Skill Sharpeners Critical Thinking – Grade 5

Description

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