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Daily Mind Builders™: Language Arts

Quick, Fun Brain Energizers

Grades: 5-12+

Critical Thinking, Language Arts

Grades: 5-12+

Critical Thinking, Language Arts

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Daily Mind Builders™: Language Arts

Daily Mind Builders™: Language Arts 3 5 5 1
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04601BBP

Description and Features

Quick, fun brain energizers!

Description and Features

This 136-page book is comprised of intriguing activity pages to wake up sleepy brains for the day's lessons.  Each activity page takes about 5-15-minutes to solve and develops the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill assessed on standardized reading tests. This comprehension skill usually determines a student's reading score–and every Daily Mind Builders™: Language Arts activity develops this skill.

The first puzzle is a short, true mystery. Its solution requires careful reading, inferential reasoning, and deductive thinking. The second puzzle involves deductive thinking, and is designed to build vocabulary and associative thinking skills.  This puzzle uses a process of elimination involving the meanings of words or relationships between words. Try a sample and you'll be hooked!

The best use of these books is when presented as a non-threatening, non-graded, fun activity where students are praised for all logical answers even if they don't happen to be the correct answers. Remember, in critical thinking, the journey is as important as the destination, and all reasonable efforts at critical thinking should be commended.

These intriguing puzzles can also be used as a:
     •  Motivational beginning activity as an addition to the curriculum.
     •  Culminating activity after a lesson or at the end of the day.
     •  Fill-in activity when there is an awkward time break during the school day.
     •  Valid educational activity for students who finish assigned activities earlier than their classmates.

Optional Thinking Map!
Some students benefit by filling out the optional reproducible Daily Mind Builders™ Thinking Map each time they solve an activity page.

Product Details

Item#: 04601BBP
Author(s): Jennifer Gottstein
TOC: View Table of Contents
Subject: Critical Thinking, Language Arts
Type: Student Book with Answers
Media: Paperback Book
License: Reproducible
ISBN–10: 1-60144-201-7
ISBN–13: 978-1-60144-201-7
Pages: 136, perforated

Awards

Creative Child Magazine - Book of the Year

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Sep 11, 2020
We use these as a fun supplement to our regular curriculum. I appreciate the fact that it causes kids to actually think.
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Apr 7, 2013
A true thinking activity. I loved it!
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Apr 7, 2013
I would definitely use this resource with my students, as they love mysteries and puzzles with challenges.
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