Abstract

This study aims at investigating the degree to which the analytical thinking skills are included in the reading texts and their questions contained in the Arabic language textbook for the tenth grade in Jordan. To that end, the study adopted the descriptive analytical approach, as the researchers has prepared an analysis tool that includes a list of analytical thinking skills. Having verified the validity and reliability of the tool, the researchers analyzed the reading texts and their questions in the Arabic language textbook for the tenth grade, and examined the results of the analysis. By statistical treatment of the data, the results of the study revealed the availability of analytical thinking skills in reading texts, with a frequency of (325) times, distributed over (23) sub-skills, where the skill of identifying traits and attributes ranked first with (122) recurrences, at high ratio, and the skill of classification was the least frequent, with (11) recurrence, at low ratio. The results also revealed the availability of analytical thinking skills in the reading text questions with (165) recurrences, distributed into (23) sub-skills, where forecasting skill ranked first with (37) recurrences, at high ratio. The classification skill ranked last with (11) recurrences, at low ratio. According to the results, the researchers recommended to keeping the balance between the percentages of including analytical thinking skills in reading texts and their questions in the Arabic language book for the tenth grade.