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Play Paper and Pencil Games to Improve Critical Thinking

Tags

^21st Century Skills ^Extra-curricular/At-Home Elementary School Strategy

Skills

Flexible Thinking Working Memory Abstract Reasoning Visual Discrimination Spatial Perception

Play Paper and Pencil Games to Improve Critical Thinking

If your child needs to strengthen critical reasoning or visual attention and would enjoy games at home

Try These Games With Your Students

  1. Tic-tac-toe or Dots and Boxes (strategy and patterning)
  2. Foldovers Games (creative thinking, spatial skills)
  3. Color by Code or Find It/I Spy (visual processing)
  4. Dictionary Game (flexible thinking)
  5. Hangman and Word Searches (spelling, critical thinking)

Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

These are several fun and easy activities to practice patterning and analysis, problem solving, planning, attention and working memory. Players must use strategic thinking, plan ahead, and maintain focus during these games that can be played either independently or collaboratively. These games can be a lot of fun and won't feel like school while develop critical learning skills.