Improve Critical Thinking | Skills Training, Activities & Exercises
Critical thinking is the bridge between concrete understanding and abstract reasoning. For many students—especially concrete learners or those who struggle with language and higher-order language processing—making this shift can be challenging. Difficulties often emerge when learners are asked to interpret multiple meanings, infer implied ideas, or “read between the lines.”
Dr. Erica Warren’s Critical Thinking Collection provides a suite of multisensory, evidence-informed tools that nurture flexible thinking, inference, and reasoning. Through engaging games, activities, and workbooks, students learn to analyze ideas from different perspectives, recognize underlying meanings, and strengthen problem-solving skills.
These resources are ideal for educational therapists, teachers, parents, and learning specialists who want to help students develop higher-order thinking, comprehension, and academic confidence—all while having fun.
What is Critical Thinking?
Critical thinking is a cognitive process of conceptualizing, analyzing, synthesizing, evaluating, and applying information that is processed from the environment, a past experience, prior knowledge, communication, and thoughts. This information is then use to determine a belief or action. As students get older, this skill becomes more and more important as they move into higher order ways of learning.
How Can Students Develop Critical Thinking Skills?
Helping students develop critical thinking skills is not as hard as you think if you use fun and engaging activities. It's also important to use multisensory materials to improve understanding and retention of new content. Part of the process involves the development of abstract thinking skills. You also want to use games to develop the understanding of concepts such as main ideas and details as well as inferences.
Some of the best products are: Abstract Thinking and Multiple Meanings, Making Inferences the Fun and Easy Way, The Main Ideer, and Hey What's the Big Idea.