Verbal reasoning thinking skills include using reasoning, flexibility, fluency, and adaptability in working with words and solving verbal problems.
Some things you could do to support children’s growth in this area include:
Read a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, biography, poetry, memoir
Generate a list of questions about a vocabulary word, a story, a character, a setting, etc.
Create a drawing, model, or action for vocabulary words
Write vocabulary word definitions in your own words
Write synonyms and antonyms for unknown words
Learn Greek and Latin word roots
Learn which English words are based upon words from other languages
Analyze multiple-meaning words and decide when to use each meaning
Use fantasy to discuss vocabulary words or write stories
Write a sentence where each word begins with letters in alphabetical order
Create new titles for pictures, stories, cartoons, etc.
Create riddles, jokes, cartoons
Create new idioms (“in hot water”)
Create new similes (“mean as a snake”)
Create analogies, “How is a ____ like a ____?”
Write poetry in different styles.
Put poetry to percussion music.
Use adjectives and adverbs
Perform plays, puppet shows, readers’theatre.
Create dialogue from an unusual perspective, like that of an animal, an object, a historical person, etc.
Research the facts behind historical fiction, write historical fiction
Learn a foreign language
Participate in such programs as Georgia State Saturday School
Attend plays or puppet shows at such places as Center for Puppetry Arts or Kudzu Playhouse
Read books that use content creatively, such as The Phantom Tollbooth by Juster and Lost in Lexicon by Noyce
Use Enrichment Sites on www.fultongifted.org
Use resources such as Tin Man Press, Bright Ideas, Gifted and Talented Workbook Series, Creative Learning Press, Creative Teaching Press, Critical Thinking
Co.
Some things you could do to support children’s growth in this area include:
Read a variety of genres, including fiction, non-fiction, biography, poetry, memoir
Generate a list of questions about a vocabulary word, a story, a character, a setting, etc.
Create a drawing, model, or action for vocabulary words
Write vocabulary word definitions in your own words
Write synonyms and antonyms for unknown words
Learn Greek and Latin word roots
Learn which English words are based upon words from other languages
Analyze multiple-meaning words and decide when to use each meaning
Use fantasy to discuss vocabulary words or write stories
Write a sentence where each word begins with letters in alphabetical order
Create new titles for pictures, stories, cartoons, etc.
Create riddles, jokes, cartoons
Create new idioms (“in hot water”)
Create new similes (“mean as a snake”)
Create analogies, “How is a ____ like a ____?”
Write poetry in different styles.
Put poetry to percussion music.
Use adjectives and adverbs
Perform plays, puppet shows, readers’theatre.
Create dialogue from an unusual perspective, like that of an animal, an object, a historical person, etc.
Research the facts behind historical fiction, write historical fiction
Learn a foreign language
Participate in such programs as Georgia State Saturday School
Attend plays or puppet shows at such places as Center for Puppetry Arts or Kudzu Playhouse
Read books that use content creatively, such as The Phantom Tollbooth by Juster and Lost in Lexicon by Noyce
Use Enrichment Sites on www.fultongifted.org
Use resources such as Tin Man Press, Bright Ideas, Gifted and Talented Workbook Series, Creative Learning Press, Creative Teaching Press, Critical Thinking
Co.