Foster your fifth grader's critical thinking skills and see confidence soar with this engaging full-color workbook!
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 Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking 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 science, math, social studies, and language arts content)
The 100+ activities are organized around these 5th grade themes:
• - Places: At Home; Around Town
• - Nature: Forests and Deserts; Mountains and Caves
• - About You: How You Feel; What You Do
• - Resources: We Use Natural Resources; We Use Man-made Things
Grade 5 activities include puzzles, word problems, riddles, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as:
• - Analyze
• - Solve
• - Determine
• - Categorize
• - Create, and more!
Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing.
Includes answer key.
Every Skill Sharpeners workbook now includes a free downloadable Teaching Guide! The 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

Product Details

Format: Paperback | 144 pages
Language: English
ISBN: 9781629383538
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publication date: 1 Jan 2017
Category: Reference / workbook
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Dimensions: 21.0 x 1.3 x 27.4 cm
Weight: 456 g