Developing intelligence for primary school

This book offers a training programme, specially designed for children aged 4-5 upwards, to help them learn how to adopt cognitive strategies for profitable learning on their own, in view of their entry into primary school. The book is divided into 17 sections and contains various kinds of exercises — such as identifying similarity criteria, the odd ones or missing details, completing a series or putting in the right order, riddles, codes and illustrated problems — aimed at developing or training:
– categorisation and abstraction skills;
– ability to hold attention and concentration on a determined task;
– visual discrimination and short-term memory;
– ability to perform associations and identify logical connections and causal relationships;
– reasoning and problem solving abilities;
– text comprehension, narrative ability and widening of lexis.

With over 200 illustrated worksheets, the book is addressed to parents, teachers and therapists, who will be able to help their children expand their basic cognitive abilities and strengthen those lacking, in a fun, effective way.

There is also a complementary software available: Developing intelligence for primary school (CD-ROM).