Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking Books and Games
Educators know that it is not only important for students to learn information, but it is also important for them to think about what the information means. Critical thinking books, workbooks, and games help students learn to interpret information and increase understanding.
Critical Thinking Books
Books containing analogies, story problems, and mind builders help students make comparisons and draw conclusions while relating information to the world around them. When they put books like Teacher Created Resources’ Analogies for Critical Thinking, Carson Dellosa’s Solve Story Problems Using Pictures, and Evan-Moor’s Critical and Creative Thinking Activities to use, they may be required to apply what they know about objects to form an analogy, visualize how to solve an equation that could arise in everyday life, or imagine a solution to a problem they have yet to encounter.
Critical Thinking Workbooks and Games
Encouraging students to depart from routine ways of encountering information and solving problems can help them exercise their minds in new ways. Different from reading textbook chapters, completing skill and drill activities, or even listening to lectures, are the workbooks and games offered here to stimulate critical thinking. The Plexers and Plexers Workbooks by Pearson Learning each contain a series of puzzles with clues that students must crack to solve pictorial codes for words and phrases. Whether used on their own or as a warm-up activity for vocabulary or reading activities, the puzzles require students to approach acquiring information from a new direction that requires a different type of interpretation.
Critical thinking games can be incorporated into classrooms as supplements or substitutes for other teaching methods. For example, the You’ve Been Sentenced Card Game by McNeill Designs could complement sentence diagramming activities because it requires students to create grammatical and logical sentences from its unique word deck. In addition to being used in classrooms, these games make great educational tools for home use. Before they reach school age, students can enjoy games such as the Pattern Play Blocks from Mindware that teach them motor, sorting, matching, and other skills. Once students have reached school age and even after they have grown beyond school age, they can continue to enjoy and benefit from increasingly complex critical thinking games.
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Reading Detective Book, A1, Grade 5-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$25.99These highly-effective, literature-based thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping students in Grades 5-6...$25.99 -
Reading Detective Beginning, Grade 3-4
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$25.99These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students in Grades 3-4 need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 192-page activity book is especially effective at helping...$25.99 -
Mind Benders Level 1, Grades PreK-K
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$10.99This 56-page book contains several of our best-selling deductive thinking puzzles. It develops the logic, reading comprehension, and mental organization skills vital to achieving higher grades and top test scores in all subjects. These award-winning, fun...$10.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$10.99Subtotal: -
Mind Benders Verbal, Grades K-2
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$9.99This 48-page book contains several of our verbal deductive thinking puzzles. Unlike our other Mind Benders® products, these puzzles are read to students, so they develop the logic, listening, mental organization, and memory skills vital to achieving...$9.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$9.99Subtotal: -
Balance Benders, Math, Level 2, Grades 6-12+
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$10.99Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are...$10.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$10.99Subtotal: -
Balance Benders Level 1, Grades 4-12+
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$10.99Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are...$10.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$10.99Subtotal: -
Balance Benders Beginning, Grades 2-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$10.99Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders™! You can use these activities as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Students develop problem-solving skills and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are...$10.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$10.99Subtotal: -
Building Thinking Skills, Level 2, Grades 4-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$39.99This colorful and engaging series improves academic performance in Reading, Writing, Math and Science and prepares students for a wide variety of cognitive tests commonly used for academic placement. The highly effective verbal and spatial reasoning...$39.99 -
Building Thinking Skills, Level 1, Grades 2-3
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$37.99This colorful and engaging series improves academic performance in Reading, Writing, Math and Science and prepares students for a wide variety of cognitive tests commonly used for academic placement. The highly effective verbal and spatial reasoning...$37.99 -
Building Thinking Skills Book, Level 3, Grade 7-12+
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$29.99This engaging 288-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 7-12+. The Building Thinking Skills® series is the bestselling thinking skills...$29.99 -
Science Detective A1, Grade 5-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$22.99The mind-building lessons and activities in this 176-page book teach topics and skills drawn from state and national science standards to prepare students for more advanced science courses and new assessments that measure reasoning, reading...$22.99 -
Daily Mind Builders: Social Studies, Grade 5-12
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$16.99This 136-page book is comprised of intriguing activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized...$16.99 -
Daily Mind Builders Science Book, Grade 5-12
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$16.99This 144-page book is comprised of intriguing activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized...$16.99 -
Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts, Grade 5-12
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$16.99This 136-page book is comprised of intriguing activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons. Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized...$16.99 -
Mind Benders Book 5, Grades 7-12+
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$10.99Mind Benders®, our best-selling deductive thinking puzzles, develop logic, reading comprehension, and mental organizational skills that are vital to achieving high grades and top test scores in all subjects. They're also great for developing real-life,...$10.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$10.99Subtotal: -
Mind Benders Level 3, Grades 3-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$10.99This 48-page book contains several of our best-selling deductive thinking puzzles. It develops the logic, reading comprehension, and mental organization skills vital to achieving higher grades and top test scores in all subjects. These award-winning, fun...$10.99Qty in Cart: 0Price:$10.99Subtotal: -
Quick Flip Questions for the Revised Blooms Taxonomy
Edupress™
$12.99Understanding the critical thinking skills of the 2001 revision of Bloom's Taxonomy is easy with this handy teaching tool. Learn how to ask questions, lead discussions and plan lessons geared to each level of critical thinking: remembering,...$12.99 -
American Trivia Flash Card, 150 Questions
Wordteasers
$14.95Show off your knowledge of American Trivia by answering these 150 fascinating, sometimes quirky questions about the United States. As with all WordTeasers decks, each card contains a wide range of information about the place or person discussed on the...$14.95 -
The MindUP Curriculum: Grades 6-8
Scholastic Teacher Resources
$24.99Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning By The Hawn Foundation Research-based and tested in dozens of classrooms This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and...$24.99 -
Mental Blox Critical Thinking Game
Learning Resources
$37.96Put your critical thinking to the test and fire up the strategic problem solving! Stack, pattern and match the multicolor shapes. Don't be fooled by appearances, these endlessly enjoyable blocks mean brain-boosting business. Mental Blox help children...$37.96