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Critical Thinking Company
Reading Detective A1
Table of Contents
TEACHER INTRODUCTION
Teacher Overview
Skills Matrices
STUDENT SKILLS LESSONS
What is Reading Detective
Making Inference
Making Generalizations
Using Figurative Language
Developing Vocabulary Using Context
PRETESTS
Fiction Pretest: A “Dog-gone” Day
Nonfiction Pretest: Quartz: Our Most Common Mineral
LITERATURE EXCERPTS and ACTIVITY PAGES
Fudge-a-mania
Mr. Popper’s Penguins
Maniac Magee
Owls in the Family
“Rikki-tikki Tavi” from The Jungle Book
Where the Red Fern Grows
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Blue Willow
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Charlie’s House
FICTIONAL SHORT STORIES and ACTIVITY PAGES
Iggy
Caught White-Handed
Letter from the Mother Lode
Bad Reputation
A Shot at Problem Solving
Capsized!
A Uniform Approach
The Bear and the Bees: A Fable
My First Alien Sighting
Farm Girl
Riddle Time
Pet Overpopulation
A Tale of Two Boarders
Little Squirt, Big Squirt
No Show
Truth or Dare
Case of the Missing Diamond
Buttered Up
It’s All Downhill
Teacher Turns Eleven
NONFICTION ARTICLES and ACTIVITY PAGES
“Pokey-pines”
Making “Sense” Out of Poetry
Defining Geometry
Cesar Chavez: a Biography
How to Make Dough Ornaments
All Around the Sun
What Do Owls Eat?
Comanche Horsemen
Blowing Hot and Cold
The Challenger Disaster
Little Green Food Factories
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Almonds for Sale
The Food Chain
Who Was Benjamin Banneker?
The Land Down Under
Dress Like an Egyptian
Natural Rhythm
Jackie Robinson, All-star
Magellan’s Voyage Around the World
POSTTESTS
Fiction Posttest: Half Dozen to Go
Nonfiction Posttest: The Good in Forest Fires
ANSWER KEYS
GLOSSARY
LITERATURE CITATIONS
SAMPLE ACTIVITY FROM READING DETECTIVE™ B
 
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