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Critical Reading: How the Language Really Works: What's Critical Thinking? ArticleCritical Reading: How the Language Really Works: What's Critical Thinking? Article
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9th - 10th
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Critical Reading: How the Language Really Works: What's Critical Thinking?

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Reading and writing are essentially thinking. This site examines the aspects of critical thinking, including rationality, self-awareness, honesty, open-mindedness, discipline, and judgment. RI.11-12.10a Text Complexity

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Concepts

critical thinking, self-awareness

Additional Tags

discipline, rationality, thinking, thinking and reading, ri.11-12.10a text complexity, critical thinking skills, reading skills

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RI.11-12.10a SL.9-10.3 CCRA.R.8 SL.11-12.3 RI.9-10.8 RI.9-10.6 RI.11-12.5 W.9-10.9.b RST.11-12.2 RST.11-12.9 SL.11-12.2 RST.9-10.2 SL.9-10.2 RST.11-12.8 SL.11-12.1.c SL.9-10.1.d

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