Title: Thinking Skills: Daily Brainteasers Ages 7-9 Author: Pippa Harris-Burland and Mike Fleetham Publisher: Scholastic 2006 ISBN: 978-0439965439 Format: Paperback,  A4 Size, 64  Pages

Daily Brainteasers provides stimulating activities that can be used to start the day, provide a change of pace, or at other times when you want to get children thinking. Each simple problem is quick to read and easy to apply - ready to be written out on the board or presented to your class. The book is organised to reflect four different learning styles and cover five different thinking skills:

• Information Processing 
• Reasoning
• Enquiry
• Creative Thinking
• Evaluation

The ready-made and easy-to-use problems encourage the development of creative and independent learners and enable you to address different pupils' learning styles:

• Auditory 
• Visual
• Kinaesthetic
• Tactile

Look Inside

 Visual Learning Brainteasers 
 Auditory Learning Brainteasers  
 Tactile Learning Brainteasers 
 Kinaesthetic Learning Brainteasers 

" How is it Organised? "

Children learn in many different ways and may have a preferred style. The activities have been grouped into four chapters; Visual, Auditory, Tactile & Kinaesthetic.

"What does each Brainteaser contain? "

Thinking Skill: Each brainteaser details the thinking skill to be developed.

Subject Link: It details the subject link - many of the brainteasers are activities that complement objectives in published curricula.

Learning Link: Each brainteaser states if there is a link to another learning style.

Organisation: Each brainteaser gives suggestions for organisation. Many of the ideas can be adapted for different situations.

Resources: A list of resources is given and some refer to useful websites.

What to do: Instructions for carrying out the brainteasers are given. Where possible these have been directed at the children themselves.

Now try this: Extension activities.