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, Book 1

Howard Black

Sandra Black

Children's Books

Critical Thinking Books and 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

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.

The teacher's manuals provide the answers and questioning strategies students need to reinforce and confirm the thinking processes used to complete the activities. Reinforcement increases the likelihood of transfer to similar tasks in the content areas. The teacher's manuals do not contain the student activities.

Building Thinking Skills : Book 3, Verbal (Book-3 Verbal Lesson Plans and Teacher's Manual)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

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, Book 2: Lesson Plans & Teacher's Manual

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)

Critical Thinking Books & Software

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, 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

Critical Thinking Company

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