Your class won't be a bunch of squares from using this well-rounded activity! Instead, they'll be expressing thoughtful questions using the cubing strategy. The class brainstorms questions of increasing rigor about Zach's Lie in the sixth resource in a series of seven.

Concepts

critical thinking, reading strategies, reading

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the finished cubes from the activity to spark fishbowl discussions 
• Embed some of the questions from the activity into a post-assessment of the text

Classroom Considerations

• Have scissors, tape, and paper available to learners for activity 

Pros

• Activity meets almost every level of Bloom's Taxonomy
• Cubing encourages critical thinking and teaches individuals to brainstorm quality questions

Cons

• None

Common Core

SL.6.1.a SL.7.1.a SL.8.1.a