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Reading Detective Beginning Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension

by Cheryl Block, Carrie Beckwith, M. A. Hockett, and David White

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Description

Grades 3-4: Beginning Standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills children need for exceptional reading comprehension.The activities are especially effective at helping children understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing interferences, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.