Thinking Skills, Grades 1-2 - Teacher Reproducibles, E-book

Help your students become 21st-century problem solvers by introducing them to a broad range of critical-, creative-, and logical-thinking skills!

Interactive and reproducible activities motivate students as they practice thinking skills:

Critical Thinking

• Sorting, Classifying: Sorting the Groceries, How Will You Group Them?, Striped Things, Square Things, Puppies, Puppies, Puppies, Which Wheels for You?
• Comparing and Contrasting: Find the Twins, What's the Difference? A Rag Doll and a Puppy, A Riddle
• Analyzing: K-9s
• Observing: What Will Happen?, Using Your Five Senses, An Apple
• Ordering: Largest to Smallest, How Did It Happen?

Creative Thinking

• Fluency: Just a Pencil, Melt It!, More Than One Way, New Possibilities
• Flexibility: Beautiful Bouquets, Change the Order
• Divergent Thinking: The Spoon, Minus the Wolf
• Problem Solving: Pretzel Squares
• Original Ideas: A New Dessert
• Mental Imagery: A Side View, A Bird's Eye View, Finish the Puzzle, Two Rows of Four, Imagine It Punched

Logical Thinking

• Analogies: What's the Relationship?, Make Your Own Analogies
• Deductive Reasoning: Find the Pet Owners, Piano Lessons, Where Do They Sit?, Heat It Up
• Patterning: What Comes Next?, Giving Patterns a Code, How Many Patterns?, Make a Pattern, How Many Legs?
• Generalizing: A-1 Hairstyles, Twinkles
• Problem Solving: Look Again!