Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Becoming a Critical Listener (English Iii Listening)
Learning to listen critically and extract the essence of a presentation will prepare you for college or a job. In this lesson, you'll learn and practice how to become a critical listener.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: A Directed Listening Thinking Activity
Lesson which requires students to listen to The Tell-Tale Heart read aloud, answer prediction questions during the reading, and write written responses after. Excellent for beginning a mystery unit.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Learning How to Listen and Take Effective Notes
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to listen effectively, take good notes, and ask critical questions.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: A Penguin Tale or Tail?
This interdisciplinary approach to science, language arts and technology will guide students into a study of real information about penguins and their habitat. They will learn to identify homophones and share what they learn using...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Detective Elmo: The Cookie Case
Critical thinking is the spotlight here as you help Detective Elmo save Cookie Monster and crack the cookie case!
Other
Manner of Speaking: Analyses of Speeches
This is a collection of videos of speeches by well-known personalities and celebrities. Each one is accompanied by an analysis of the speech's structure, devices, and arguments. Some videos are excerpts from movies, some are from...
Other
Art Criticism: Four Stages of the Critical Process
Provides a brief description of each stage of art criticism using music as an example: description, analysis, interpretation, and judgement.
BBC
Bbc: Bitesize: Gcse Music
GCSE Music provides links to a variety of music topics including composers, composing music, music theory, music technology, performing and evaluating music, music styles, world music, and traditional music from the UK.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: My Sound Is the Best! [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can lead...
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Module K: Shapes
In this series of STEAM activities, students will discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences. Another activity in this module will allow students to identify shapes by applying...
Other
Middle Web: ccss.ela literacy.sl.6.3: Argument/claim [Pdf]
A graphic organizer for laying out a speaker's argument or claim and the reasons or evidence given, both supported and unsupported.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It's Your Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
This lesson plan is intended to be used during the month of March when the class is preparing to celebrate Dr. Seuss Day. After listening to and reading different stories by Dr. Seuss, the students have opportunities to compare and...
Other
Ntlf: Class Participation Assessment Rubric
This rubric is a means of restricting the subjective element in an assessment process of a Socratic dialogue, which inevitably has a subjective aspect. It suggests that students should be scored on the basis on the teacher's...