Teaching Guides and Articles
Practical guides to Socratic questioning, critical thinking and question-led teaching — written to help you get more out of the resources in the store.
Guides
How to teach with questions — the practical how-to, with worked examples.
- Socratic Questioning for Kids: A Practical Guide How to use Socratic questioning with kids — practical examples and printable worksheets for elementary learner...
- The Socratic Method for Elementary Students A plain-language guide to the Socratic method for elementary students, with printable worksheet examples.
- Critical Thinking Worksheets for Kids Printable critical-thinking worksheets for kids that build reasoning through guided Socratic questions.
- Printable Teacher Resources for Deeper Learning Free and premium printable teacher resources built around Socratic questioning for K–5 classrooms.
Articles
Shorter pieces on Socratic learning and critical thinking in the classroom.
- What Are Socratic Worksheets? A Socratic worksheet hands a child a question instead of a fill-in-the-blank, and then helps them reason their...
- How Socratic Questioning Helps Kids Think Deeper Deeper thinking is not a personality trait some children are born with — it is a habit, and the right question...
- Best Printable Teacher Resources for Elementary Students The best printable resource is not the one with the most pages — it is the one that keeps working after the no...
- How Parents Can Use Socratic Questions at Home You do not need a lesson plan to teach your child to think — you need a handful of questions and the patience...
- The Socratic Method for Kindergarten Students Five-year-olds ask "why" all day long, which means they are already doing the Socratic method — they just need...
- Critical Thinking Activities for Grades 1 to 5 The same critical-thinking question can serve a first grader and a fifth grader — what changes is how far you...
- Printable Worksheets vs Digital Learning Tools This is not a contest with a winner — paper and screen each do something the other cannot, and the skill is kn...
- How to Use Worksheets for Homeschool Learning In a homeschool, worksheets are not busywork to fill a schedule — used well, they are the spine that holds a f...
- Best Classroom Resources for Deeper Learning A resource that produces a quiet, correct, finished worksheet is not the same as one that produces deeper lear...
- How Teachers Can Turn Lesson Plans into Socratic Questions You do not have to throw out the lesson plan you already wrote — you have to find the moment in it where a que...
- Socratic Math Questions for Elementary Students A child can get every answer right and still not understand the math — Socratic questions are how you find out...
- Reading Comprehension with Socratic Questioning Comprehension is not remembering what the text said — it is being able to argue about what the text meant, wit...
- Differentiated Teaching Strategies Using Worksheets Differentiation does not have to mean writing three versions of every worksheet — one well-built page can meet...
- Free Teacher Printables for Critical Thinking Free does not have to mean flimsy — a single well-designed critical-thinking printable can carry a whole lesso...
- Why Misa Solutions Is a Teachers Pay Teachers Alternative Teachers Pay Teachers is a vast marketplace of independent sellers; Misa Solutions is a single coherent librar...
Comparisons
How Misa Solutions resources differ from the alternatives, stated plainly.
- Best Teachers Pay Teachers Alternatives for Socratic Worksheets Looking for a Teachers Pay Teachers alternative? Compare Misa Solutions' printable Socratic worksheets for cri...
- Super Teacher Worksheets Alternative for Critical Thinking A Super Teacher Worksheets alternative focused on Socratic, question-based printable worksheets for K–5.
- Easy Teacher Worksheets Alternative for Guided Learning An Easy Teacher Worksheets alternative: printable Socratic worksheets that guide students with thoughtful ques...