Teaching Critical Thinking and Specialized Study Skills, textbook

Critical thinking and specialized study skills assist a reader to obtain information more readily and to transfer the information so it makes sense. Teachers use a variety of written materials, literary genre, and content texts to teach such skills. This text will assist teachers in helping students to accommodate to a different style of writing, which is characterized by tenseness, density of ideas, and inclusion of many unfamiliar and different concepts. Specialized study skills enable students to learn to use resources necessary for effective reading.