Includes units on figural and verbal descriptions, similarities and differences, sequences, classifications, and analogies. Skills addressed include reading comprehension; describing shapes, things, and words; following directions; antonyms and synonyms; several types of analogy; deductive reasoning; parts of a whole; mapping and directionality; logical connectives; spelling and vocabulary; overlapping classes; pattern folding; tracking, rotation, and reflection; mental manipulation of two-dimensional objects. Reading level: grade 2; ability level: grades 2-4; 326 activities. Reproducible for single-classroom or single-home use.

BUILDING THINKING SKILLS Student Edition Level 1 (Critical Thinking Skills for Reading Writing Math Science)

Howard Black

Children's Books

Critical Thinking Books & Software

The Building Thinking Skills series for gardes 2-10 provdes an easy, inexpenseive, and effective tool for improving academci performance in the amjor content areas. These class discussion activities develop, first figurally, then verbally, four basic skills necessary for academic success: identifying similarities and differences, recognizing and completing sequences, determining classification and drawing analogies. Book 2 - Grades 4-7

Building Thinking Skills, Book 2: Student Edition

Sandra Black

Critical Thinking Books

Includes units on verbal descriptions, similarities and differences, sequences, classifications, and analogies. Skills addressed include deductive reasoning; denotation and connotation; following and writing directions; map skills, time ranking; degree of meaning; logical connectives; flowcharts and schedules; parts of a whole; branching diagrams; eight types of analogy; congruence, area, volume, rotation and reflection; pattern folding; symmetry. Reading level: grade 5; ability level: grade 7-adult; 350 activities. Reproducible for single-classroom or single-home use.

Building Thinking Skills : Book 3 Verbal

Teen & Young Adult

Sandra Parks

Education & Reference

Critical Thinking Co.

Building Thinking Skills Book 3, Figural (book 3-figural Lesson Plans And Teachers Manual)

A handbook of lessons which integrate the teaching of thinking skills into instruction--language arts, writing, science, math, social studies, personal problem solving, and enrichment. The central feature of all lessons is the use of graphic organizers to illustrate how information is related. Each lesson includes a lesson plan, background information, and answers. Reading level grade 4; ability level: grades 4-8; 86 activities, graphic organizers and answers included. Reproducible for single-classroom or single-home use.

Organizing Thinking : Book II : Graphic Organizers (Book Ii)

Business & Money

Economics

Building Thinking Skills: Beginning Figural (Critical Thinking Books)

Book by Sandra Parks, Howard Black, Maria P. de Armas

Building Thinking Skills: Beginning (Teacher's Manual) Grades K-2

Maria P. de Armas

By analyzing words and their meanings, then changing one word into another through careful substitution of letters, children build spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension for top grades and test score

Word Benders B1

Critical Thinking Company

By analyzing words and their meanings then changing one word into another through careful substitution of letters, students build spelling, vocabulary, and comprehension for top grades and test scores in all subjects. Subtle word changes encourage students to think through their vocabulary and deduce unknown words to complete each puzzle.

Word Benders C1

Building Thinking Skills provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying)is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics. Distinguish similarities and differences. Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies. Building thinking skills provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment.

Building Thinking Skills® Primary

The Critical Thinking Company

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