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Multiple Perspectives: Building Critical Thinking Skills
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| Grades | 4 – 5 |
| Lesson Plan Type | Unit |
| Estimated Time | Eight–nine 30–40-minute sessions |
| Lesson Author |
Columbus, New Jersey |
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LESSON PLANS
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Recurring Lesson
Charting Characters for a More Complete Understanding of the Story
Character Perspective Charting allows students to compare multiple characters and their points of view to better understand a story.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Teaching Point of View With Two Bad Ants
Students will be crawling all over this assignment when they use illustrations and text to learn about life from a bug’s point of view.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Blurring Genre: Exploring Fiction and Nonfiction with Diary of a Worm
After reading several examples of how a published author incorporates facts in fiction writing, students research a topic of their choice and write fictional diary entries that incorporate factual information.
Grades K – 2 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Investigating Animals: Using Nonfiction for Inquiry-based Research
Inspired by their curiosity about animals, students work together to research an animal of their choice and present the information they gather to an authentic audience.
Grades 1 – 3 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Seeing Multiple Perspectives: An Introductory Critical Literacy Lesson
Students consider the perspectives of central but silent characters in Stevie (Steptoe, 1968), gaining much deeper understandings of the story and realizing that every story truly gives a partial account.
STUDENT INTERACTIVES
Grades 3 – 6 | Student Interactive | Inquiry & Analysis
Supporting inquiry-based research projects, the Animal Inquiry interactive invites elementary students to explore animal facts and habitats using writing prompts to guide and record their findings.