Acknowledging that reasoning ability has been identified by the College Board as one of the six basic academic competencies, this guide is intended to help secondary school language arts teachers integrate critical thinking skills into their curriculum. The guide is divided into the following sections: (1) test-taking skills (summary of college related tests, general strategies, SAT and PSAT/NMSQT, analogies, antonyms, sentence completions, reading comprehension, test of standard written English, ACT, Advanced Placement Test, and Assessment of Skills for Successful Entry and Transfer); (2) questioning strategies (Bloom's Taxonomy, sample question items, oral questioning strategies, and student-generated questioning); (3) literature (labeling thought processes, group activities, teaching poetry, projects and enrichment, bulletin board, and testing); (4) writing (clustering, freewriting, writing groups, revision strategies, sentence combining, journals, metaphors, dictation, research, and essay questions); (5) logic (patterning, making inferences, drawing analogies, speculating/cause and effect, syllogisms, fallacies in logic, and brain teasers); and (6) vocabulary (identification of new words, context, word elements, word relationships/synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, acronyms, analogies, categories of words, Americanisms/euphemisms, and dictionary skills). (HOD)