Critical Thinking Skills
Critical Thinking Skills
In the 21st century, there is a greater emphasis on thinking critically. Critical thinking includes a variety of skills that you need to develop consciously.
As you work through this course, you will enhance many of these skills. You must think critically about what you experience.
This critical thinking will help you when you respond to texts and to create texts of your own. Critical thinking will help you make sense of the world around you and your place in it.
For example, you will design webs to organize observations and show relationships between ideas, and to plan, compare, and analyze texts. In selecting appropriate reading strategies, you will classify and make predictions about the texts you will study.
Critical thinking skills are not exclusive to English Language Arts; rather, they are necessary for your work in and beyond your school experience.
If you consider how much information you encounter at any given moment, it is imperative for you to think about the text creator's purpose. In some cases, it is to inform; in others, it is to entertain. In many cases, it is to persuade. You need to be mindful of how a text creator crafts a text to convince you the text is true and that you should act upon it.