Verbal Reasoning for Adolescent Literacy

The Verbal Reasoning Toolkit provides resources and activities to support comprehension including:

• reasoning skill diagnostic checklist,

• designing reasoning rich lesson plan,

• source evaluation checklist and protocols,

• viewpoint comparison,

• think aloud script templates,

• discussion protocols,

• decoding support quick-use activities,

• graphic organizers for

  • comparison

  • evidence gathering

  • reasoning chains

  • multi-source synthesis,

• student reflection prompts,

• two-text synthesis, and

• student rubric for strong reasoning.