Can You Find Me? Early Learning, Building Thinking Skills for Pre-Kindergarten
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Description
Award-winning 112-page printable PDF ebook for PreK starting your students on the road to critical thinking!
This fun, colorful book of mind-building riddles introduces young minds to critical thinking and organized analysis. To solve the riddles, students practice:
• Identifying Similarities and Differences
• Forming/Following Sequences and Patterns
• Classifying Objects and Groups
• Identifying/Interpreting Analogies
• Logic
The riddles in this book develop thinking skills as students learn math, reading, science, and social studies. These activities are fun as well as educational. They engage students in learning, develop listening skills, and require critical thinking. They also provide you with many opportunities to teach children new concepts and information related to the different riddle topics.
The riddles should be read aloud. They are not designed to be used by students independently. Students can answer orally or point to the correct answer. You may need to reread a riddle and prompt a student with questions that focus him/her on important information (clues) necessary to solve the riddle. For optimal academic benefit, you should question and discuss not only your student’s answer but also the thinking he or she used to solve the riddle.
The riddles also teach the following concepts found in most state and national standards:
Math—counting, shape and number recognition, recognizing and completing patterns, spatial position, more/less/equal, ordinal numbers (first, third, etc.), part/whole measurement
Reading Readiness—letter recognition, rhyming words, letter-sound association, letter sequence, sight words, directionality
Science—animal attributes, weather/seasons, senses, body parts, plants/plant growth, force/motion
Social Studies—family, community helpers, health and safety, identifying locations
Each riddle requires identification of two or more clues to deduce the answer. Students either point to a picture or verbalize the answer. Activities may be enhanced by teaching additional information about the animals, objects, shapes, letters, and numbers used in the riddles. This book includes answers and a chart of educational standards and thinking skills developed in each activity.
Winner of the Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Medal for Excellence!
Test Prep
Can You Find Me? helps prepare for many assessment tests, including:
- Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence™ (WPPSI™)
- Otis-Lennon School Ability Test® (OLSAT®)
- Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) / Talented and Gifted (TAG)
- Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT®)
- Stanford Achievement Test™ (SAT/10)
- TerraNova (CTBS) / TerraNova, The Second Edition (CAT/6)
- IA Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS®)
- Primary Test of Cognitive Skills™ (PTCS)
- and many more!
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Written by: Michael Baker and Cheryl Block
