Skill Sharpeners Critical Thinking PreK

Foster your child’s critical thinking skills and see confidence soar! 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 this series 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 PreK science, math, social studies, and language arts content)

The 100+ activities are organized around these PreK themes:

Insects: Butterflies and Grasshoppers; Honeybees and Ladybugs

Weather: Different Types of Weather; We Dress for the Weather
Transportation: Cars, Trucks, and Buses; Planes, Trains, and Boats
Community: Homes in My Community; Places to Visit

PreK activities include tracing, counting, dot-to-dot, and drawings that involve critical thinking skills such as:

Recall and Retell
Analyze
Solve
Determine
Create, and more!

Plus, each page lists the critical thinking skill(s) so that you know what your child is practicing.

Use Skill Sharpeners: Critical Thinking for enrichment at home and help your child become a confident problem solver!

Includes answer key.