1. The Collaborative Classroom
Building Analytical Thinkers in
Elementary Reading

2. Agenda Review common challenges to analytical thinking.
Consider current practice.
Explore games to develop higher-order thinking.
Consider Literature Circles: Implementation & Extension.

3. Connections
Make a list of commonly used sayings or idioms containing the word “heart.”

4. My List A bleeding heart A change of heart A heart of gold
A heart of stone
A heart-to-heart
A heavy purse makes a light heart
A light purse makes a heavy heart
A man after own heart
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Aching heart
After own heart
All heart
At heart
Best interest at heart
Bless your heart
Break your heart
Close to my heart
Cold hands, warm heart
Cross my heart
Cry heart out
Die of a broken heart
Do heart some good
Eat your heart out!
Faint of heart
Find it in one’s heart
Follow one’s heart
From the bottom of heart
Half-hearted
Harden your heart
Have a heart
Have your heart in the right place
Have your heart set against it
Have your heart set on it
Have your heart stand still
Heart and soul
Heart goes out to
Heart is in mouth
Heart is in the right place
Heart isn't in it
Heart skips a beat

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