Critical thinking involves making judgements based on reasoning: students consider options; analyze these using specific criteria; and draw conclusions and make judgments. Critical thinking competency encompasses a set of abilities that students use to examine their own thinking, and that of others, about information that they receive through observation, experience, and various forms of communication. Suitability: Grade 4, 5, 6, 7 Language Arts, Creative thinking, Core.

Books included: Smallest Girl in the smallest Grade The Invisible Boy A Different Pond The owl and the lemming / Roselynn Akulukjuk Step Forward with Problem Solving IF Peter and the Wolf ZOOM .