Building Thinking Skills® Level 1 (Color) - eBook
Critical Thinking Skills for Reading • Writing • Math • Science
Grades: 2-3
Critical Thinking
Full curriculum
Grades: 2-3
Critical Thinking
Full curriculum
- Multiple Award Winner
Building Thinking Skills® Level 1 (Color) - eBook
Description and Features
Description and Features
Description and Features
This engaging 320-page book develops the critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 2-3. The Building Thinking Skills® series is the bestselling thinking skills program in the world! The engaging, highly-effective 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. Students also learn important academic vocabulary, concepts, and skills as they analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words by:
- Observing, recognizing, and describing characteristics
- Distinguishing similarities and differences
- Identifying and completing sequences, classifications, and analogies
These processes help students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects.
LEVEL 1
Figural-Spatial Skills
- Describing shapes
- Figures: compare / describe / copy / enlarge / divide
- Diagrams: overlapping classes / Venn / branching / cycle
- Mental pattern folding / symmetry
- Directionality / Position in space
- Mental rotation / reflection / tumbling / stacking / folding of 2-D objects
- Congruence / area / volume
- Analogies: size / color / orientation / detail
- Visual motor integration and memory
- Use of graphic organizers
Verbal Skills
- Spelling / Vocabulary / Writing: describing things and words
- Following and writing 1-, 2-, and 3-step directions
- Antonyms / synonyms
- Analogies: kind of / part of / used to / association / action
- Deductive / Inductive reasoning
- Parts of a whole
- Map reading
- Writing directions
- Logic: if-then / yes-no / true-false
- Orientation: person / place / time
- Auditory memory
- Language acquisition
Teaching Support
Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is included.
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Product Details
Item#: | 05265BEP |
Author(s): | Sandra Parks and Howard Black |
TOC: | View Table of Contents |
Subject: | Critical Thinking |
Type: | Student Book with Answers |
Media: | eBook |
License: | Printable |
ISBN–13: | 978-1-60144-993-1 |
Pages: | 320, Color |
Awards
Practical Homeschooling Magazine - Reader Awards, 2014 - 3rd Place, Logic
Test preparation available for the following:
Building Thinking Skills® includes reading, writing, figural-spatial, logic, and math-related activities to prepare students for high levels of success on a wide variety of assessment tests, including:
STATE TEST PREP
Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP)
Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS™)
Florida State Assessment (FSA)
Ohio Proficiency Test
North Carolina Competency Test in Reading
Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS)
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)
Virginia Standards of Learning (VSOL)
OTHER TEST PREP
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS®)
California Achievement Tests (CAT/6)
Stanford Achievement Test™ (SAT/10)
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Fourth Edition
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test® (OLSAT®)
Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT)
TerraNova (CTBS), Terra Nova, The Second Edition (CAT/6)
Woodcock-Johnson® Tests (WJ-III®, WJ-R®)
Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT®)
Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) / Talented and Gifted (TAG)
Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children® (WISC®)
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scales of Intelligence™ (WPPSI™)
Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test® (NNAT®)
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R)
Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE)
and many more!