Can a student do experiments on his own? Would he know the right way to conduct a process using the scientific method? What is a hypothesis? These and other questions are addressed in Bill Nye the Science Guy: Do-it-yourself Science, as Bill Nye teaches students independent thinking. His series always includes experiments that can be done at home, using easily found items. In this show, he encourages students to raise questions, make educated guesses, and test their hypotheses.
Document-Based Questions for Reading Comprehension and Critical Thinking (Grade 3)
Give students practice in answering the types of questions used in standardized tests. High interest stories, primary source documents, and comprehension questions encourage the use of higher order thinking skills.
There are five topic areas with six or seven lessons in each. Each lesson consists of three pages: a reading passage, a related document, and an assessment practice page containing multiple choice, true-false-explain, and short-answer document-based questions. The students respond to the document-based questions based on the information gleaned from the passage plus its related document.
24 Nonfiction Passages for Test Practice Grade 4-5
Boost students’ reading comprehension and critical thinking skills using all kinds of nonfiction. From how-to guides and letters to news stories and advertisements, these high-interest, ready-to-reproduce nonfiction passages and companion questions will give your students the practice they need to understand the information they see and read every day—and succeed on standardized tests.
Read-Aloud Plays: Ancient World (Grades 5 & Up)
Students can explore everyday life in the ancient world with these engaging read-aloud plays. Set in Babylonia, Egypt, Phoenicia, Assyria, Greece, Kush, Rome, and China, each play also includes background information, creative extension activities, thought-provoking discussion questions and writing prompts, as well as literature links for both students and teachers.
Read Think & AnswerThis book will be a help to students who are working for the new English paper of the Lower Cambridge Certificate – particularly as the exercises consist of two kinds and include multiple-choice questions as well as the usual form of comprehension questions. The multiple-choice questions provide a quick vocabulary, it can be used for bringing out certain teaching points in the vocabulary and structures illustrated in the passages. The vocabulary is generally restricted to the2, 075 word-level in the General Service list. intermediate level
