Thinking Skills for Tests: Upper Elementary
Thinking Skills for Tests builds the kind of thinking that helps your child work through questions they've never seen before. This is real reasoning practice for upper elementary grades.
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Thinking Skills for Tests: Upper Elementary
What kind of thinking helps your child work through a question he's never seen before?
Thinking Skills for Tests: Upper Elementary builds that ability step by step. Instead of focusing on memorized answers, it gives your child practice with the types of reasoning that show up across subjects—patterns, sequences, comparisons, and logic that have to be worked out, not recalled.
Each page presents a small challenge. Your child studies what's in front of him, looks for relationships, and decides what makes sense. Some questions are straightforward. Others require slowing down, checking options, and trying again.
The format stays consistent, but the reasoning deepens. Early problems help your child understand what to look for. Later ones expect him to track multiple ideas at once and choose more carefully.
There's no shortcut through it. Your child has to read closely, notice details, and work through each possibility. That's where the progress shows up.
It fits easily into short sessions, making it a steady way to build reasoning skills without turning it into a long assignment.
How to Use Thinking Skills for Tests: Upper Elementary
- Open to one page and read the directions together. Make sure your child understands what to look for before getting started.
- Let your child study the problem. Give him time to notice patterns, relationships, or what seems out of place before choosing an answer.
- Have him explain his choice, then pause and check it together. Ask, "Does that still make sense?" before moving on.
- If the answer doesn't hold up, encourage him to work through it again. Revising his thinking is part of the learning process.
- Complete a few problems, then stop. This workbook works best in short, focused sessions that keep your child thinking without becoming mentally tiring.
- Return to it regularly. A consistent pace gives your child repeated practice with the reasoning skills each new challenge requires.
Publisher: The Critical Thinking Co.
Author: Robin MacFarlane, Ph.D.
Format: Workbook
Pages: 220
ISBN: 978-1-601445-79-7
Consumable: Yes
Grade Level: 3–5
- September 18, 2026
Krystal D.
We just got this so I can't give a full 5 star yet; however it looks well written.
- April 22, 2026
QuenOScots
We just finished this book last week and it has been so useful! My son was having a hard time knowing how to answer questions especially multiple choice, estimated math, reading comprehension, and written answers. This book covered strategies to answer those types of questions and so much more. We will keep it for future reference and refresh strategies when needed. My only complaint was though most sections had a lot of practice problems a few sections did not. So you need to provide a few practice questions of your own in those sections where there was not enough practice. Overall, we highly recommend this book!
