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 Critical
Thinking
Activities to Improve
Writing Skills
Books: reproducible for
single-home use
Descriptive Mysteries
Whatcha-Macallits
Where-Abouts
Arguments
grades 4-6
grades 7-12
Series Goals--This
series encourages children to think, choose their words carefully, and produce
clear, concise, accurate, and persuasive writing. For higher grades, better test
scores, and effective everyday communications, few skills are more important
than good writing!
Objectives--Each
book helps children improve the specific types of writing skills described
below.
 | Descriptive Mysteries helps
children observe and discriminate between large and small similarities and
differences and describe objects in detail. Reading level grade 4, grades
4-6 ability. 46 reproducible activities.
| Where-Abouts
develops children’s visual imagery and discrimination and helps them learn
to organize information as well as write and follow directions. Reading
level grade 4, grades 4-6 ability. 56 reproducible activities.
| Arguments
enables children to improve analysis and written argumentation skills
crucial to good expository writing. Reading level grade 5, grades 7-12
ability. 16 reproducible activities.
| Whatcha-Macallits
increases children’s ability to distinguish between similar/dissimilar
attributes, recognize patterns, improve classification skills, and describe
classes of objects in writing. Reading level grade 5, grades 7-12 ability.
59 reproducible activities. |
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Teaching suggestions, questioning strategies, and answers are
included in each book.
SKILLS DEVELOPED
| Writing: descriptive, expository, creative, analytical,
sequential, persuasive
| Drawing inferences
| Understanding and creating analogies
| Determining relevant information
| Distinguishing fact and opinion
| Map reading
| Following directions
| Evaluating information
| Identifying premises and conclusions
| Cause-and-effect reasoning
| Sequencing
| Classifying
| Constructing an argument |
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"These activities are
actually quite fun."
--Cathy Duffy,
Christian Home Educators' Curriculum Manual
"I was so happy to find Critical
Thinking Activities to Improve Writing Skills. My daughter found the Descriptive
Mysteries both challenging and fun, and the Where-Abouts taught
her many things that she used in her everyday life. She was the navigator on
our last vacation and she got a big kick out of giving her father map
directions. She was so proud of herself. Thank you for a great series!”
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