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Developing Language &
Early Critical Thinking Skills
This book is designed to develop vocabulary, concepts, and categorization skills fundamental to critical thinking. Content systematically progresses from the general category of animals to the subcategory of land animals. Land animals are then divided into five categories of land habitats: farm, forest, desert, grassland, and rainforest.
The activities target the following areas:
Receptive and expressive vocabulary
The concepts similar and different
Categorization
Critical thinking
Auditory processing
Auditory memory and recall
Sight words
Left-to-right visual scanning
These reproducible activities are interactive, fun, programmed for success, and designed to stimulate dialogue between adult and child.
Also included in the book are:
Suggestions for use
Home practice information for parents
A simple pretest/post-test
Speech-language pathologists may use these language tasks in therapy sessions, classroom presentations, and home assignments. Teachers may present these activities to supplement and expand their units on animals. Parents will find this book to be an excellent educational tool to stimulate thinking and conversation
Age: 4 to 8
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