Teaching Reasoning: Activities and Games for the Classroom

Teach students essential skills with engaging activities. In each chapter, you ll explore a key reasoning skill from the Common Core State Standards or Next Generation Science Standards and discover fun, research-based games and activities to help teach them to students. You ll also find strategies for effectively incorporating these tools into your classroom to help prepare students for academic and lifetime success.

Benefits

-Help students develop the ability to critically analyze evidence and draw valid conclusions.

-Refine students' reasoning skills-using a combination of analytical and intuitive reasoning-to help them prosper in 21st century colleges and workplaces.

-Gain classroom games and activities to support reasoning lessons.

-Provide students with the tools to reinforce their reasoning and relay complex information.

Laurel Hecker is a production editor for Marzano Research in Denver, Colorado. She has written and edited across a range of topics and formats, including articles for the Cipher news magazine, website and social media content for local businesses, research reports, and creative pieces. She also has experience guiding and teaching outdoor skills to girls as a Girl Scout counselor. She is a graduate of Colorado College, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in English with a concentration in poetry writing.

Julia A. Simms is director of publications for Marzano Research in Denver, Colorado. She has worked in K 12 education as a classroom teacher, gifted education specialist, teacher leader, and coach, and her books include Coaching Classroom Instruction, Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction and Assessment, Vocabulary for the Common Core, Questioning Sequences in the Classroom, A Handbook for High Reliability Schools, and Teaching Argumentation: Activities and Games for the Classroom. She received her bachelor s degree from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, and her master s degrees in educational administration and K 12 literacy from Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado, respectively.

Ming Lee Newcomb is an editorial assistant and staff writer at Marzano Research in Denver, Colorado. She has experience mentoring groups of students at the high school level and tutoring students at the elementary and post-secondary level. She served as an editor for Leviathan Magazine, and has researched and written education policy briefs for the National Conference of State Legislatures and articles for the Catalyst Newspaper. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in English with a concentration in fiction writing from Colorado College.