Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Upper Grades

Name: Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Upper Grades

Source: http://www.meritsoftware.com/solutions/high_school/index.php

Link: http://www.meritsoftware.com/software/developing_critical_thinking_skills_for_upper_grades/index.php

Description: Students receive hands-on practice in using reading improvement strategies that sharpen their critical thinking skills and develop their ability to make inferences.

Publisher: Merit Software

Date Published: N/A

Cost: (depending on how many stations it is used for) 1 station is $179.00 in the classroom

Age/Group: Grades 8^th through 11^th for English, English Language Learners, and Adults

Effectiveness/Ratings:

From Merit Software website: http://www.meritsoftware.com/software/developing_critical_thinking_skills_for_upper_grades/index.php

Great for students who want more vocabulary practice
and practice identifying main ideas."

-- Lehman College, Bronx, NY

Methods and Strategies for Classroom Incorporation:

1.       1. This program is wonderful for assessing students’ readability and skills before the actual tutorials begin. Students can actually use this program in the beginning of the year for placement into reading levels and from there gain appropriate lessons the get increasingly more difficult as the program continues.

2.       2. This program is very individualized, so it would best be used during individual work time when reading, writing, or preparing for standardized high stakes testing.

3.       3. The program incorporates its own assessment that the teacher can print off after the lesson is complete for personal grading.

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