How Do You Know?

General Information
Objective: How do you know? app uses over 500 pictures and questions to engage students in critical thinking skills. Children will build and strengthen their language and inferential skills by identifying and labeling visual clues and key details to explain how they know the answer! See How it Works for a step by step guide through the features.
A tutorial section called Let’s Talk About It is included. The Let’s Talk About It section provides educators, SLPs and parents the opportunity to explicitly teach inferential and critical thinking skills using concrete examples, language frameworks, and strategies to identify relevant and non-relevant information. Studies reveal that critical thinking skills, like making inferences, are essential to meet core curriculum standards and to understand what's going on in both the classroom and social situations. (Daniel et al 2005)
How Do You Know targets the following language goals
• Question comprehension: who, what, where, when & how
• Verbal reasoning strategies to make inferences
• Critical thinking skills to distinguish key details
• Build Vocabulary and semantic knowledge
• Use pictures to build concept imagery
• Recognize and label associated vocabulary
• Practice reading comprehension at sentence level
• Verbal Reasoning Skills
Teachers, Parents & Therapists Favorite Features!
• Lots of content; Over 10 categories:
o Places, Activities, Weather, Emotions, Conditions & State of Being, People & Occupations, Animals, Time, Events, Holidays, Geography
o Items within each category are randomized
• Data collection with percentages for both Wh-questions & How questions
• Different levels of difficulty using or fading audio and visual prompts
• A Study Guide and tutorial section called “Let’s Talk About It!”
• Email reports and share results with parents, teachers, & therapists
• 100 name capacity; edit to add/delete names
• A "Read to Me" option; audio on/off
• Practice reading at phrase & sentence level
• Reinforcement; encouraging audio feedback for correct & incorrect responses
• “Listen Again” button
• Developed by a certified SLP with over 28 years of clinical experience
About the author: Lynn Epstein, MS, ASHA certified speech language pathologist with over 28 years of clinical experience in child language and communication development. How Do You Know? app is based on successful strategies and lessons used with thousands of students to strengthen communication and verbal reasoning skills.
Lynn Epstein can be contacted at Howdoyouknowapp@gmail.com
Or www.lagunabeachlanguagespeech.com
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Related Research
How Do You Know? App is an effective tool to practice inferential skills and critical thinking. Verbal reasoning and critical thinking are necessary skills for meeting core curriculum standards and competence across the curriculum. Students engaged in critical thinking must make associations that connect problems with their