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Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6–12

A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities

 

Preface

Master List of Activities

Part I: Foundation and Background

Chapter 1
Academic Thinking With Academic Language

Chapter 2
Teacher Habits for Developing Thinking, Language, and Content

Part II: Twelve Academic Thinking Skills

Chapter 3
Analyzing

Chapter 4
Comparing

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Chapter 5
Categorizing and Classifying
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Chapter 6
Identifying Cause and Effect

Chapter 7
Problem Solving

Chapter 8
Persuading

Chapter 9
Empathizing

Chapter 10
Synthesizing

Chapter 11
Interpreting

Chapter 12
Evaluating

Chapter 13
Communicating

Chapter 14
Applying

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Part III: Reproducibles
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Appendix A
Activities for Multiple Intelligences

Appendix B
Deep Questions and Controversial Topics

Appendix C
List of Familiar Tunes for Making Up Songs

References and Suggested Resources

Index

 

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