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Detective Fiction: Focus on Critical Thinking Lesson PlanDetective Fiction: Focus on Critical Thinking Lesson Plan
Publisher
Yale University
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4th - 8th
Subjects
21 Century Skills
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Lesson Plan

Detective Fiction: Focus on Critical Thinking

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Through the use of reading crime fiction, this lesson plan helps to refine critical thinking skills and problem solving strategies which are important for the development of 21st century skills.

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Concepts

critical thinking

Additional Tags

critical questions, critical thinking activities, critical thinking exercises, critical thinking in the classroom, critical thinking questions, critical thinking skill, critical thinking skills, critical thinking strategies, critical thought, critical-thinking skills, critical thinking lesson plan, critical thinking lesson plans, problem solving

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RI.5.7 RI.7.8

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