Editor in Chief improves students’ grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and attention to detail using a standards-based thinking approach rather than drill and practice. This effective method teaches students to carefully analyze and edit stories that contain errors in writing mechanics and story details. The stories involve mixed-skills practice, starting with easier errors and becoming more challenging as students become adept at the editing process. Students identify and circle errors in each story. Then they insert, modify, or delete punctuation, words, and short phrases to make corrections. An editing checklist and annotated guide to grammar, usage, and punctuation are provided to help focus students’ thinking and allow them to match their answers to applicable rules. Detailed answers are also included.

Editor in Chief A2

Cheryl Block

Carrie Beckwith

Margaret Hockett

David, White

The Critical Thinking Co.

Editor in Chief B2

Teen & Young Adult

Education & Reference

Encourages students to practice their language mechanics and detail skills as they analyze a picture, picture caption and story for grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, spelling, usage, capitalization, or content errors and then correct the errors like real editors.

Editor in Chief C2

The Critical Thinking

The goal of this program is to develop students' skills in reading comprehension, particularly those skills that require critical thinking, such as inference, relevance, identifying evidence, and generalization. ~ ~ Students will read excerpts from award-winning literature, original fiction, and nonfiction topics, answer questions about what they read, and provide evidence to support their choices. ~ ~ Grades 4-6 ability; 50 activities per book.

Reading Detective: Developing Thinking Skills for Reading Comprehension A1 (1501 / RL 4+ / 4-6)

Children's Books

Critical Thinking Books and Software

This book provides a thinking approach to learning standards-based language mechanics. This book helps students develop the skills of a real copy editor as they focus on finding, analyzing and correcting errors in context. A grammar, usage and punctuation guide is included. Includes 33 reproducible activities.

Editor In Chief Beginning Book: Grammar Disasters and Punctuation Faux Pas (Editor in Chief Beginining)

Critical Thinking Co.

These highly-effective, literature-based thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping students in Grades 5-6 understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations. Students answer multiple-choice and short-response questions then provide sentence-level evidence for their answers. Each reproducible book contains goals, pretests and posttests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and answers with evidence and detailed explanations.

Reading Detective® A1

Activities, Crafts & Games

"(Grades 7-8)The standards-based critical thinking activities of Reading Detective® 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, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidence to support their answers. The Grades 7-8 (B1) level includes mixed-skills throughout and provides an introductory lesson for each skill.Teaching SupportIncludes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards."

Reading Detective® B1

These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students in Grades 3-4 need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping students understand challenging critical reading concepts such as making inferences, drawing conclusions, determining cause and effect, using context clues to define vocabulary, and making predictions and generalizations. 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.

Reading Detective® Beginning

The Critical Thinking Co.™

(Grades 6-12+) The standards-based critical thinking activities of Reading Detective® 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, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary. Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidence to support their answers. The Grades 6–12+ remedial (Rx) level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill. (Rx activities are "prescriptive" to help underperforming students in Grades 6–12+ improve their comprehension skills. Reading level is Grades 4–6; story content is Grades 6+.) Teaching Support Includes pretests, post-tests, lesson guidelines, and answers with detailed evidence. Reading and literary analysis skills are based on grade-level standards.

Reading Detective Rx

Editor in Chief level improves students' grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and attention to detail using a standards-based thinking approach rather than drill and practice. This effective method teaches students to carefully analyze and edit stories that contain errors in writing mechanics and story details.

Editor in Chief Level 3 Workbook - Grammar Disasters & Punctuation Faux Pas (Grades 9-12)

Linda Borla

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