Critical Thinking Skills Finding Facts

"Improves: reading skills, writing skills, reasoning skills, test scores & more!"--Cover.

Being able to think critically will ensure all students to become a success in school and in life. Students will gain the ability to not only understand what they have read, but how to build upon that knowledge independently. Start off with an introduction to critical thinking skills, including why you need them. Then, learn how to stand out from the crowd by being your own person and thinking independently. Gain some organizational skills so you can stay on top of things. Learning to distinguish between facts and opinions is the first step to making an inference. Find out how to plan ahead and anticipate consequences. Know what kinds of questions critical thinkers will ask, and how they will lead to successfully solving a problem. Aligned to your State Standards and written to Bloom's Taxonomy, reproducible writing tasks, crossword, word search, comprehension quiz and answer key are also included.

Grade Level: 1-4 Interest Level: 2-6 Reading Level: 3-4 ​Using analogies to teach problem solving! Example: Yogurt is to Soft as Potato Chip is to _____. As students use clues to solve the puzzles, they must make comparisons, analyze attributes, find associations, use visual/verbal discrimination, and form logical patterns. The 21 lesson pages featured here first pose simple concrete analogies and then progress to more abstract problems. With these step-by-step exercises, children are sure to get plenty of critical reasoning practice.

Critical Thinking Enablers (CTE) is a "sweet sixteen" course package (see Table of Contents) with very much needed critical thinking skills. In a future that will require better skills at sorting out facts from fiction, this work is very relevant and needed. Simply put, and to borrow a little from writer Ernest Hemingway as explained, this syllabus is a vehicle for forming your own, "built-in, shock proof crap detector."Begins with a challenge test of critical thinking teasers (i.e., surprise pictures) that show how unseeing human eyes can be. Making statements of appreciation about others in your group, are encouraged throughout the sessions, by introducing "sentence starters." "I liked it when . . . ." "I admire you for . . . ." Occasionally, I have had students respond with sincere remarks that makes teaching CTEs, very worth while: ¿ "Wow! I realize now how this course is all about getting your head together!" (Unnamed student)¿ "Thank you Robert, for telling me you benefited when I gave examples of primary sources that made sense to you. You made it meaningful for everyone, too."Special Issue Number 1 77 pages, 69 illustrations, Bibliography + Dictionary of Terms. Index finder's aid may be retrieved on the website. Retail $20.