Evan-Moor Skill Sharpeners Critical Thinking, Grade 4 Workbook, Problem Solving Skills, Fun Activities, Higher-Order, Open-Ended Questions and Challenges, Science, Math, Social Studies, Language Arts

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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 Review: Highly recommend - This is a well though out book with various activities throughout to engage the child. It's not all writing. Sometimes there are little glue together activities, or coloring etc. It's on point with the level of a child. I have this book for 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. After having used the 3rd grade book I knew I wanted to keep it as part of curriculum for the following years in home school. This is not curriculum on its own though. I know some parents hand their kids packets or notebooks and kind of let them free learn on their own without any real explanations, but this book won't teach your child how to do the work or do the math etc. It doesn't explain how to compute or how to connect the dots of thinking. Some of the critical thinking portions are best to let the child try first, and provide any help along the way if they can't figure it out completely, but for others the teaching must be provided before the child can begin. The books and activities themselves aren't hard exactly, but the information is presented in many different ways so a child can't learn how to look at one activity a certain way and use that method all through the book. They have to develop a flexible mind to dissect each activity. This is what I liked most about it. I highly recommend this series. Review: Easy to teach - Helped my son alot