Product Overview
From Follett
Consumable item, brief record. Contains reproducible teaching materials and lessons designed to improve science, critical thinking, reading, and writing skills in a single fifth or sixth grade classroom; and covers topics in physical, life, and earth sciences.
From the Publisher
Science Detective(r) uses topics and skills drawn from national science standards to prepare your child for more advanced science courses and new assessments that measures reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in science. Methods First, children read lessons that include a variety of charts, tables, and graphs. Then, they answer critical thinking questions to improve their understanding of the science concepts and develop their reading comprehension, and inferential and deductive thinking skills. Children can't just scan the story for answers they must carefully analyze and synthesize the information from the text and the charts, tables, and graphs to explain and support their answers. Teaching Support Includes teacher and student introductions, a chart of topics and key ideas to help select activities, and detailed answer