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CTC: Reading Detective

Seamlessly add your Reading Detective curriculum from The Critical Thinking Company to your homeschool schedule with these lesson plans for use with your Homeschool Planet subscription. Reading Detective’s standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension.

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  • The publisher-recommended course of study
  • 1 school year lesson plan, covering all the assignments for your Reading Detectives curriculum.
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  • Reading Detective Lesson Plan Bundle includes all 4 lesson plans!
  • Automatic lesson plan updates as needed, with enhancements, link updates, etc.
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Reading Detective Lesson Plan Bundle For Grades 3 - 12
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Lesson Plan Bundle includes:
Reading Detective Beginning
Reading Detective A1
Reading Detective B1
Reading Detective RX

The curriculum for this Reading Detective Beginning lesson plan can be found by using the following link~

471506: Reading Detective Beginning, Grades 3-4

Reading Detective Beginning, Grades 3-4
By Critical Thinking Company

Reading Detective's standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, determining cause and effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.

Students read and analyze short literature excerpts and stories that include fiction and nonfiction content. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence-level evidence to support their answers.

Beginning level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill. Includes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards. Grades 3-4. 216 pages.

The curriculum for this Reading Detective A1 plan can be found by using the following link~

471507: Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book A1 Grade 5-6Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book A1 Grade 5-6
By Critical Thinking Company

Help your students become better readers and critical thinkers with this collection of high-interest, low-readability stories. Stories are comprised of non-fiction articles on a variety of subjects as well as fiction excerpts and short stories; short-answer or multiple-choice questions follow, helping students use the featured skill. Students will learn to go beyond simple recalls of material, but instead analyze it and support their answers with specific information from the text. Pre and post tests are also included for general assessment of student skills. 211 pages, answer keys included in the back. For Grades 5-6.

The curriculum for this Reading Detective B1 lesson plan can be found by using the following link~

471508: Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book B1 Grade 7-8 Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book B1 Grade 7-8
By Critical Thinking Company

Reading Detective uses higher-order thinking and standards-based content to teach students superior reading comprehension skills and help them excel on state tests. The in-depth reading analysis required by the series guarantees results. The activities use higher order thinking to develop reading skills by requiring student to answer multiple choice and short response questions then provide sentence level evidence for their answers. The beginning level introduces reading and analysis skills through single-skill units such as defining vocabulary, using context clues, identifying theme, and so on. Mixed skills activities are presented in the final unit. Each reproducible book contains goals, pretests and posttests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and answers that include evidence and detailed explanations of the evidence.

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Reading Detective Beginning For Grades 3 - 4
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The curriculum for this Reading Detective Beginning lesson plan can be found by using the following link~

471506: Reading Detective Beginning, Grades 3-4

Reading Detective Beginning, Grades 3-4
By Critical Thinking Company

Reading Detective's standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, determining cause and effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.

Students read and analyze short literature excerpts and stories that include fiction and nonfiction content. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence-level evidence to support their answers.

Beginning level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill.

Includes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards. Grades 3-4. 216 pages.

Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information.
$4.95

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Reading Detective A1 For Grades 5 - 6
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The curriculum for this Reading Detective A1 plan can be found by using the following link~

471507: Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book A1 Grade 5-6Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book A1 Grade 5-6
By Critical Thinking Company

Help your students become better readers and critical thinkers with this collection of high-interest, low-readability stories. Stories are comprised of non-fiction articles on a variety of subjects as well as fiction excerpts and short stories; short-answer or multiple-choice questions follow, helping students use the featured skill. Students will learn to go beyond simple recalls of material, but instead analyze it and support their answers with specific information from the text. Pre and post tests are also included for general assessment of student skills. 211 pages, answer keys included in the back. For Grades 5-6.

Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information.
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Reading Detective B1 For Grades 7 - 8
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The curriculum for this Reading Detective B1 lesson plan can be found by using the following link~

471508: Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book B1 Grade 7-8 Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book B1 Grade 7-8
By Critical Thinking Company

Reading Detective uses higher-order thinking and standards-based content to teach students superior reading comprehension skills and help them excel on state tests. The in-depth reading analysis required by the series guarantees results. The activities use higher order thinking to develop reading skills by requiring student to answer multiple choice and short response questions then provide sentence level evidence for their answers. The beginning level introduces reading and analysis skills through single-skill units such as defining vocabulary, using context clues, identifying theme, and so on. Mixed skills activities are presented in the final unit. Each reproducible book contains goals, pretests and posttests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and answers that include evidence and detailed explanations of the evidence.

Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are “affiliate links.” This means we may garner a small commission at no cost to you if you choose to make a purchase. Read our full Affiliate Disclosure Statement for more information.
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Reading Detective RX For Grades 6 - 12
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The curriculum for this Reading Detective RX lesson plan can be found by using the following link~

471511: Reading Detective RXReading Detective RX
By C. Block, C. Broz, M. Hockett & D. White / Critical Thinking Company

Help your students become better readers and critical thinkers with this collection of high-interest, low-readability stories. Stories are comprised of non-fiction articles on a variety of subjects as well as fiction excerpts and short stories; short-answer or multiplechoice questions follow, helping students use the featured skill. Students will learn to go beyond simple recalls of material, but instead analyze it and support their answers with specific information from the text. Pre and post tests are also included for general assessment of student skills. 211 pages, answer keys included in the back. For Grades 6-12+, reading level is 4th-5th grade.

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