Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Grade 4

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

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