Associative Reasoning Activities

Grades: PreK - 12+
Subject: Language Arts

A fun way to strengthen your child's spelling, vocabulary, and reading!

Description & Features

Dr. DooRiddles develops students' fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations as it improves their spelling, vocabulary, reading, and problem-solving skills.

Students carefully read through clues in each riddle, analyzing connections within and between clues to figure out what is being described. Solving the riddles requires students to evaluate homonyms, synonyms, homophones, prefixes, roots, and suffixes in order to deduce and spell whole and partial word answers.

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.

Activities may be read aloud to pre-readers.

Test Preparation

Dr. DooRiddles® prepares students for many assessment tests, including:
• Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence™ (WPPSI™)
• Primary Test of Cognitive Skills™ (PTCS)
• and many more!

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