Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Grade 2 - Paperback
Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking Grade 2 - Paperback
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by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers (Author)
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
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