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Critical Thinking Company

Reading Detective B1

Table of Contents


TEACHER INTRODUCTION

Teacher Overview
Skills Matrices

STUDENT SKILLS LESSONS

What is Reading Detective?
Making Inferences
Making Generalizations
Using Figurative Language
Using Literary Devices
Developing Vocabulary Using Context
Determining Fact vs. Opinion
Summarizing Information

PRETESTS

Fiction Pretest: Billy Brussels Sprouts
Nonfiction Pretest: The Hidden Cost of Buried Treasure

LITERATURE EXCERPTS and ACTIVITY PAGES

The Cay
Sparrow Hawk Red
El Güero
The Moon by Night
The Giver
Under the Blood-Red Sun
The View from Saturday
The Trolley to Yesterday
“How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin” from Just So Stories
Face to Face
The Bronze Bow

FICTIONAL SHORT STORIES and ACTIVITY PAGES

Head Chef at 14
Love from Camp Gitchigoomi
Race for Pepper
Sea Otter Attack
He Said, She Said
My Most Embarrassing Day
The Game Winner
A Test of Friendship
Old Woman of the Oak
Middle School: First Day Survival
A Dramatic Plea
The Way of the Wild
Amazon Adventure
Sketches of Summer
15 Minutes of Fame
A Flood of Help
Diving In
The Comeback Can
The Prime Suspect
A Week in Ancient Greece

NONFICTION ARTICLES and ACTIVITY PAGES

Put Your Heart into It
Galileo’s Vision
Goalsetting
The Long and Short of Color
Making Apple Pie
Making Mountains
Researching the Renaissance
Soccer’s Deadly Weapon: Mia Hamm
Measuring Time
ElectroMagic
Sports Stats
Secrets of Special Effects
Emperor Kublai Khan
Is the Earth Heating Up?
Gimme Some Latitude! (and a little longitude wouldn’t hurt)
Finding the Career for You
Training for the Ballet
From Superman to X-Men
Secret Codes
The Making of the Constitution

POSTTESTS

Fiction Posttest: Treasure Island
Nonfiction Posttest: How Money Has Changed

ANSWER KEYS

GLOSSARY

LITERATURE CITATIONS


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