Packed with examples and tools, this practical guide prepares teachers across all grade levels and content areas to teach the most critical cognitive skills from the Common Core State Standards. Discover a doable three-phase model of explicit teaching, guided practice in content-based lessons, and authentic application in standards-based performance tasks that will strengthen students' ability to learn across the curriculum. Contents: About the authors -- Introduction -- Section 1: Critical thinking -- Analyze -- Evaluate -- Problem solve -- Section 2: Creative thinking -- Generate -- Associate -- Hypothesize -- Section 3: Complex Thinking -- Clarify -- Interpret -- Determine -- Section 4: Comprehensive thinking -- Understand -- Infer -- Compare and contrast -- Section 5: Collaborative thinking -- Explain -- Develop -- Decide -- Section 6: Communicative thinking -- Reason -- Connect -- Represent -- Section 7: Cognitive transfer -- Synthesize -- Generalize -- Apply -- Appendix A: Reproducibles.