With the Common Core Standards in place, students are being asked more and more to use critical thinking skills to analyze literary and informational text. Inference is a prime example of a critical thinking skill used in classrooms today. Students are asked to read text and analyze it by thinking deeper—way beyond the visual text. This post will provide ideas to help your students learn how to infer. First, understand that it is not a one-day lesson. I’m going…
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Critical Thinking, Reading, WritingStrategies to Teach Text-Dependent Analysis (TDA)
April 18, 2017Many states have adopted a TDA (Text Dependent Analysis) style assessment for the writing component of their state test. This type of writing style requires students to read a text or…
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Are you looking for a classroom library system that works? It can be so tough to keep everything organized in your classroom, especially the library area. To help give you some…
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I am so excited to see my post on Rachel Lynette’s site! Go to Rachel’s website: Minds In Bloom to learn more about high-level thinking activities and freebies!!!!!!…