Worksheets and No Prep Teaching Resources Critical Thinking

Reasoning Activities, Worksheets, Printables, and Lesson Plans

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Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

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Read and Color

The Reasons for the Seasons

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Rhyme Cards

Reason Out Rhymes

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Reading Comprehensions
     Reasons for Regions (Grades 3-4)
     The Reason for the Seasons (Grades 5-7)
     The "Maine" Reason to Pick Your Teeth (Grades 7-9)

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Finish the Story
     Rhyme or Reason (Grade 5-6)

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Read and Color Books

Independence Day

Introduction to December

Gray Wolf's Guide to the Grasslands

Lizzy visits the National Zoo

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Reading Comprehension Lesson Ideas

Biographies (Grades 6-8)      Jean Piaget: Taking Children's Thinking Seriously      The Life of Jean Piaget Daily Themes (Grades 6-8)      The Benefits of Board Games Miscellaneous (Grades 1-2)      Why Do Adults Work? (Grades 3-5)      A Collection of Best Friends      ABCs and ZZZs      Alvaro's Kidnapping: A Crime in Colombia      Always Before Me!      An E-mail from Dharma the Dust Storm      And Called It Macaroni      Apples Aren't Always Red      Avi      Aye-ayes      Cards for Mother's Day      Cheetahs      Christmas Shopping      Color Me Blue      Cookie-Cutter Sharks      Corn Snakes      Disc Golf Cap      Flyways, Not Freeways!      Food Webs      Freddy for President      Glaciers: Moving Rivers of Ice      Gloves and Mittens      Greenland Sharks      Hot Springs National Park      How Are You Intelligent?      How to Catch (or Not to Catch!) a Cold      It's a Mystery!      Jimmy's Hat      Keith Interviews Ana, the Imperial Amazon Parrot      Looking at Earth from Space      Lumpy Rug Day      Lunar Rainbow      Lynx      Mermaids      Mystery of the Letter      No Surprises in Your Water      Oregon National Historic Trail      Putting on a New Face with Face Painting      Redwood National and State Parks      Special Shoes      Summer Movie Spectacular, Part 1      Thanks and Cheer      The Allowance Advance      The Fennec Fox      The Great American Smokeout      The Heritage Farm      The Mystery of Tyrannosaurus Rex's Short Arms      The Statue of Liberty      The Sun and the Seasons      Too Busy for Breakfast      Traveling - Make Your Travel Plans      What Has Feathers, but Cannot Fly?      What Is Geography?      What's That On Your Head?      Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?      Why Do Wolves Howl? (Grades 6-8)      A Brief History of Hygiene      A Day in the Park      Africa      Baseball Cards      Benjamin Bloom      Best Friends Animal Society      Beware of the Coastal Invaders!      Bird Flu      Candle Making      Caroline B. Cooney      Children in the White House      Children in the White House      Children in the White House      Circulatory System      Courage - Ain't I a Woman?      Earth's Ice Ages      Endangered Animals!      Ethanol      Everglades National Park      Father's Day      Flag out of Time      Gorillas      Hawaiian Monk Seals      Hayley Wickenheiser: Commander of the Ice      How Do Airbags Work?      How Do Electric Eels Produce Electricity?      How Do Fish Swim in Schools?      How Do Frogs Croak?      How Do Guide Dogs Do Their Job?      How Do Hydroelectric Dams Work?      How Do Spray Cans Work?      How Does a Radar Gun Work?      How Does a Sewing Machine Work?      How Does Your Boat Float?      Ice Age Mammals: The Woolly Rhino      Inaugural Address      Inaugural Balls      Indian Territory Becomes the State of Oklahoma      Jack Hays, Texas Ranger      Jake and Jackie Learn about Etiquette, Part 2      Javed in Pakistan: A Problem with Illiteracy      Javed's Schooling in Pakistan      Jawahir Suffers in Somalia      Jerome Bruner      Jon Bohmer: The Kyoto Box      Kidnapping in Colombia      Leap Year 2008      Lemmings      Life with a Wallaby      Llama Love      Mesa Verde National Park      Mexico's Rainforest      Moliére      Mount Rainier National Park      Mount Rushmore      Mucus, Boogers, and Snot - How GROSS!      Mystery of the Missing Gold, Part Three      Mystery of the Missing Gold, Part Two      Niagara Falls      Noah McCullough, Author      Optometrists      Permanent Human Colony      Persuade Me!      Pikas      Plant Cells: Cells With Walls      Pufferfish      Recreation Therapists      Red Blood Cells      Reform in Armenia: Mikhail's Story      Romania: The Story of Irgiz and the Abandoned Children      Sacred River, Dirty River      Sea Fireflies      Sir Francis Bacon      Six Flags Over Texas      Skeletal System - Healthy Bones      Sombreros      Suffering in Somalia: Jawahir's Story      Taekwondo      Tanith Belbin's Story: May I Have this Ice Dance?      The Art of Face Painting      The Civil War and Inflation      The Dr. Seuss Memorial Sculpture Garden      The Endangered Species Act      The Galapagos Islands      The History of Red Ribbon Week      The iPhone Arrives      The Kiwi      The Kyoto Treaty      The Loss of the Honeybees      The Mystery of the Hidden Photograph, Part Two      The Mystery of the Newspaper Bandit      The North Wind and the Sun      The Wolf      Three R's to Help the Earth      Tides      Track and Field Beijing Olympics 2008      Trail of Tears, Part 2      Tuatara      Warrior's Heart, Part 1 - Ira Hayes      What Causes Weather?      What Is a Foreclosure?      What Is Pi?      What Stinks? Halitosis or Bad Breath      What Substances Are In Tobacco Smoke?      What's Under the Ocean Waves?      Where Have the Bats Gone?      Where Have the Honeybees Gone?      Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge? The Emily W. Roebling Story      Wikipedia (Grades 9-12)      "Silent Night"- A Christmas Carol      Earth's Oldest Animals?      Iroquois - The Six Nations      Saki      The Loss of Domestic Animals: A World Problem      The Marva Collins Story: "A Brilliant Child Inside Every Student"      The Romans in Britain: Hadrian's Wall Stories (Grades 3-5)      Acting Like Angels      Dinosaur Expedition      Grapefruit Bowling Geography (Grades 3-5)      Andrew Johnson - 17th President      Cote d'Ivoire - Geography      Falkland Islands - Geography      Fiji - Geography      Georgia - Geography      Lebanon - Geography      Malaysia - Traditions and Daily life      Poland - Geography      The Eruption of Mount St. Helens      Tournament of Roses Parade      Ukraine - Geography (Grades 6-8)      Ecuador - Culture      France - History      Nepal - Culture      The Sioux      Ukraine - History      Vietnam - Culture (Grades 9-12)      Paraguay - History      Puerto Rico - History

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Finish the Story
     Hockey Practice (Grade 2-3)
     100 Days and Counting (Grade 3)
     A Special Halloween (Grade 3)
     Disappearing Apples (Grade 3)
     A Letter from the Klondike (Grade 3-4)
     The Werewolf Disorder (Grade 3-5)
     The Invisible Girl (Grade 3-6)
     A Lucky Find (Grade 3-6)
     My Friend Chris (Grade 4-5)
     A Smokeless World (Grade 4-6)
     Whose Side Are You On? (Grade 4-6)
     A New Holiday to Celebrate (Grade 4-6)
     The Great American Smokeout (Grade 6-8)

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What Would You Do?
     Wildberries: Made for Munching or Make You Sick? (Grade 2-4)
     Good Touch? Bad Touch? (Grade 3-6)
     A Labor Day Dispute (Grade 3-6)
     Is St. Patrick's Day Lucky For You? (Grade 3-6)
     Stop that Cell Phone! (Grade 3-6)
     Thank You, I Really (Don't) Love It! (Grade 3-6)
     A Note-able Change (Grade 4-6)
     Will You Watch My Puppy? (Grade 4-6)
     Friends Wanted: Please Apply (Grade 4-8)
     Stereotype or Prejudice? (Grade 5-8)
     It's Against the Law (Grade 6-8)
     No Time for Homework (Grade 6-8)

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Reader's Theater Scripts and Plays
     The Runaway Gingerbread People (Grades 1-3)
     Tactful Tori (Grades 3-5)
     Not Just about Us (Grades 4-5)
     Making Good Choices (Grades 4-7)

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Reluctant Reader Books
     Doggie Lingo (Grade 2-6)
     Chang's Chinese New Year (Grade 3-4)
     Oops! More Wild and Wacky Sports Injuries (Grade 3-4)
     P.U. Plants (Grade 3-4)
     History of Hip Hop (Grade 3-5)
     Marculus Has Pet Problems (Grade 3-6)
     Bright Lights in the Deep, Dark Sea (Grade 4-5)
     It's All in the Numbers: Wild and Wacky Number Truths (Grade 4-5)
     Play Hard, Stay Safe (Grade 4-5)
     Robert Ballard and the Search for the Titanic (Grade 4-5)
     The Myth of the Man-eating Monster (Grade 4-5)
     C Is For Christmas (Grade 4-6)
     Hall of Records at Mount Rushmore (Grade 4-6)
     Let's Go Fly a Kite! (Grade 4-6)
     M Is for Map (Grade 4-6)
     Rent-a-Genie, Book One (Grade 4-6)
     Rocky Mountain National Park Adventure (Grade 4-6)
     Roller Coasters (Grade 4-6)
     B Is for Baseball (Grade 5-6)
     Derek Jeter (Grade 5-6)
     Jennifer Hudson (Grade 5-6)
     Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King! (Grade 5-6)
     Classical Music 1750-1820 (Grade 5-7)
     Level Up: The Making of a Video Game (Grade 5-7)
     Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize (Grade 5-8)
     Endangered Animals (Grade 5-8)
     Pirates: Fact or Fiction? (Grade 5-8)
     Totem Poles (Grade 5-8)

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Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking

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