Evan-Moor Daily Higher-Order Thinking Grades 1-4 Review And Flip Through

This is an Evan-Moor’s Daily Higher-Order Thinking Grade 1-4 Review and Flip Through. We did this workbook for the first time in the past school year. The kids enjoyed it enough that for logic; I had very little grumbling. So that was a good thing. I decided to go ahead and do a review on it since I would say that we enjoyed this.

We finished the grades 1 and 2. This year’s goal is to see if we can finish grade 3 and maybe get to grade 4.

I expect grades 3 and 4 to be tougher, so I definitely will scale my expectations.

The daily higher-order thinking series runs from grades 1 to 6, but you can apply that however, you choose to.

It correlates with current standards if that’s important to you.

They set it up where it can be done over a 30 week period with an average of about 20 minutes of daily activities a day. That will vary based on the activity that you’re doing, probably even the grade. And how hard it is for your child.

All right, it practices over 50 behavior verbs. It applies thinking skills and language arts, math, science, and social studies context. So as they’re doing logic, they are touching on a lot of the core subject areas.

The Layout

All right, so it is black and white. I’m not sure if that’s something that would be important to you, but it wasn’t an issue for us.

The front part is more or less the same for all of them. First, you have your table of contents. Then it tells you about higher-order thinking skills. What are the higher-order thinking skills? Why is it essential to practice higher-order thinking skills? It gives you 10 tips for tackling tough tasks and 30 weeks of challenges. The answer key is to the back of the book. It gives you some teaching tips that you can read if you choose to. Then you have your behavioral verbs, and each of them has a slightly different amount.

The grade 1, there were 66 words and phrases. Grade 2 has 59, grade 3 has 61, and grade 4 has 64.

Now, in each book, a lot of the words are repeated throughout the book. So, as they go through each grade, they will use that behavioral verb several times. Thus they are improving on their ability to apply that behavioral verb. If they were to continue with the series, they will use the same behavior verbs several times. But the activities, as they go up in grades, get a little more complicated, and it adds a few extra words to each grade.

They simplify the definitions to not include words that may be difficult for a grade 1 student. The definitions look closer to dictionary definitions as they go up in grades. I give a few examples in the video.

Some words that may be difficult for a grade 1 child to understand are introduced later in grade 1. But that same word is presented earlier, as they move up in the series. Check out examples in the video.

My Takeaways

Pros

I like this series because, as they are doing logic, they are doing a bit of the core subject areas.

The exercises are short.

The exercises get more difficult as they move on, even within each grade.

They get to draw in quite a few of the exercises. So if your kids like to draw, that would be nice for them. Mine loved that.

The series touched on some good social studies topics. A few exercises include games they can play.

Grade 4 has quite a few puzzles. (Word games and puzzles I enjoy. And nothing is wrong with having school work you as the parent can enjoy if you’re working with your kids. Any help along this journey I will take, thank you.)