Depth and Complexity Teaching Critical Thinking Using Fairytales
5.0 (684 reviews)Teach your students how to explore content with depth and complexity.Here it is, a complete and ready-to-use resource for teaching all 11 elements (Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and
- Grade
- Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
- Pages
- 82
- Answer key
- Sample Responses Included
- Teaching duration
- 1 Month
- Digital download
Description
Teach your students how to explore content with depth and complexity.
Here it is, a complete and ready-to-use resource for teaching all 11 elements (Big Ideas, Rules, Trends, Patterns, Language of the Discipline, Ethics, Relationships Over Time, Details, Unanswered Questions, Across Disciplines, and Multiple Perspectives) of critical thinking.! Your students will explore of these elements by applying them to familiar stories, such as “Cinderella”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, “Hansel and Gretel”, “Jack and the Beanstalk”, and “The Three Little Pigs.” These enduring fairytales present countless avenues for critical analysis and can be used with many grade levels (4-10+). Everything you need is included; no need to purchase additional materials or books!
Two versions–with and without icons–are now included!!
What’s included:
* Instructions: Detailed information and suggestions on implementing these materials.
* 6 Fairytales: Formatted and ready to print. Titles are listed above.
* 6 Explorations Guides: Each guide includes specific and concrete examples of how to apply the 11 different icons to the included fairytales.
* 11 Graphic Organizers: One for each critical thinking “Thinking Tool”. (provided in color and gray scale versions).
* 4 Addition Fairytales: “The Frog Prince”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Rapunzel”, and “Rumplestiltskin”. These can be used for extension activities of your choosing.
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This resource was created based on the Depth and Complexity framework, which was developed by Dr. Sandra Kaplan under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement: 1996
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Reviews
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Too advanced for 5th grade
I liked this resource but my 5th grade students struggled with making these connections
Not appropriate for beginning of the year
This is very hard for me to implement until almost the third quarter. Week one has decimals, and my fourth graders don't learn about decimals until the third quarter. It also jumps into division and bigger multiplication early. I wish it had a few weeks of third-grade review.
Affixes Resource Pack
This was not exactly what I was looking for for a supplemental resource for my 5th grade class.
Not a "spiral" review
I wanted to like this so much because it was exactly what I wanted. But, Week 1 already starts talking about coordinate grids and volume, standards that aren't covered until later on in the school year. I wish it was organized by the order the standards are taught throughout the school year instead of introducing end-of-year concepts in the first few weeks.
Great Activities, but Limited Direct Instruction
This resource is advertised as a week-long unit, but in practice it functions more like one day of direct instruction followed by several activity days. There is only one PowerPoint for teaching, with the remaining materials focused on practice.
I expected a more balanced structure with instruction and assessment spread across multiple days. For example, I was able to use the PowerPoint and the second day’s worksheet within a single class period, and the “scoot” activity worked well for a separate day. However, I’m unsure how I’ll incorporate the remaining sketch notes, which might have been more effective if directly integrated into the initial instruction.
One major area for improvement is alignment between instruction and assessment. The assessments and task cards include concepts like “to be” verbs and auxiliary verbs, but these are not introduced or modeled in the PowerPoint. This created confusion for my students and could easily be developed into an additional day of instruction.
Overall, the materials are well-designed and engaging, but the unit would benefit from more comprehensive instruction and clearer alignment between teaching and assessment.
Questions & Answers (6)
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I know these are not designed to be used digitally, however, I would love to share them with students without having to share the entire 100 pages at a time. Would it be possible to make it editable? It would be password protected to students, I am just trying to share one story at a time to them, so I am trying to edit the pdf into chunks, storywise. Does that make sense? LOL Thank you!
Hi Yvette. You can make a copy of the file and then delete any pages you don't want to share with your students.
Are there answer keys for the
depth and Complexity Using Fairy Tales Unit?
There are teaching notes with suggested/possible answers.
Due to distance learning, I'm wondering if you can make this editable so that I can push out one piece at a time? Thank you!
They aren't designed to be used digitally. However, you are free to share them with your students on a secure, password-protected platform. As long as the materials are not posted publicly, you're good to go:-).
Hi!
In looking at the preview, I'd just like to verify that the answer keys that are included are NOT the "Exploration Guides" - correct? There are *real* answer keys to the suggested Graphic Organizers (the thinking tools chosen that you checked-off on the spreadsheet shown)? Thank you!
The exploration guide is what I consider an answer key, since it includes information that you are trying to elicit from your students. Providing an answer key for the graphic organizers is not practical, since your students will come up with numerous responses that go beyond even the exploration guide.
I am very interested in this product and am wondering what the average lexile for the fairy tales is? Is it appropriate for high level 7th grade?
I don't have a Lexile for these fairytales, and I am not allowed to provide one. Lexile is a trademarked term that authors cannot assign to their work unless approved by the company. However, the fairytales that I use are Grimm's, so you are free to use the Lexile Analyzer on Lexile.com yourself.
I will say that this is a very popular resource with middle school teachers. Aside from readability of the text, this resource helps students to really "dig deeply" and discuss some pretty heavy topics that are easily overlooked in fairytales.
Please let me know if you have any other questions.
Would you consider making something like this for mythology?
Yes!!! I have it on my to-do list. I just need to write my own versions of the myths due to copyright issues. That will take a bit of time:-)
