Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Prek -- Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Paperback

Foster your child's critical thinking skills and see confidence soar! Children are naturally inquisitive from infancy, yet creative and problem-solving skills need to be nurtured as children grow. Like reading and math skills, critical thinking skills require practice. The variety of fun and creative activities in this series will challenge your child to use higher-order thinking skills based on Bloom's Taxonomy. Every page provides a new and interesting activity that will help your child: Think outside the box and use higher-order thinking skills through open-ended questions and challenges Tap into his or her creativity with art projects and hands-on activities Become a better learner by practicing critical thinking skills in cross-curricular activities (based on PreK science, math, social studies, and language arts content) The 100+ activities are organized around these PreK themes: Insects: Butterflies and Grasshoppers; Honeybees and Ladybugs Weather: Different Types of Weather; We Dress for the Weather Transportation: Cars, Trucks, and Buses; Planes, Trains, and Boats Community: Homes in My Community; Places to Visit PreK activities include tracing, counting, dot-to-dot, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as: Recall and Retell Analyze Solve Determine Create, and more! Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing. Use Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking for enrichment at home and help your child become a confident problem solver! Includes answer key. Every Skill Sharpeners workbook now includes a free downloadable Teaching Guide! Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Teaching Guides include How to Use directions for teaching critical thinking skills Sample pacing guide to complete lessons and activities Teaching suggestions for learning to problem solve Extension activities that include journals, behavioral verbs, and additional discussion topics

Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Published: 01/01/2017
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 10.80h x 8.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781629383477
Audience: Baby-Preschool