Use word-play and rhyming to strengthen childrens spelling skills! Spelling DooRiddles, a new line of Dr. Doolittle's DooRiddles, develops both the visual and phonetic aspects of spelling and vocabulary. Students use associative reasoning, reading comprehension, and spelling skills to solve the two part riddles.
Format: soft cover, 48 pages, 162 Activities, 8.5 x 11 inches
Type: Student Content w/ Instruction/Answer Guide
Publisher: The Critical Thinking Company
Recommended Grades: 4th-6th Grade
Methods/Teaching Support
Students analyze the first part of the riddle to identify the target word. Next, they read the second part of the riddle to determine whether to add, delete, or change the letters of the target word to produce the second word and solve the riddle. Each book includes practice activities, suggestions, and answers.
Table of Contents/Skills
Perceiving relationships between words, ideas, and concepts is called associative reasoning, which is a skill necessary for creative thought. Riddle solving requires students to use important skills of associative, inductive, and divergent thinking to find the answers. Students will learn to recognize important ideas, examine these ideas from different points of view, and then find connections between the ideas. These teachable skills are essential for efficient, successful, open-ended problem solving of all kinds. | 
