6Cs Article 009: Service Dog - Is this Discrimination? Critical Thinking - Easel

High-interest CRITICAL THINKING reading article for Middle School students.

• A school prevented a boy with autism from bringing his service animal to class.

• A Human Rights Tribunal said this was okay.

• Students explore multiple points of view to try to make an informed decision about whether this was systemic discrimination.

This reading comprehension article handout is differentiated at four grade levels:

• approximately grades 5, 7, 9, and 11.

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This article goes well with the INFERRING reading strategy.

This informational text is about Critical Thinking and how to seek out high-quality information from both sides to help make an informed opinion about controversial topics.

In Canada, a Human Rights Tribunal said it was okay for a school to deny a boy with autism his service animal in class.

This ruling is controversial. It has sparked debate over service dogs in school. It also shows barriers that students with disabilities face in the education system.

The take-away message is that we can make more informed decisions by becoming full-minded. 

• It’s important to think about the information you have.

• Then, try to figure out what information you might be missing.

• Finally, we need to go out and look for that missing information and consider how it might be right. 

Students get an opportunity to think about different points of view:

• the parents who say this is discrimination,

• the school board who says what they provide is enough,

• the human rights tribunal that agrees with the school board, and

• an accessibility lawyer that says the human rights tribunal failed. 

This article comes in 4 differentiated reading levels:

• Simple words. Simple sentence structure.

• Handout A Grade 5

• Handout B Grade 7

• Handout C Grade 9

• Handout D Grade 11

• Sophisticated vocabulary with complex sentence structure.

NOTE:

• Reading grade levels are approximate.

• I used Hemingway Editor to re-write each paragraph for the different grade levels. Hemingway determines the “grade level” of your text using the Automated Readability Index.

• Although there are many different readability formulas that calculate different grades, the bottom line is there are different versions of the article.

• EACH BODY PARAGRAPH is numbered. All differentiated versions of the articles contain the same paragraph structure. (So paragraph 1 has the same facts in all three reading levels.)

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This package includes: 

• Informational Text article at 4 different reading levels

• Slideshow Introduction (31 slides)

• Mini-lesson on CRITICAL THINKING

• Discussion questions  

• Paragraph response package for brainstorming  

• Reading response rubric 

• Answer key

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