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The Critical Thinking Co.™

Reading Detective® Beginning, Grade 3-4

$25.99
These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students in Grades 3-4 need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at… Read more
Age Group
8-10 years
Grade Level
Grade 3-4
Material
Paper
Color
Multi
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These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students in Grades 3-4 need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping students understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations.

Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidence to support their answers. Concepts and skills covered include:

Literary Analysis Skills
• Define vocabulary using context clues
• Recognize figurative language
• Identify main idea, supporting details, and theme
• Recognize literary devices
• Identify story elements: theme, plot, setting, and characters

Reading Detective® Beginning includes the following genres:

Award-Winning Literature Excerpts
• The Barn
• Sable
• Dexter
• The Cricket in Times Square
• The Stories Huey Tells
• Sideways Stories from Wayside School
• Chocolate Fever

Stories and Articles
• Mystery
• Humor
• History
• Adventure

Nonfiction Topics
• Science
• Math
• Geography
• History
• Biography
• Inventions
• Sports

The Grades 3-4 (Beginning) level is organized into single-skills units with a concluding mixed-skills unit. Teaching Support Includes: pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards.

Key Features

  • Reading Detective's standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension
  • The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, determining cause and effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary
  • Grade 3 thru 4
  • answer guide included
  • 192 pages
Age 8-10 years
Assembly Required No
Balloon No
Battery Included N
Brand The Critical Thinking Co.™
Color Multi
Contains Aerosol No
Contains Chemicals No
Contains Pesticide/Herbicide/Fungicide No
Contains a Circuit Board No
Contains a Light Bulb No
Contains a Marble No
Contains a Small Ball No
Contains or is a Small Magnet No
Eco Friendly No
Free Flowing Liquid No
Grade Grade 3-4
Has Warranty No
Height (in) 0.700000
ISBN (Mfr Reference) 9780894557699
Is a Marble No
Is a Small Ball No
Length (in) 10.900000
Material Paper
Media Mail Eligible Yes
Package Contains 1 Book
Package Count 1
Registered with WERCS N
Regulated by the US FDA No
Sharp Points or Edges No
Small Parts No
Suitable for Consumption No
Unit of Measure EA
Vendor CRITICAL THINKING CO.
Width (in) 8.400000
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