Students ask to do these read-aloud rhyming riddles! These fun activities develop skills in reading readiness, science, math, and social studies using five basic thinking skills: similarities and differences, sequences, classifications, analogies, and logic. Content correlated to state standards.
Each riddle requires identification of two or more clues to deduce the answer. Activities may be enhanced by teaching moreinformation about the animals, objects, shapes, letters, and numbers used in the riddles.
Includes suggested answers and a chart of the skills developed in each activity.
Standards-Based Content
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Math—counting, shape and number recognition, recognizing and completing patterns, spatial position, more/less/equal, ordinal numbers (first, third, etc.), part/whole measurement
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Reading Readiness—letter recognition, rhyming words, letter-sound association, letter sequence, sight words, directionality
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Science—animal attributes, weather/seasons, senses, body parts, plant/plant growth, force/motion
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Social Studies—family, community helpers, health and safety, identifying locations
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Skills Taught:
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Identifying Similarities & Differences
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Forming/Following Sequences & Patterns
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Classifying Objects & Groups
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Identifying/Interpreting Analogies
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Logic
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