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Item Description...
Grades: 2-3 Subject: Critical Thinking Type: For Student and Teacher License: Reproducible
Develops vocabulary, reading, mathematical reasoning, and analytical skills. Student Content now also includes Answer Guide.
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.
These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects.
Teaching Support
Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included, however, a separate Instruction/Answer Guide is also available but is not required. The optional teaching guide includes objectives and focus questions that reinforce analytical skills.
Table of Contents/Skills
Chapter One--Describing Shapes
* Describing Shapes--Select
* Describing Shapes--Explain
* Following Directions
* Writing Directions
* Describing Position--A
* Describing Position--B
* Characteristics of a Shape
Chapter Two--Figural Similarities and Differences
* Matching Shapes
* Which Shape Does Not Match?
* Matching Shapes That Have Been Turned
* Finding Shapes
* Combining Interlocking Cubes
* Combining Shapes
* Finding and Tracing Patterns
* Dividing Shapes into Equal Parts--A
* Dividing Shapes into Equal Parts--B
* Dividing Shapes into Equal Parts--C
* Which Shape Completes the Square?
* Which Shapes Make Squares?
* Copying a Figure
* Drawing Identical Shapes
* Comparing Shapes--Select
* Comparing Shapes--Explain
Chapter Three-Figural Sequences
* Copying a Pattern
* Which Color Comes Next?--Select
* Which Shape Comes Next?--Select
* Tumbling--Coloring
* Tumbling--Shading
* Tumbling--Drawing
* Which Figure Comes Next?--Select (Flips)
* Which Figure Comes Next?--Select (Changes in Detail)
* Which Figure Comes Next?--Draw It!
* Describe a Sequence
* A Sequence of Polygons
* A Sequence of Angles
* Paper Folding--Select
* Paper Folding--Draw
Chapter Four--Figural Classifications
* Match a Shape to a Group
* Match a Pattern to a Group
* Select a Shape that Belongs to a Group
* Describing Classes
* Matching Classes by Shape
* Matching Classes by Pattern
* Classifying by Shape--Find the Exception
* Classifying by Pattern--Find the Exception
* Classifying More than One Way
* Classifying by Color--Sorting
* Classifying by Shape--Sorting
* Complete the Class
* Form a Class
* Draw Another
* Classifying by Shape--Sorting
* Classifying by Color--Sorting
* Classifying by Size--Sorting
* Overlapping Classes--Intersection
* Overlapping Classes--Matrix
* Writing Descriptions of Classes
Chapter Five--Figural Analogies
* Analogies with Shapes
* Building Analogies with Blocks
* Analogies with Shapes--Select
* Kinds of Analogies
* Analogies with Shapes--Complete
Chapter Six--Describing Things
* Describing Foods--Select
* Describing Animals--Select
* Describing Vehicles--Select
* Describing Places--Select
* Describing Occupations--Select
* Describing Foods--Explain
* Describing Places--Explain
* Describing Places on Earth--Explain
* Describing Animals--Explain
* Describing Occupations--Explain
* Describing Words--Select
* Name the Animal--Supply
* Name the Plant--Supply
* Name the Vehicle/Place--Supply
* Name the Occupation--Supply
* Identifying Characteristics
Chapter Seven--Verbal Similarities and Differences
* Opposites--Select
* Opposites--Supply
* Similarities--Select
* Similarities--Supply
* How Alike?--Select
* How Alike and How Different?
* Compare and Contrast--Graphic Organizer
* Comparing Living and Nonliving Things
Chapter Eight--Verbal Sequences
* Following Yes-No Rules--A
* Writing Yes-No Rules
* Following Yes-No Rules--B
* Completing True-False Tables
* Finding Locations on Maps
* Describing Locations--A
* Describing Directions--A
* Describing Locations--B
* Describing Directions--B
* Select the Word that Continues the Sequence
* Ranking
* Supply a Word that Continues a Sequence
* Warm-up Deductive Reasoning
* Deductive Reasoning
* Ranking Time Measures
* Ranking Length Measures
* Ranking in Geography
* Flowchart--Example
* Flowchart--Arithmetic
Chapter Nine--Verbal Classifications
* Parts of a Whole--Select
* Parts of a Whole--Graphic Organizer
* Class and Members--Select
* What Is True of Both Words?--Select
* How Are These Words Alike?--Select
* How Are These Words Alike?--Explain
* Explain the Exception
* Picture Dictionary--Sorting into Classes
* Word Classes--Select
* Picture Dictionary--Sorting by Class and Size
* Recognizing Classes--Graphic Organizer
Chapter Ten--Verbal Analogies
* Analogies
* Picture Analogies--Select
* Picture Analogies--Name the Relationship
* Analogies--Select
* Analogies--Supply
* Analogies--Select the Right Pair
Instruction/Answer Guide
* Answers
* Objective and Materials
* Curriculum Applications
* Teaching Suggestions
* Lesson
* Guided Practice
* Independent Practice
* Thinking about Thinking
* Personal Application
ISBN 1601441495 EAN 9781601441492 UPC 000000895599
Pages 370
Dimensions: Length: 10.9" Width: 8.5" Height: 0.8" Weight: 1.95 lbs.
Release Date Jan 1, 2006
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My whole family loved this book. I had as much fun as my 5-year-old. It was easy enough for my youngest while still challenging my oldest(8). I love these books and will be purchasing the whole set.
Great for all ages Sep 8, 2004
This is an excellent series of books that are great for children and adults. My newly 4 year old daughter is able to do many of the problems and enjoys the focus and accomplishment of doing them.
I love this book!!! Aug 26, 2002
Sylvan Learning Center uses it, that should be enough of a testimony right there!
My third-graders spatial skills were not well developed. Jul 7, 1999
She used to go ballistic when she had to mentally form a three-dimensional object from a two-dimensional image. After doing the Building Thinking Skills Book 1, she says it's a breeze. Her nonverbal scores used to be low. Now they're higher than her verbal, which were already high. Her creativity and problem solving have also blossomed since she started using these materials.
