Daily HigherOrder Thinking, Grade 1

Critical Thinking Skills Are More Important Than Ever In Academic And Real-World Situations. Daily Higher-Order Thinking Provides You With Daily Activities That Build And Grow Students?? Problem-Solving Skills In Engaging Formats Such As Logic And Visual Puzzles, Brainteasers, Creative Writing, Picture Comparison, Word Play, And ??What If? Questions. Daily 20-Minute Practice Lessons Help Students Apply Critical Thinking Skills Across Subject Areas. The Lessons Develop Students?? Higher-Order Thinking Skills And Allow Them To Integrate Their Learning And Make Deeper Connections Between Their Learning And The Real World.Use Daily Higher-Order Thinking For Warm-Up Exercises, Extension Activities, Early Finisher Tasks And Small-Group Center Activities To Develop Your Students?? Critical And Creative Thinking Skills. How It Works:? Monday??Friday: Full-Page Daily Activities Focus On A Specific Behavioral Verb Each Day. The Verb Is Defined At The Top Of The Page So Students Become Aware Of When And How They Are Using The Thinking Skill. ? Each Full-Page Activity Gives Students An Opportunity To Practice A Higher-Order Thinking Skill In The Context Of A Different Curriculum Area. ? Questions And Tasks Are Open-Ended And Can Be Used To Promote Peer-To-Peer Discussions As Students Share And Discuss Answers, While Also Fostering Critical Thinking Skills. ? An Answer Key Provides Sample Responses For Each Day??S Activities. Evaluate Students?? Responses Based On Your Own Expectations And On What Content Your Students Have Encountered.Grade 1 Activities Include: Logic Puzzles, Language Play, Creative Writing, Drawing, And Visual Brainteasers. Daily Lessons Practice Higher-Order Thinking Skills Such As:? Comparing? Grouping? Identifying? Inferring? Solving