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Evan-Moor's New Critical and Creative Thinking Activities Helps Grades 1–6+ Teachers Integrate Thinking Skills Into the Curriculum
Imaginative activities help students develop the thinking skills they need to succeed in today's competitive, rapidly changing, technology-based environment.
MONTEREY, CALIF. (January 21, 2009) - Evan-Moor Educational Publishers introduces Critical and Creative Thinking Activities, a series of six titles for grades 1–6+ designed to help students practice a variety of thinking skills, including thinking fluency, originality, generalizing, patterning, and problem solving. The imaginative activities in each book motivate students as they practice thinking in multiple ways about a variety of curriculum- and theme-based topics. It's the perfect resource to provide students with fun and productive free-time activities or to supplement thematic and seasonal units.
In order to help students successfully tackle the challenges presented by higher education and a globally competitive workforce, today's teachers are looking for new and innovative ways to infuse the skills students need to be successful in the 21st-century into their curricula. Unfortunately, most teachers feel that their curricula are missing the materials that help students learn to think critically and creatively. That's where Evan-Moor's Critical and Creative Thinking Activities can help.
"Analyzing information, applying sound reasoning to make hard decisions, knowing how to ask the right kinds of questions -- these are all thinking skills that students can be taught," explains Evan-Moor Publisher and Co-founder, Joy Evans. "Critical and Creative Thinking Activities provides teachers with engaging activities that help develop these important skills. And the activities are correlated to standards in language arts and mathematics, so they easily integrate into teachers' pre-existing lesson plans."
From brain teasers, syllogisms, and logic puzzles to mazes, Venn diagrams, and secret codes, each book in the series features a wealth of motivating activities that students can't wait to work on. And with 46 three-page units that are centered on grade-appropriate themes and topics, it's easy to find activities that appeal to students' interests.
The engaging activities can provide productive independent work for the class while the teacher instructs small groups. The reproducible pages are also perfect as a language arts supplement for their thematic and seasonal units, or as free-time activities that develop important skills.
Available now, each grade-level edition contains 160 reproducible pages and is priced at $19.99.
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For more information contact:
Megan Murray
Marketing Communications Coordinator
Phone: 831-649-5901 ext. 116
Email: meganm@evan-moor.com