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matching Secondary (9-12)
Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Language Arts
Mystery Stories
This set includes 16 question cards on Mystery Stories. The questions are all open-ended, higher-level thinking questions to get your students to think deeply about Mystery Stories. For example, “Do1
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This set includes 16 question cards on Mystery Stories. The questions are all open-ended, higher-level thinking questions to get your students to think deeply about Mystery Stories. For example, “Do you think the events in the book could really happen? Why?” The questions are ideal for thinking, discussion, and writing. This set includes a variety of engaging team, pair, class, and individual activities to make the most of your question cards. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Go beyond facts. Develop meaning. Promote critical and creative thinking!
Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Language Arts
Prewriting: Biography/Autobiography
This set includes 16 question cards on Prewriting: Biography/Autobiography. The questions are all open-ended, higher-level thinking questions to get your students to think deeply about Prewriting: Bi1
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This set includes 16 question cards on Prewriting: Biography/Autobiography. The questions are all open-ended, higher-level thinking questions to get your students to think deeply about Prewriting: Biography/Autobiography. For example, “How is the physical description of your subject important to his/her life story?” The questions are ideal for thinking, discussion, and writing. This set includes a variety of engaging team, pair, class, and individual activities to make the most of your question cards. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Go beyond facts. Develop meaning. Promote critical and creative thinking!
Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Language Arts
Prewriting: Stories
This set includes 16 question cards on Prewriting: Stories. The questions are all open-ended, higher-level thinking questions to get your students to think deeply about Prewriting: Stories. For examp1
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This set includes 16 question cards on Prewriting: Stories. The questions are all open-ended, higher-level thinking questions to get your students to think deeply about Prewriting: Stories. For example, “What are two possible solutions to the main problem in the story?” The questions are ideal for thinking, discussion, and writing. This set includes a variety of engaging team, pair, class, and individual activities to make the most of your question cards. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Go beyond facts. Develop meaning. Promote critical and creative thinking!
Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Language Arts
Prewriting: Mysteries
This set includes 16 question cards on Prewriting: Mysteries. The questions are all open-ended, higher-level thinking questions to get your students to think deeply about Prewriting: Mysteries. For e1
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This set includes 16 question cards on Prewriting: Mysteries. The questions are all open-ended, higher-level thinking questions to get your students to think deeply about Prewriting: Mysteries. For example, “How will you capture the reader’s attention in the beginning of the story?” The questions are ideal for thinking, discussion, and writing. This set includes a variety of engaging team, pair, class, and individual activities to make the most of your question cards. Also includes reproducible prompts for journal writing and activities for student-generated questions. Go beyond facts. Develop meaning. Promote critical and creative thinking!
Classbuilding Questions
Icebreakers
Students love to interact with classmates. Leverage that need to talk into productive classbuilding. This set includes 20 Icebreakers question cards. The questions are designed to break the ice and w1
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Students love to interact with classmates. Leverage that need to talk into productive classbuilding. This set includes 20 Icebreakers question cards. The questions are designed to break the ice and warm up students for talking to classmates. For example, “Do you have a nickname? If yes, what is it? How did you get it? If no, what nickname would you like? Why?” As students are up, interacting with classmates over these provocative questions, they get to know one another and develop respect. Strangers become friends. Classmates become more caring. Your class is a much more fun and safe place to be and to learn. Also includes two Journal Writing worksheets, highlighting from the question cards. Questions are also great for teambuilding, energizers, and brain breaks.
Match Mine: Language Builder
Making Sentences
Download this cooperative barrier game to teach your students vocabulary and communication skills using the structure Match Mine. Each partner receives a game board with a sheet of lined paper and wo1
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Download this cooperative barrier game to teach your students vocabulary and communication skills using the structure Match Mine. Each partner receives a game board with a sheet of lined paper and word game pieces to place on the game board. Partners sit on opposite sides of a barrier so they can’t see each other’s game board or game pieces. Partner A arranges the word game pieces on the lined paper of the game board. Then, using only verbal communication, Partner A describes to Partner B which word goes where in the sentence so they can make a match. For example, “Put the word ‘the’ first to start the sentence.” When they think they have a match, they compare arrangements and celebrate. This set teaches making sentences using common vocabulary. Match Mine is a fun and cooperative way to develop language, communication, cooperation, and perspective-taking skills.
Match Mine: Language Builder
School Supplies
Download this cooperative barrier game to teach your students vocabulary and communication skills using the structure Match Mine. Each partner receives a game board with a backpack and school supply1
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Download this cooperative barrier game to teach your students vocabulary and communication skills using the structure Match Mine. Each partner receives a game board with a backpack and school supply game pieces to place on the game board. Partners sit on opposite sides of a barrier so they can’t see each other’s game board or game pieces. Partner A arranges the school supply game pieces on the area of the backpack on the game board. Then, using only verbal communication, Partner A describes to Partner B which school supply goes on each area of the backpack so they can make a match. For example, “Put the tape in the upper side pocket on the left.” When they think they have a match, they compare arrangements and celebrate. This set teaches common school supplies vocabulary such as: compass, stapler, marker, etc. Match Mine is a fun and cooperative way to develop language, communication, cooperation, and perspective-taking skills.
Match Mine: Language Builder
Making Words
Download this cooperative barrier game to teach your students vocabulary and communication skills using the structure Match Mine. Each partner receives a game board with a sheet of lined paper and le1
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Download this cooperative barrier game to teach your students vocabulary and communication skills using the structure Match Mine. Each partner receives a game board with a sheet of lined paper and letter game pieces to place on the game board. Partners sit on opposite sides of a barrier so they can’t see each other’s game board or game pieces. Partner A arranges the letter game pieces on each line of the game board. Then, using only verbal communication, Partner A describes to Partner B which letters go on each line to form words so they can make a match. For example, “Put the letter ‘t’ on the top line to start the first word.” When they think they have a match, they compare arrangements and celebrate. This set teaches common letters. Match Mine is a fun and cooperative way to develop language, communication, cooperation, and perspective-taking skills.
Same-Different: Holidays
Christmas
Students sit on opposite sides of a barrier to discover what's the same and what's different in two carefully illustrated Christmas pictures. Same-Different is a great game to develop analytic thinki1
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Students sit on opposite sides of a barrier to discover what's the same and what's different in two carefully illustrated Christmas pictures. Same-Different is a great game to develop analytic thinking skills and communication skills. Students can’t see each other’s pictures so they must scan their own picture carefully, ask questions, describe details, and take the role of the other. For example, “The elf in my picture is hanging a photo of Santa Claus on the wall. Is your elf also hanging a photo?” The game is easy to set up and play. Includes instructions, two Christmas illustrations, a recording sheet, and the answer key for the differences in the two pictures.
Classbuilding Questions
Getting to Know You
Students love to interact with classmates. Leverage that need to talk into productive classbuilding. This set includes 20 Getting to Know You question cards. The questions will have your students tal1
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Students love to interact with classmates. Leverage that need to talk into productive classbuilding. This set includes 20 Getting to Know You question cards. The questions will have your students talking about themselves! For example, “What scares you? Tell about something that frightened you.” As students are up, interacting with classmates over these provocative questions, they get to know one another and develop respect. Strangers become friends. Classmates become more caring. Your class is a much more fun and safe place to be and to learn. Also includes two Journal Writing worksheets, highlighting from the question cards. Questions are also great for teambuilding, energizers, and brain breaks.