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Zach’s Lie: Questioning Strategy – Cubing Lesson PlanZach’s Lie: Questioning Strategy – Cubing Lesson Plan
Publisher
Novelinks
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
45 mins
Instructional Strategy
Collaborative Learning
Year
2008
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Zach’s Lie: Questioning Strategy – Cubing

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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.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

critical thinking, reading strategies, reading

Additional Tags

english language arts

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

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