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Reading, Thinking: Book 3

Using higher order thinking and multiple intelligences in reading

  • By
  • Helen Robinson

Reproducible comprehension and inferential activities plus higher order thinking activities for year 5 students.

Units of work address a wide range of both factual and literary texts and questions ask students to remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate and create. Additional activities encourage open-ended questioning techniques, discovery learning, freedom of choice, group interaction and variation in pacing.

Ages: 9-10 | Pages: 88 | Code: TS0197 | ISBN: 9781921454899

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Contents

Acknowledgments4
Introduction
Text types5
Bloom’s taxonomy5
Gardner’s multiple intelligences7
The reading and thinking units8
Extension activities8
Units
1 Narrative - The First Fire10
2 Procedure - Mars Bar Slice12
3 Recount - Reported Sighting of Bigfoot14
4 Description - Bullies16
5 Report - Backpack Facts18
6 Explanation - A Family of Planets20
7 Discussion - Should Students Make the Rules?22
8 Review - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets24
9 Exposition - Say No! to Bullying26
10 Narrative - The Enormous Nose28
11 Procedure - Stress Balls30
12 Recount - Old Headache Remedy ...32
13 Description - Harry Potter Quiz34
14 Report - Fast Food Facts36
15 Explanation - Tsunamis38
16 Discussion - Pocket Money40
17 Review - Cranium42
18 Exposition - Up in Smoke44
19 Narrative - St Nicholas Meets the Population Explosion46
20 Procedure - Help Your Friend with Asthma48
21 Recount - Move Over Boys50
22 Description - Common Ground52
23 Report - What is ADD?54
24 Explanation - Anxiety56
25 Discussion - Television, the Good, Bad & Ugly58
26 Review - Number the Stars/Rowan of Rin60
27 Exposition - Piles and Piles of Garbage62
Extension activities
Student-centred comprehension – question stems64
Multiple intelligence matrixes/activities70
Multiple intelligence inventory78
Answers80