6Cs Article 011: Online Shopping and Fraud - Critical Thinking - Easel

How much did Amazon make during the pandemic? How do sellers cheat the system?

Reading response article about CRITICAL THINKING and MULTIPLE POINTS of VIEW.

The informational text is differentiated at four reading levels (Grade 6, 8, 10, and 12.)

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Do your students know...

• How much do we spend online? (Try guessing.) 

• How much did Amazon make during the pandemic?

• How does Amazon calculate product ratings?
  (It's not a simple average.)

• How do sellers cheat the system by getting fake reviews?

• Why would people be willing to leave fake reviews?

This article includes a Critical Thinking mini-lesson.

• How to be FULL-MINDED and explore multiple sides of an issue 

• Brainstorming prompts to think about different points of view.

The discussion handout includes six questions.

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This lesson includes concepts from the 6Cs CRITICAL THINKING chapter of the GROWTH MINDSET 21st Century Learning bundle.

It would go well with the MAKING CONNECTIONS reading strategy.

• Note: this early-bird free version does NOT include answers using the Making Connections graphic organizer (yet.)
  

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This article comes in 4 differentiated reading levels:

• Handout A Grade 6

• Handout B Grade 8

• Handout C Grade 10

• Handout D Grade 12

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.

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• 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

• Mini-lesson on CRITICAL THINKING

• Discussion questions  

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