RT Journal Article SR Electronic A1 Cibáková, Dana T1 Methods of developing critical thinking when working with educative texts JF e-Pedagogium YR 2015 VO 15 IS 2 SP 135 OP 145 DO 10.5507/epd.2015.024 UL https://e-pedagogium.upol.cz/en/artkey/epd-201502-0013.php AB The present article focuses on the field of critical thinking, specifically on methods helping to stimulate critical thinking and understanding of a written text. The article also includes a practical illustration of how critical thinking is being cultivated with relation to developing skills of reading comprehension. This practical example presents a partial output of the research that focused on pupils in the second year of primary school, and it provides a suggestion how to use in practice methods developing critical thinking by means of reading comprehension.