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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Color Code Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$30.99Stack the tiles to recreate each composition layer by layer! Choose from 100 challenges just stack the right tiles in the right order. Game includes: 18 colored tiles, a practical tile display holder and game guide outlining challenges and solutions...$30.99 -
Day Preschool Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$35.99From SmartGames, the worldwide leader in single player puzzle games, comes Day & Night. Re-create shapes and designs, block by block, with this beautifully crafted 3-D wooden puzzle. Young kids can begin with challenges whose blocks are revealed in the...$35.99 -
Three Little Piggies Deluxe Preschool Puzzle Game
Smartgames®
$32.99Can you help these three smart pigs build their houses? Can you set them up so that the pigs can play outside? If you spot the wolf can you help the pigs stay safe inside their houses? Smart Little Piggies is a perfect brain game for young children. It...$32.99 -
180 Days of Problem Solving for First Grade
Shell Education
$28.99Take your students on a year-round problem-solving adventure with thematic units that hone in on the key skills needed to meet today's standards. With the changes in mathematics standards, teachers need a tool to help them implement lessons that provide...$28.99 -
Comprehension and Critical Thinking Grade 5
Shell Education
$30.99This easy-to-implement resource includes accompanying document-based questions that focus on key strategies for breaking down informational text to help students build cross-curricular reading skills. A document-based assessment sheet is also provided...$30.99 -
Comprehension and Critical Thinking Grade 3
Shell Education
$30.99This easy-to-implement resource includes accompanying document-based questions that focus on key strategies for breaking down informational text to help students build cross-curricular reading skills. A document-based assessment sheet is also provided...$30.99 -
Reading Detective Rx, Grade 6-12
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$30.99These highly-effective, literature-based critical 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...$30.99 -
Reading Detective B1, Grades: 7-8
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$31.99These highly-effective, literature-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. This 208-page activity book is especially effective at helping students in...$31.99 -
Reading Detective Book, A1, Grade 5-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$31.99These 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...$31.99 -
Reading Detective Beginning, Grade 3-4
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$31.99These 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...$31.99 -
Building Thinking Skills Book, Level 3, Grade 7-12+
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$35.99This 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...$35.99 -
Science Detective A1, Grade 5-6
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$28.99The 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...$28.99 -
Critical and Creative Thinking Activities Book, Grade 6+
Evan-moor Educational Publishers
$28.99Engage your Grade 6+ students in thinking skills practice with Critical and Creative Thinking Activities! 140+ pages of fun, imaginative activities motivate students as they practice thinking in multiple ways about a variety of curriculum- and...$28.99 -
Building Thinking Skills Book, Beginning, Grade Pre K
The Critical Thinking Co.™
$32.99This colorful, fun 224-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests. It also teaches many academic concepts and skills taught in kindergarten and first grade...$32.99