Critical Thinking Gr. 5-8

By Brenda Rollins

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: CCP Interactive
• Release date: Jan 1, 2010
• ISBN: 9781553199175

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CRITICAL THINKING

Reading Skills Series

Written by Brenda Vance Rollins, Ed. D.

GRADES 5 - 8

Reading Levels 3 - 4

Classroom Complete Press

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ISBN: 978-1-55319-486-6

© 2010

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Critical Thinking Skills

Critical Thinking

Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy

Contents

Assessment Rubric

Critical Thinking

Teacher Guide

Our resource has been created for ease of use by both TEACHERS and STUDENTS alike.

Introduction

Identifying and using critical thinking skills is a daunting task facing most elementary teachers today. Our resource was written with this very purpose in mind. Here you will find critical thinking defined as, what happens when you judge, decide, or solve a problem. Many of the critical thinking skills such as, 1) independent thinking, 2) organization, 3) making inferences, 4) anticipating consequences, 5) recognizing valid and invalid arguments, and 6) problem solving are defined and used in thought provoking exercises throughout the book. Rather than claim to be