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Critical thinking skills  Critical thinking brings conscious awareness, skills, and standards to the process of observing, analyzing, reasoning, evaluating, reading, and communicating. Mayfield (2007) Book 1 Unit 5 --- important people vs. great people Critical thinking— 22 comprehension strategies Drawing conclusions Understanding cause and effect Making connections Comparing view points Evaluating ideas Reading between the lines Making judgments 22 comprehension strategies (cont.) Making comparisons Interpreting meaning Making inferences Comparing characters Reading a map Interpreting graphs and charts Making calculations Examining reasons 22 comprehension strategies (cont.) Separating facts from opinion Identifying the main idea Organizing information Sequencing Summarizing Recalling details Synthesizing Making judgments Highlight the three pieces of information in the text that you think everyone should know: Most important_________________ Second most important___________ Least important__________________ Developing alternative solutions With a group, brainstorm three different solutions to ..’s problem. A __________________ B __________________ C ___________________ When you brainstorm, everyone contribute ideas. Write down every idea. …. Examining reasons Why do you think it’s necessary in this experiment to collect…? ____________________________ How do you think the author says to use…? _____________________________ Why do you think…? ____________________________ Consciousness-raising tasks (CR) 1 There is an attempt to isolate a specific linguistic feature for focused attention 2 The learners are provided with data that illustrate the targeted feature and they may also be provided with an explicit rule describing or explaining the feature. 3 The learners are expected to utilize intellectual effort to understand the targeted feature. 4 learners may be optionally required to ve