- 16 intermediate literature stories including: By the Great Horn Spoon, The Cay, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlotte's Web, Manic Magee, and more!
- Questions are provided in convenient reproducible question card format, perfect for engaging cooperative questioning and analytical thinking.
- Includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions.
- Activities include Fan-N-Pick, Spin-N-Think, Mix Pair Discuss, RallyRobin, and more!
Use your students’ favorite literature books to develop their higher-level thinking skills. Includes over two hundred questions on favorites such as: Charlotte’s Web, James and the Giant Peach, Little House on the Prairie, The Great Kapok Tree, and Sarah, Plain and Tall, plus 11 others! Stimulate your students’ range of thinking skills with these ready-to-use questions: “Name the three most important reasons the animals gave the man not to cut down the Kapok tree. Why did you choose those three? If Charlotte had been a city spider instead of a farm spider, how would her life have been different? What might happen in the sequel to the story?” Questions are provided in convenient, reproducible, question card format, perfect for the engaging, cooperative questioning activities provided. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Release the power of higher-level thinking through your students’ favorite books!
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Light the fires of your students' minds with this series of question books. In each book you will find questions, questions, and more questions for 16 of the most popular themes and topics for that subject. But these are no ordinary questions. They are the important kind—higher-level thinking questions—the kind that stretch your students' minds; the kind that tap your students' natural curiosity about the world; the kind that rack your students' brains; the kind that sharpen your students' thinking skills. Inside you will find a seemingly endless array of intriguing, mind-stretching questions and activities. Each book is spilling over with questions designed to engage and develop the spectrum of higher-level thinking skills. Add an invaluable higher-level thinking component to what you already teach. Make learning exciting, more engaging, and more effective. You can almost see your students' brains growing as they discuss these questions, share their thinking journal entries, and ask and answer their own higher-level thinking questions. Use these books to easily integrate critical and creative thinking skills into your daily lessons. Give your students the most valuable skills they can acquire—the desire to think, and the power to question.