Critical Thinking and Standards of Learning

Publisher Marketing: CRITICAL THINKING AND STANDARDS OF LEARNING (SOLS) is a combination of reader and workbook, which is designed for students in middle school or above. Each chapter includes: SOLs (Standards of Learning) that are integral to the chapter reading selections, which are the basis for critical thinking work and student final writing that seek to help the student achieve the chapter SOLs. Learning objectives explain what students do to achieve the SOL of the chapter: what they read, think about and write about. Graphic thinking organizers, which help students to organize their thinking and actually see the "layout" of their writing. Reading selections are materials to which students apply the chapter learning objectives and eventually achieve the SOLs. Exercises help students understand the reading selections and prepare them to write about the content of the chapter. Writing is the final chapter learning experience in which each student's meaning about and understanding of the selections, combined with working with thinking organizers, leads to organized, succinct, and pertinent writing. The writing section also includes Tips to help each student write completely and clearly. The SOLs, the reading selections, and the learning objectives work in concert to give each student a full learning experience. Contributor Bio:  Garnett, David David is an educator, retired from working with the US Marine Corps. While working at the Marine Corps Institute (MCI), he introduced critical thinking to the officer and enlisted military professional education distance learning programs. Later, he also developed and field tested a critical thinking course, using this volume as a foundation, for a privately-run summer education program. The students involved in the field test were from middle and high school. He has other volumes in this series including "'Snipp, Snapp, Snute saa er eventyret ute' - Folklore Reader and Critical Thinking Workbook," "Critical Thinking and Standards of Learning," and Critical Thinking and "r"eligious literature."