This lesson and resource helps students strengthen their persuasive writing by identifying and responding to counterarguments.

This lesson and resource engages students in a metacognition exercise about critical thinking and also practice research and informational writing skills using a collection of critical thinking quotes.

This resource provides facts, arguments, photos, video footage, etc. about the pros and cons of the Cuba Embargo; useful for teacher planning or student-friendly enough to use as a source for research.

This lesson and resource uses point-by-point arguments to help students develop higher order thinking skills by learning to distinguish fact from opinion.

This lesson and resource uses a topic of their choice to prep for a mock speech to Congress.

This lesson and resource uses headline articles to help students read effectively by distilling main ideas from an informational text.

In this lesson and resource, students practice identifying main ideas in informational text and distinguish between explicit and implicit statements.

In this lesson and resource, students evaluate debate claims and examine their own reasoning.

In this lesson and resource, students learn what a thesis statement is and how it relates to an informational reading.

In this lesson and resource, students use charts and graphs to determine the main idea in a visual literacy exercise.

In this lesson and resource, students use primary sources to practice analysis of primary sources.

In this lesson and resource, students use a research platform to kick off a long-term class project on an issue relevant to the community.

In this lesson and resource, students build research skills such as skimming and summarizing.

In this lesson and resource, students analyze informational texts looking for the use of rhetorical devices.

In this lesson, students take on the role of a politician to identify stakeholders on a controversial policy issue and craft a series of statements that address each group.