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Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1 Visual perception is among the last skills a child develops, yet it is a skill that he will use for a lifetime. Whether your child is reading, finishing a puzzle, or doing open-heart surgery, proficiency in visual perception is mandatory. Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1 is aimed at younger children. So these exercises are presented in a clear, uncluttered format, perfect for the easily-distracted kindergartner. With sections on mazes, visual discrimination, visual sequencing, and five other skills, children will enjoy this so much that they won't know they are learning. Each topic in Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1 begins with a pre-test and ends with a post-test so that you can marvel at the progress your child made. Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1 is also beneficial for older children who struggle with visual perception. Visual activities include discrimination, form constancy, spatial relationships, closure, memory, and mazes. Download sample pages from Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1 (PDF) Features Answers are located in the back of this book.Publisher's Information Author: Raya Burstein Pages: 192 Black & White: Yes Activities: 208 Binding: Paperback Copyright: 2005 ISBN: 978-0-89455-700-2 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co™ Made In: USA Consumable: Yes Reproducible: Yes, for use within your own home or classroom. Not for any commercial entity or organization. Faith-Based: No

Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1
Visual perception is among the last skills a child develops, yet it is a skill that he will use for a lifetime. Whether your child is reading, finishing a puzzle, or doing open-heart surgery, proficiency in visual perception is mandatory.
 
Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1 is aimed at younger children. So these exercises are presented in a clear, uncluttered format, perfect for the easily-distracted kindergartner. 
 
With sections on mazes, visual discrimination, visual sequencing, and five other skills, children will enjoy this so much that they won't know they are learning.
 
Each topic in Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1 begins with a pre-test and ends with a post-test so that you can marvel at the progress your child made. Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 1 is also beneficial for older children who struggle with visual perception. Visual activities include discrimination, form constancy, spatial relationships, closure, memory, and mazes.
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Author: Raya Burstein</li>
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Download sample pages from Can You Find Me Kindergarten (PDF) Experts agree that riddles boost children’s intelligence by exposing them to critical thinking and problem-solving. Riddles can also improve creativity and are an excellent warm-up exercise for your kindergartner's brain. Can You Find Me will give your child ample opportunities to think and reason, with 100 mind-building riddles that introduce critical thinking and systematic analysis. To solve each colorful rhyming riddle, your child may need to identify similarities and differences, recognize sequences, classify objects, or interpret analogies. These are concepts found in most state and national standards. Can You Find Me challenges require understanding two or more clues to deduce the answer. No pencilwork is necessary, as your child can either point to a picture or answer verbally. Can You Find Me covers reading readiness, science, math, and social studies and includes answers and a chart of skills developed in each activity. Features Rhyming riddles teach sequences, classifications, analogies, and logic!Answers are located in the back of this book. Publisher's Information Pages: 112- Full Color Binding: Paperback ISBN: 978-0-89455-794-1 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co.™ Consumable: If desired Reproducible: Yes Faith-Based: No

Download sample pages from <a href="http://www.criticalthinking.com/media/blfa_files/03802.pdf" target="new">Can You Find Me Kindergarten (PDF)</a> Experts agree that riddles boost children’s intelligence by exposing them to critical thinking and problem-solving. Riddles can also improve creativity and are an excellent warm-up exercise for your kindergartner's brain. Can You Find Me will give your child ample opportunities to think and reason, with 100 mind-building riddles that introduce critical thinking and systematic analysis. To solve each colorful rhyming riddle, your child may need to identify similarities and differences, recognize sequences, classify objects, or interpret analogies. These are concepts found in most state and national standards. Can You Find Me challenges require understanding two or more clues to deduce the answer. No pencilwork is necessary, as your child can either point to a picture or answer verbally. Can You Find Me covers reading readiness, science, math, and social studies and includes answers and a chart of skills developed in each activity.
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Can You Find Me Kindergarten

The Basics of Critical Thinking The Basics of Critical Thinking is another favorite book from The Critical Thinking Co. This workbook's color illustrations, engaging storylines, and clear explanations teach your student how to think. He'll learn about common argument forms and practice the critical skill of identifying and evaluating evidence. The Basics of Critical Thinking teaches such a vital skill that your student might find that it's the part of this year's schoolwork that he uses most throughout the rest of his life. Plus, he will have such a blast completing it! Although this book teaches common argument forms, its primary focus is identifying and evaluating evidence – the very basis of critical thinking. Most propaganda, advertising schemes, legal trickery, and bad science are not the result of complex arguments; they result from half-truths and simple arguments. The Basics of Critical Thinking utilizes an engaging yet far from juvenile approach to provide your student with the tools to see through such false arguments. Appropriate for students as young as 4th grade and up through 9th grade. Features View Sample Pages HereTopics What Is Critical Thinking? Conclusions and Decisions Beliefs and Claims Finding (Identifying) Evidence Evaluating Evidence Inferring and Inferences Facts and Opinions Facts and Probable Truths False and Probably False Facts, Probably True, and Probably False Venn Diagrams Logical Connectives Advertising Agreements and Contracts Common Errors in Reasoning Arguments Valid and Invalid Arguments Fallacies Answers are located in the back of this book. Publisher Information: Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co Author: Michael O. Baker Pages: 134 student pages, and answers included in the back Reproducible: Yes ISBN: 9781601445070 Faith-Based: No

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Download sample pages from James Madison Critical Thinking Course (PDF) Typically counted as 1/2 credit for high school students. James Madison Critical Thinking Course Engage your teen in captivating crime-related scenarios and give him the necessary critical thinking skills with the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Superbly easy for any homeschool family to use. The step-by-step, self-instructional lessons and activities are straightforward and applicable across your teen's entire curriculum. The James Madison Critical Thinking Course Uses mini-mysteries and a fictional detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Each chapter of the James Madison Critical Thinking Course focuses on various thinking skills and leads your teen gradually into complicated analytical skills. Massive in scope, the course teaches more than sixty-five skills and concepts related to critical thinking. Your student will learn to distinguish a fact from an opinion, recognize ambiguity in a statement, evaluate arguments as valid or not, and assess common fallacies in reasoning. Everything in a typical introductory logic course is included in the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Pages are perforated for easy removal and are reproducible for your home use. The Instruction Guide (sold separately) provides answers to the exercises and the quizzes but virtually no additional information. Features Topics Include: Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc. Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations. Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises, and implications. Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations. Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions. Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation. Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak. Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support. Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument. Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc. Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional. Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc. Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping, appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence. Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical. Topics Include: Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc. Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations. Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises, and implications. Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations. Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions. Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation. Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak. Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support. Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument. Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc. Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional. Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc. Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping, appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence. Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical.Typically counted as 1 credit for high school students. Answers are located in the back of this book. Publisher's Information Authors: William O'Meara, Ph.D and Daniel Flage, Ph.D Pages: 544, perforated Activities: Sixty-five critical thinking related skills and concepts Black & White: Yes Binding: Paperback Copyright: 2011 ISBN: 9781601441454 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co Printed In: USA Typical High School Credits Earned: 1/2 credit critical thinking Faith-Based: No Awards and Endorsements: Cathy Duffy - 101 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum review by Flanders Family Homelife ”A student who sticks with the course through the end should be well-grounded in the processes that constitute critical thinking...” Read the Review

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Typically counted as 1/2 credit for high school students.
 
James Madison Critical Thinking Course
Engage your teen in captivating crime-related scenarios and give him the necessary critical thinking skills with the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Superbly easy for any homeschool family to use. The step-by-step, self-instructional lessons and activities are straightforward and applicable across your teen's entire curriculum.
 
The James Madison Critical Thinking Course Uses mini-mysteries and a fictional detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Each chapter of the James Madison Critical Thinking Course focuses on various thinking skills and leads your teen gradually into complicated analytical skills. 
 
Massive in scope, the course teaches more than sixty-five skills and concepts related to critical thinking. Your student will learn to distinguish a fact from an opinion, recognize ambiguity in a statement, evaluate arguments as valid or not, and assess common fallacies in reasoning.
 
Everything in a typical introductory logic course is included in the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Pages are perforated for easy removal and are reproducible for your home use. <a class="editor-rtfLink" href="http://www.timberdoodle.com/James_Madison_Critical_Thinking_Course_Guide_p/410-402.htm" target="_blank">The Instruction Guide (sold separately)</a> provides answers to the exercises and the quizzes but virtually no additional information.
 
 
 
 
Features Topics Include: 
<li>Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc.</li>
<li>Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations.</li>
<li>Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises, and implications.</li>
<li>Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations.</li>
<li>Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions.</li>
<li>Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation.</li>
<li>Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak.</li>
<li>Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support.</li>
<li>Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument.</li>
<li>Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc.</li>
<li>Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional.</li>
<li>Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc.</li>
<li>Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping, appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence.</li>
<li>Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical.</li>
 
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Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc.
Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations.
Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises, and implications.
Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations.
Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions.
Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation.
Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak.
Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support.
Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument.
Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc.
Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional.
Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc.
Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping, appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence.
Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical.Typically counted as 1 credit for high school students.
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Answers are located in the back of this book.
Publisher's Information Authors: William O'Meara, Ph.D and Daniel Flage, Ph.D Pages: 544, perforated Activities: Sixty-five critical thinking related skills and concepts Black &amp; White: Yes Binding: Paperback Copyright: 2011 ISBN: 9781601441454 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co Printed In: USA Typical High School Credits Earned: 1/2 credit critical thinking Faith-Based: No <img src="//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1994/4551/files/ribbon_large.gif?v=1500415094" alt="">Awards and Endorsements: Cathy Duffy - 101 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum
 
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Typically counted as 1 credit for high school students. Practical Critical Thinking Grades 9-12 With increasing episodes of fake news and social media's inclination to believe and repeat it, your teen needs to learn how to think critically. He needs Practical Critical Thinking. This colorful 384-page book will give your teen the knowledge he will need to develop and practice critical thinking skills in his day-to-day life. Through fun, real-life-based activities, games, and puzzles, Practical Critical Thinking will build a strong foundation in the essential thinking skills necessary to help your teen apply critical thinking directly to his own life. The occasional group activities can be easily adapted for a homeschool setting. The detailed, 304-page Teacher's Manual is highly recommended and is included in this bundle. Note: Some pages included may not be suitable for all families. Most notable are the pages that discuss how retailers aim for "sex appeal" in advertising. While this wouldn't be appropriate for all ages, high school graduates will need to know how to discern this among other advertising ploys. Features View Sample Pages Answers are located in the back of this book.Publisher's Information: Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co Pages: 384, Color Author: Catherine Connors-Nelson Reproducible: Yes ISBN: 978-1-60144-664-0 Format: Paperback Typical High School Credits Earned: 1 credit critical thinking Faith-Based: No Awards and Endorsements: Tillywig Brain Child Award, 2015

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Download sample pages from Can You Find Me PreK (PDF) Experts agree that riddles boost children’s intelligence by exposing them to critical thinking and problem-solving. Riddles can also improve creativity and are an excellent warm-up exercise for your pre-kindergartner's brain. Can You Find Me will give your child ample opportunities to think and reason, with 100 mind-building riddles that introduce critical thinking and systematic analysis. To solve each colorful rhyming riddle, your child may need to identify similarities and differences, recognize sequences, classify objects, or interpret analogies. These are concepts found in most state and national standards. Can You Find Me challenges require understanding two or more clues to deduce the answer. No pencilwork is necessary, as your child can either point to a picture or answer verbally. Can You Find Me covers reading readiness, science, math, and social studies and includes answers and a chart of skills developed in each activity. Features Start your pre-kindergartner on the road to critical thinking! Answers are located in the back of this book.Publisher's Information Pages: 112- Full ColorBinding: Paperback Copyright: ISBN: 978-0-89455-793-4 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co. Consumable: If desired Reproducible: Yes

Download sample pages from <a href="http://www.criticalthinking.com/media/blfa_files/03801.pdf" target="new">Can You Find Me PreK (PDF)</a> Experts agree that riddles boost children’s intelligence by exposing them to critical thinking and problem-solving. Riddles can also improve creativity and are an excellent warm-up exercise for your pre-kindergartner's brain. Can You Find Me will give your child ample opportunities to think and reason, with 100 mind-building riddles that introduce critical thinking and systematic analysis. To solve each colorful rhyming riddle, your child may need to identify similarities and differences, recognize sequences, classify objects, or interpret analogies. These are concepts found in most state and national standards. Can You Find Me challenges require understanding two or more clues to deduce the answer. No pencilwork is necessary, as your child can either point to a picture or answer verbally. Can You Find Me covers reading readiness, science, math, and social studies and includes answers and a chart of skills developed in each activity.
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 Answers are located in the back of this book. Publisher's Information Pages: 112- Full Color Binding: Paperback Copyright: ISBN: 978-0-89455-793-4 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co. Consumable: If desired Reproducible: Yes</div>

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Download sample pages for James Madison Critical Thinking Course Answer Guide (PDF) Typically counted as 1/2 credit for high school students. This instruction guide provides answers to the exercises and quizzes for the James Madison Critical Thinking Course but virtually no additional resource information. The student book for the course is sold separately. James Madison Critical Thinking Course Engage your teen in captivating crime-related scenarios and give him the necessary critical thinking skills with the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Superbly easy for any homeschool family to use. The step-by-step, self-instructional lessons and activities are straightforward and applicable across your teen's entire curriculum. The James Madison Critical Thinking Course Uses mini-mysteries and a fictional detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Each chapter of the James Madison Critical Thinking Course focuses on various thinking skills and leads your teen gradually into complicated analytical skills. Massive in scope, the course teaches more than sixty-five skills and concepts related to critical thinking. Your student will learn to distinguish a fact from an opinion, recognize ambiguity in a statement, evaluate arguments as valid or not, and assess common fallacies in reasoning. Everything in a typical introductory logic course is included in the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Pages are perforated for easy removal and are reproducible for your home use. Features Topics Include: Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc. Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations. Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises, and implications. Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations. Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions. Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation. Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak. Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support. Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument. Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc. Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional. Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc. Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping, appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence. Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical. Features Answers are located in the back of this book. Publisher's Information Authors: William O'Meara, Ph.D and Daniel Flage, Ph.D Pages: 80 Activities: Sixty-five critical thinking related skills and concepts Black & White: Yes Binding: Paperback Copyright: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-60144-267-3 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co Printed In: USA Faith-Based: No Awards and Endorsements: Cathy Duffy - 101 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum

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Typically counted as 1/2 credit for high school students.
 
This instruction guide provides answers to the exercises and quizzes for the James Madison Critical Thinking Course but virtually no additional resource information. <a href="http://www.timberdoodle.com/James_Madison_Critical_Thinking_Course_p/410-401.htm" class="editor-rtfLink" data-mce-fragment="1" data-mce-href="http://www.timberdoodle.com/James_Madison_Critical_Thinking_Course_p/410-401.htm" target="_blank">The student book</a> for the course is sold separately.
 
James Madison Critical Thinking Course
Engage your teen in captivating crime-related scenarios and give him the necessary critical thinking skills with the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Superbly easy for any homeschool family to use. The step-by-step, self-instructional lessons and activities are straightforward and applicable across your teen's entire curriculum.
 
The James Madison Critical Thinking Course Uses mini-mysteries and a fictional detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Each chapter of the James Madison Critical Thinking Course focuses on various thinking skills and leads your teen gradually into complicated analytical skills. 
 
Massive in scope, the course teaches more than sixty-five skills and concepts related to critical thinking. Your student will learn to distinguish a fact from an opinion, recognize ambiguity in a statement, evaluate arguments as valid or not, and assess common fallacies in reasoning.
 
Everything in a typical introductory logic course is included in the James Madison Critical Thinking Course. Pages are perforated for easy removal and are reproducible for your home use.
 
  
 Features Topics Include: 
<li>Interpret and apply complex texts, instructions, illustrations, etc.</li>
<li>Recognize and clarify issues, claims, arguments, and explanations.</li>
<li>Distinguish: conclusions, premises (reasons), arguments, explanations, assumptions (stated/unstated), issues, claims (statements), suppositions, unstated conclusions, unstated premises, and implications.</li>
<li>Recognize ambiguity and unclearness in claims, arguments, and explanations.</li>
<li>Distinguish necessary and sufficient conditions.</li>
<li>Describe the structure or outline of arguments and explanations: confirmation, disconfirmation.</li>
<li>Evaluate whether an inductive argument is strong or weak.</li>
<li>Evaluate claims and arguments in terms of criteria such as: consistency, relevance, support.</li>
<li>Evaluate analogical arguments and inductive generalization arguments in terms of criteria, such as: the greater the number of similarities between the conclusion and the premises regarding the sample, the stronger the argument.</li>
<li>Assess the relevance of claims to other claims, and to questions, descriptions, representations, procedures, information, directives, rules, principles, etc.</li>
<li>Evaluate whether a deductive argument is valid or invalid (logical form): categorical, truth-functional, and semantic/definitional.</li>
<li>Distinguish supporting, conflicting, compatible, and equivalent claims, arguments, explanations, descriptions, representations, etc.</li>
<li>Identify and avoid errors in reasoning, informal fallacies: begging the question, equivocation, post hoc, ergo propter hoc (after that, therefore, because of that), false dilemma/false dichotomy fallacy (line drawing fallacy, perfectionist fallacy), smoke screen/red herring/rationalizing, hasty generalization, appeal to ridicule/sarcasm, ad hominem fallacy (personal attack, poisoning the well), appeal to illegitimate authority, loaded question, evidence surrogate, stereotyping, appeal to consequences (favorable or unfavorable), "wishful thinking", genetic fallacy, biased generalization, anecdotal evidence.</li>
<li>Discern whether pairs of claims are consistent, contrary, contradictory, or paradoxical.</li>
 
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Publisher's Information Authors: William O'Meara, Ph.D and Daniel Flage, Ph.D Pages: 80 Activities: Sixty-five critical thinking related skills and concepts Black &amp; White: Yes Binding: Paperback Copyright: 2011 ISBN: 978-1-60144-267-3 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co Printed In: USA Faith-Based: No <img src="//cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1994/4551/files/ribbon_large.gif?v=1500415094" alt="">Awards and Endorsements: Cathy Duffy - 101 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum

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James Madison Critical Thinking Course Teacher Guide

Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 2 Visual perception is among the last skills a child develops, yet it is a skill that he will use for a lifetime. Whether your child is reading, finishing a puzzle, or doing open-heart surgery, proficiency in visual perception is mandatory. Aimed at an elementary-age child, Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 2 exercises are presented in a clear, uncluttered format, perfect for the easily distracted child. With sections on visual discrimination, visual sequencing, and five other topics, students will enjoy Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 2 so much that they won't know they are learning. Each topic begins with a pre-test and ends with a post-test so that you can marvel at the progress that your child has made. Visual activities include discrimination, form constancy, motor/graphomotor, spatial relationships, closure, memory, and more. This book also works well for older children who struggle with visual perception. Download sample pages from Visual Perceptual Book 2 (PDF) Features Answers are located in the back of this book.Publisher's Information Author: Raya Burstein Pages: 200 Black & White: Yes Activities: 232 Binding: Paperback Copyright: 2000 ISBN: 0-89455-755-6 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co Made In: USA Consumable: Yes Reproducible: Yes, for use within your own home or classroom. Not for any commercial entity or organization. Faith-Based: No

Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 2
Visual perception is among the last skills a child develops, yet it is a skill that he will use for a lifetime. Whether your child is reading, finishing a puzzle, or doing open-heart surgery, proficiency in visual perception is mandatory.
 
Aimed at an elementary-age child, Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 2 exercises are presented in a clear, uncluttered format, perfect for the easily distracted child. 
 
With sections on visual discrimination, visual sequencing, and five other topics, students will enjoy Visual Perceptual Skill Building Book 2 so much that they won't know they are learning.
 
Each topic begins with a pre-test and ends with a post-test so that you can marvel at the progress that your child has made. 
 
Visual activities include discrimination, form constancy, motor/graphomotor, spatial relationships, closure, memory, and more.
 
This book also works well for older children who struggle with visual perception.
 
 
 
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Answers are located in the back of this book. Publisher's Information Author: Raya Burstein Pages: 200 Black &amp; White: Yes Activities: 232 Binding: Paperback Copyright: 2000 ISBN: 0-89455-755-6 Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co Made In: USA Consumable: Yes Reproducible: Yes, for use within your own home or classroom. Not for any commercial entity or organization. Faith-Based: No

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These thinking skills books are among our favorites because of their tremendous scope. They develop four basic analytical skills (similarities/differences, sequences, classification, and analogies) through both figural and verbal problems. In addition, there are problems dealing with deductive reasoning, map skills, Venn diagrams, mental manipulation of two-dimensional objects, and much more. Studies have shown that students using these books have raised their national test scores significantly in both content and cognitive tests! What's more, these books are never boring!

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