Smarty Pants Puzzles are fun, quick, and engaging and best of all they develop a host of critical thinking skills. Students must read the puzzle and analyze the pictures looking for evidence needed to answer the questions. This depth of analysis produces strong reading comprehension skills and teaches students how to find and evaluate evidence. These puzzles can be solved independently or used for educational fun at home or in a classroom.
Skills:
· Inference
· Deduction
· Conclusion
· Identification and Analysis of Evidence
· Synthesis and Analysis of Comprehension