McGraw Hill
Read: Does Technology Make Us Lazy?
Compare these two passages for some interesting ideas about how technology affects our lives. The questions that follow ask you to identify the main idea from either direct statement or inference.
Other
Teaching Critical Thinking Skills
It is increasingly important to teach students how to develop their critical thinking abilities. This site lists some ideas and strategies that can help teach them to improve their critical thinking skills.
Other
Fact and Opinion Quiz
A short interactive quiz on the ability to separate fact from opinion. Complete with answers and scores.
Family Education
Family Education: Improving Your Child's Thinking Skills
By asking the right kinds of questions, you can help improve a students thinking skills. This site lists several ideas and types of questions that can help develop a child's critical thinking skills.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Make Inferences and Draw Conclusions
Learn how to go beyond the literal meaning of a text by using a list of guiding questions to make inferences and draw conclusions.
Quia
Quia: Reading Detective Drawing Conclusions 7
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference or conclusion in this four question quiz.
Quia
Quia: Making Inferences, Summaries, and Conclusions
Read a short text and then choose the correct inference, summary, or conclusion in this Rags to Riches style game.
Other
Cuesta College: Reading Comprehension Guide: Inferences and Conclusions
Explanations and examples of inferences and conclusions in reading and in understanding context clues to define unknown vocabulary.
TES Global
Blendspace: Ethos, Logos, Pathos
A learning module with eight links to images, videos, charts, and assessments about ethos, logos, and pathos.
TES Global
Blendspace: Argument Writing: Homework
A learning module with links to eight websites to use while writing an argumentative essay on how beneficial homework is.
Other
Central Rivers Aea: Webb's Depth of Knowledge (Dok)
This page offers a wealth of downloadable resources for teaching critical thinking skills. Choose the thinking skill you wish to teach, and several .pdf files will be available, including strategies, assessments and student handouts.
Intel Corporation
Showing Evidence Tool: Analyzing and Evaluating Information
If you're looking for a way to engage students in analyzing and evaluating evidence, rather than simply piling up information, this tool may be a boon. Students can use it to construct an argument, rate the quality of resources, and...
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: Comprehension: Facts and Opinions Quiz
Determine whether each statement is fact or opinion in this ten-question quiz.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Facts and Opinions
This slideshow focuses on facts and opinions; it provides definitions, examples, and articles for practice.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Reading Comprehension: Context Clues and Inferences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This reading comprehension flipchart uses Activote and a puzzle to review context clues and inferences. It is intended to review for the FCAT or other state assessment exams.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing a Persuasive Essay
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses the structure and procedure for writing a persuasive essay. Assessment questions are included.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fact and Opinion
[Free Registration/Login Required] Designed for grade 6, this flipchart covers the differences between fact and opinion. Students will analyze statements to determine if they are a fact or if they are an opinion.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Fact or Opinion
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews the definitions of fact and opinion and gives the students opportunities to sort and identify fact and opinion statements.
Other
Critical Thinking in Everyday Life: 9 Strategies
This resource presents strategies to help improve your critical thinking skills, this site provides useful information for applying these skills to your everyday life.
Grammarly
Grammarly Handbook: Answering the Opposition in a Persuasive Essay
This page explains when and how to answer the opposing claims in a persuasive essay.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Comparing and Contrasting: Differentiating Between Fact and Opinion
This downloadable slideshow focuses on comparing and contrasting, and distinguishing between fact and opinion. It provides definitions and examples of each.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: What Is an Inference?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines what an inference is and helps students understand the concept using Activote to review and practice.
Other
Prezi: Explicit vs. Implicit
Slideshow explains the difference between explicit and implicit meaning in texts and visuals. Includes good examples and practice questions.