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Item#: 09211BBP
Type: Student Content w/Answer Guide
Media: Paperback Book
License: Reproducible

Grade(s): 4-6
Subject: Language Arts
ISBN: 0-89455-905-2
Activities: 162
Pages: 48

Use word-play and rhyming to strengthen children's spelling skills!

Description & Features

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.

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.

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.

Skills



• Associative Reasoning
• Phonetic spellings
• Homonyms
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• Roots
• Puns
• Analogies
• Multiple word meanings

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!

Sample Riddles

I am a garden pest,
And haul my house with me;
But if you drop the N,
I push the boat at sea.

What am I? .......................

When happy I will purr,
Now in front of A put O;
I'm something you should wear,
When walking in the snow.

What am I? .......................

I'm part of any road,
Change me if you would pass;
Now change the L to P,
And I'm a sheet of glass.

What am I? .......................

Teaching Support

Includes practice activities, suggestions, and answers.

Product Reviews

"Challenging and fun. Contains scores of rhyming riddles calculated to train the mind in the skills necessary to solve problems creatively." -Craig, Birmingham, AL

"Our 4 year old had no problem solving some of the riddles from the first book, but we can't say the same for her parents and the stumpers in the third book. Challenging and fun, this series contains scores of rhyming riddles calculated to train the mind in the skills necessary to solve problems creatively." -Craig, Birmingham, AL

"My 5th grader enjoys Dr. DooRiddles so much he doesn't want to stop. If he could, he would do them all day." -Ann, Iowa Falls, IO

"Each book in this fun resource contains riddles to challenge the 'creative and critical thinking skills' of students. Useful for vocabulary development and enrichment." -Media Evaluation Services, Raleigh, NC

"Each book in this fun teacher resource...[will] challenge the creative and critical thinking skills of students. Solutions are 'multiple-category' and require the use of association, induction, and divergent thinking." -NC Dept. of Instruction

"The Dr. DooRiddles books are fun for children but are not just for enjoyment and not merely an add-on to regular studies. They foster the important component of higher-order thinking so vital to initiate and develop in the early childhood years." -Dr. Paul Cates, Faith Christian Ministries

"One of my younger children had processing delays. Dr. DooRiddles was invaluable in building the necessary verbal skills and rebuilding confidence. In fact, I recommend it even for adults." -Kathe, Garland, TX