Skill Sharpeners Critical Thinking – Grade 2

Description

Foster your second 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 2nd grade themes:

– Animals: Alligators and Turtles; Bats and Bugs

– My Body: Eyes, Teeth, and Hair; Hands and Feet

– Things: Things We Use; Things We Like

– Places: Oceans and Forests; Deserts

Grade 2 activities include puzzles, word problems, riddles, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as:

– Analyze

– Solve

– Justify

– 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