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Read Mystery Stories to Develop Critical Thinking Skills

Tags

ELA: Reading ^21st Century Skills ^Extra-curricular/At-Home K-8 Strategy

Skills

Flexible Thinking Verbal Reasoning Abstract Reasoning

Read Mystery Stories to Develop Critical Thinking Skills

If your child struggles to "connect the dots" between ideas and enjoys reading

How To Apply It!

  1. Children can develop important reasoning skills through mystery novels and movies, as well as playing "What if?".
  2. Read or watch mysteries together to encourage your child to figure out the outcome based on details and clues in the story.
  3. Pause reading or the movie to analyze events and clues and ask each other, "I wonder what that means," or "This must be a clue about..."
  4. Model taking a guess based on these clues and have your child make her own guess about what might happen and why.

Why It Works (the Science Of Learning)!

Mystery stories offer limited details which the reader or viewer must piece together to figure out what events actually transpired.