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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.

CTC: Reading Detective and Homeschool Planet

These lesson plans applied within your Homeschool Planet planner will help you stay on track in your CTC: Reading Detective course.

What’s Included: 

  • 1 school year lesson plan, covering all the assignments for your Reading Detectives curriculum.
  • Reading Detective Lesson Plan Package includes all 4 lesson plans!
  • Check boxes for your students to check off as they complete their assignments, giving them a sense of accomplishment and you a permanent record of their achievement.
  • Automatic rescheduling of assignments when “life happens”
  • “Daily Digest” email reminders to help you and your child stay on track
  • Grade tracking to recognize or reward completion of work.
  • Attendance records for states where this is required.
  • Extensive reports to help you manage grades, attendance, activities, and more.
  • Automatic lesson plan updates as needed, with enhancements, link updates, etc.
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Notes: 

  • You decide whether to apply ongoing updates.
  • Curriculum is not included and should be purchased separately. Links are provided to purchase curriculum when available.

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Reading Detective Lesson Plan Package For Grades 3 - 12
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Lesson Plan Package Includes:
Reading Detective Beginning
Reading Detective A1
Reading Detective B1
Reading Detective RX
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Reading Detective Beginning For Grades 3 - 4
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471506: Reading Detective Beginning, Grades 3-4 Click here for the Reading Detective Beginning curriculum

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. Beginning level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill. Grades 3-4.

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Reading Detective A1 For Grades 5 - 6
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471507: Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book A1 Grade 5-6Click here for the Reading Detective A1 curriculum

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. For Grades 5-6.

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Reading Detective B1 For Grades 7 - 8
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471508: Reading Detective: Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension Book B1 Grade 7-8 Click here for the Reading Detective B1 curriculum

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.

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Reading Detective RX For Grades 6 - 12
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471511: Reading Detective RXClick here for the Reading Detective RX curriculum

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. For Grades 6-12+, reading level is 4th-5th grade.

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