Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Grade 4 -- Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Paperback

Foster your fourth 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 4th grade themes:

  • - Animals: Wild Cats; Ocean Animals
  • - Natural Forces: Rain, Snow, and Sun; Storms, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes
  • - Transportation: Walking and Riding; Wheels and Wings
  • - Places: At School and at the Library; The Supermarket and the Restaurant
  • Grade 4 activities include puzzles, word problems, riddles, and word games that involve critical thinking skills such as:

  • - Analyze
  • - Infer
  • - Visualize
  • - Solve
  • - 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
  • Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
    Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
    Published: 1/1/2017
    Pages: 144
    Binding Type: Paperback
    Weight: 0.8 lbs
    Size: 10.8" H x 8.3" L x 0.4" W
    ISBN: 9781629383521

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