Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and logically about what to do or what to believe.
It is deliberately and systematically processing information so that you can make better decisions and generally understand things better.
One of the most important skills that students need to improve their reading comprehension is the ability to distinguish between facts and opinions, a higher order thinking skill. When students make this distinction, they look beyond the literal meaning of the text and read critically, which improves comprehension of the text.
Someone with critical thinking skills is able to understand the logical connections between ideas.
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Fact and opinion, making inferences and comprehension can sometimes be hard concepts for our young students.
Your first and second grade students can have fun learning these important skills with these four fairy tales –
- Little Red Riding Hood,
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears,
- The Three Little Pigs,
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff
I have included Write the Room center activities for all four fairy tales, as well as a fairy tale comprehension game.
You will also find
- an anchor chart for making inferences,
- task cards to put at literacy centers
- worksheets
included in this resource.
Comprehension Game 1st to 3rd Grades Fairy Tales
If your students like Fairy Tales they will love this game.
The students should be familiar with the four Fairy Tales (The Three Pigs, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk and Little Red Riding Hood) before playing this game.
This resource includes directions for assembling the game, directions about how to play, the game board, a spinner, and 27 different questions cards that can be asked about any of the four Fairy Tales.
Because some of the questions on the cards have right or wrong answers (What happened at the beginning of this Fairy Tale?); and some of the cards require critical thinking (What would you have done differently if you were one of the characters in this Fairy Tale?) you will need to use your professional judgment based on the level of your class to determine what constitutes a correct answer.
It is suggested that you play this game in a whole group or in small groups to demonstrate how to play the game and how to determine if an answer is acceptable.
Sight Words Practice for Kindergarten With Fairy Tale Sentences
This hands-on activity will go great with your fairy tale unit and is perfect for small group instruction or independent centers. These 20 fairy tale inspired sentence cards containing sight words from lists 1-5 will give your students practice reading sight words within the context and making meaning with those words.
Print, laminate and cut apart the sentence cards and the picture cards.
Students read the sight word sentences and decide which picture to put in the empty box to make the sentence make sense.
Students can also create their own sentences with word and picture cards.
Worksheets are included for follow up and independent practice.
Several sentences can have more than one correct picture, so please accept any completed sentence that is reasonable. We have included a suggested list of completed sentences using all of the pictures.
Fairy Tale Math | Graphing Activities for 1st and 2nd Grade
Use the engaging world of fairy tales to teach your students about collecting data, graphing data and analyzing data. Your first grade and second grade students will love sorting and comparing fairy tales in this Fairy Tale Math Graphing pack. This graphing resource was designed with first grade and second grade standards in mind. Your students will practice the skills of sorting and categorizing, comparing, graphing, and analyzing data. Everything you need for a fun and hands-on graphing center is included. This is a perfect addition to your Fairy Tale Unit!
This graphing resource includes 57 fairy tale pictures of people, places things and animals to sort and classify. It also includes 16 header cards to use as the main sorting categories.
Students will sort the cards by:
•character and setting,
•fairy tale,
•real or make-believe.
After they have completed one of the sorts, they complete a data chart where they gather and record the data, graph the data and analyze & interpret the data.
Students should be familiar with the following fairy tales:
• The Three Billy Goats Gruff
• The Three Little Pigs
• Cinderella
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Goldilocks and the Three Bears
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Little Red Riding Hood
• The Little Red Hen
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