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
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
About Evan-Moor
A leader in PreK–8 educational publishing, Evan-Moor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.