These cross-curriculum exercises help students strengthen listening skills while stimulating interest in a wide range of subjects (biology, geology, history, astronomy, and language arts). Each of the 67 lessons includes a teacher's script, illustrated reproducible student worksheets, and discussion guide. The teacher is provided a script of short paragraphs that are read aloud, and students respond to a question at the end of each paragraph that relates to the information read. Students mark their answers from a multiple choice selection on reproducible worksheets. Each lesson targets essential critical thinking strategies:
- analogies
- drawing conclusions
- comparison/contrast
- recalling detail
- predicting outcomes
- reasoning