Kindergarten Thinking Skills & Common Core Concepts (2014-05-04)

Thinking Skills & Key Concepts is a new, standards-based series from the authors of our widely acclaimed Building Thinking Skills® series. It is a research-based instructional program that teaches beyond most state and Common Core standards by: Improving young children's observation and description skills Developing academic vocabulary Developing thinking skills that underlie content learning (describing/defining, identifying similarities and differences, sequencing, and classifying) Improving students' understanding of key concepts in Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science Having students complete structured exercises to write sentences and paragraphs Carefully sequencing lessons to develop thinking skills Employing language integration techniques to teach thinking skills and key concepts