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Read Write Think: Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension Lesson PlanRead Write Think: Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension Lesson Plan
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Read Write Think: Book Sorting: Using Observation and Comprehension

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Critical thinking, comprehension and analysis skills are the focus of this physical activity. Good beginning to teaching different ways of looking at things.

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CCSS: Adaptable
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children's literature, critical thinking, interpretation
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analysis, beginning literary criticism, categorizing, comparing books, discriminating between choices, learning to critique, literary criticism theory, reading instruction, sort by category, sorting books, teaching elementary students literary criticism, k.rv.2.2 identify and sort pictures of objects into categories, ncte, oh.ela-literacy.l.1.5b define words by category and by one or more key attributes, oh.ela-literacy.l.k.5a sort common objects into categories (e.g., shapes, foods) to gain a sense of the concepts the categories represent., oh.ela-literacy.ri.1.8 identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text., readwritethink: book sorting: using observation and comprehension, readwritethink, venn diagram, evaluating
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional
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L.K.5.a RI.1.8 L.1.5.b L.1.5.a RL.1.10 RI.K.9 L.2.3.a SL.1.4 RI.1.10 RI.1.7 RI.2.6 RI.1.9 RL.1.5 RL.2.9 L.2.1.a SL.K.3 RF.K.1.a

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