Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Grade 5 -- Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Paperback

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

Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Published: 1/1/2017
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0 lbs
Size: 0" H x 0" L x 0" W
ISBN: 9781629383538

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