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Help your students develop important 21st-century skills with engaging critical-thinking and language arts activities!

The 40 fun, imaginative lessons in Clues to Comprehension, Grades 5-6 use downloadable interactive charts and reproducible practice pages to help students develop important thinking and language arts skills. Students are engaged by riddles on a range of topics, from "nursery rhyme characters" and "jobs" to "household objects" and more.

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Available titles: Grades 1-2, Grades 3-4, Grades 5-6

Help your students develop important critical-thinking and language arts skills with 40 engaging and explorative activities!

The dynamic lessons in Clues to Comprehension use downloadable interactive posters and reproducible practice pages to help students think creatively, logically, and critically to solve riddles. Along with providing practice for important thinking skills, activities also build reading comprehension, develop new vocabulary, and present students with practice on decoding and structural analysis. With so much in one book, it's a must-have teacher resource for developing the important 21st-century skills students need for success!

You'll love Clues to Comprehension because it:

• covers a broad range of thinking skills. Activities cover a diverse selection of thinking skills, from brainstorming and mental imagery to patterning and deductive reasoning.
• contains 40 activities that promote genuine thinking. Activities ask students to employ various thinking skills to organize, interpret, and understand information in order to solve riddles. As they gain confidence using the skills introduced in familiar situations based on real life, they'll begin to apply them to achieve success in academic contexts, as well.
• features interactive charts you can download for free online. 44 interactive charts provide a fun way to help students approach each lesson. Charts can be used for independent practice at a computer, or, with the help of a projection system, can add an interactive twist to a class lesson.
• includes teacher pages that make implementing lessons easy and enjoyable. Each activity is accompanied by guidelines for modeling and practicing the thinking strategies, so all the tools you need are ready to go, with no prep.
• is the perfect resource for free-time, enrichment, and homework activities. Keep students actively involved in learning by providing them with activities that are rich in instructional value—without taking up instructional time.
• serves as a valuable test-prep tool. The thinking strategies introduced in Clues to Comprehension are an increasingly important set of skills that students will need in order to perform successfully on state assessments.
• is correlated to state standards.

The lessons in Clues to Comprehension provide practice in:

• thinking critically and strategically
  Skills practiced include brainstorming, analyzing, observing, comparing and contrasting, and problem solving
• reading comprehension
  Skills practiced include drawing conclusions, making inferences, generalizing, analyzing, evaluating, synthesizing, and more.
• vocabulary development
  Skills practiced include categorizing, comparing, indentifying antonyms and synonyms, and more.

Unit Walk-Through:
Each of the 40 units presents students with a step-by-step process for approaching each riddle.

1. Use Picture Clues
   Students learn how to use non-text clues to speculate about the riddle's answer. The teacher's guide provides ideas for encouraging students to use logic and deductive reasoning to direct their thought processes.
2. Text Clues
   As students read the text clues, they're asked to revise their speculation based on new information.
3. Confirm Solutions and Share Information
   Before students answer the riddle, a class discussion provides further opportunities for them to support their reasoning using both picture and text clues.
4. Build Vocabulary and Concepts
   Students utilize graphic organizers to organize, interpret, and understand information.

44 downloadable interactive posters provide extra support that's extra fun!
Full-color interactive posters provide students with an engaging way to approach each lesson.

Provide your students with thinking skills practice that promotes real-world application and genuine thinking! Use the engaging problem-solving activities in Clues to Comprehension today!

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