Sharpen sixth graders' critical-thinking skills with these brain-teasing activities. Parents, students, and teachers will love these fun challenges, puzzles, and logical thinking pages. They're a great way to practice higher-order thinking skills.

Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.

Fun and challenging activities and exercises to strengthen children's thinking skills such as logic and problem solving.

Approach analogies as puzzles. To solve them, students need to use cognitive processes and critical-thinking skills. These exercises present word and/or picture relationships in several different ways. The goal is to develop skills in visual imagery, reading comprehension, vocabulary development, reasoning and test-taking.

The Gift Of Logic (tm) Critical Thinking & Logical Reasoning Series is a set of twelve workbooks written with the goal of establishing a basic standard in cognitive thinking for K-12 students. These workbooks will help the students develop cognitive skills in three strands - Verbal Reasoning, Analytical Reasoning, and Pictorial Reasoning. Each workbook has a variety of exercises in these three strands. These workbooks can be used by college students and working professionals as well for a quick and easy introduction to logic and reasoning. Visit the Gift Of Logic website for more information. Ideal for use during the school day to keep the students challenged, and during winter and summer breaks to maintain strong thinking skills. Gifted and Talented students and Homeschoolers can use it as a comprehensive curriculum. ************************************************************************************************************************ Recommended Reading Plan: Kindergarten: Workbook-0 Grade 1: Workbook-0, Workbook-1 Grade 2: Workbook-0, Workbook-1, Workbook 2 Grade 3: Workbook-3 Optional: Workbook-0, Workbook-1, Workbook-2 Grade 4: Workbook-3, Workbook-4 Optional: Workbook-0, Workbook-1, Workbook-2 Grade 5: Workbook-3, Workbook-4, Workbook-5 Optional: Workbook-0, Workbook-1, Workbook-2 Middle School/High School/Adults : Primer, Workbook-6, Workbook-7, Workbook-8, Workbook-9, Workbook-10. Optional: Workbook-0, Workbook-1, Workbook-2, Workbook-3, Workbook-4, Workbook-5. Read all 12 workbooks to gain the benefits of a comprehensive curriculum. ************************************************************************************************************************There are four sections in this workbook - Verbal Reasoning, Analytical Reasoning, Pictorial Reasoning, and Answers. Verbal Reasoning section topics: "Assumptions" reasoning problems, "Reasoning Strategy" reasoning problems. Analytical Reasoning section topics: 9*9 Sudoku, positioning problems, grouping problems. Pictorial Reasoning section topics: Pattern perception, figure formation, paper cutting and folding, figure matrix, rule detection. Detailed answers are provided at the end of the book. After completing the exercises in this workbook, the student can proceed to do the exercises in Workbook-10.

Teaching children how to manage their thoughts and words without interrupting. Louis always interrupts! All of his thoughts are very important to him, and when he has something to say, his words rumble and grumble in his tummy, they wiggle and jiggle on his tongue and then they push on his teeth, right before he ERUPTS (or interrupts). His mouth is a volcano! But when others begin to interrupt Louis, he learns how to respectfully wait for his turn to talk. My Mouth Is A Volcano takes an empathetic approach to the habit of interrupting and teaches children a witty technique to help them manage their rambunctious thoughts and words. Told from Louis' perspective, this story provides parents, teachers, and counselors with an entertaining way to teach children the value of respecting others by listening and waiting for their turn to speak.

This workbook helps everyone develop cognitive skills by solving problems using Critical thinking and Logical reasoning. It contains three sections - Verbal reasoning, Analytical reasoning and Pictorial reasoning with lots of problems in a variety of topics. Detailed answers are included to verify your line of reasoning. It is one of a series of 12 books. Please visit http://www.giftoflogic.com for more information.