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Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal

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Grades: 7-12+

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Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal

Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal 33 5 5 1
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Description and Features

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05244BBP

Description and Features

Develops vocabulary, reading, mathematical reasoning, and analytical skills.

Description and Features

Each of the myriad of skills and concepts taught in this 384-page book and in its companion book Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Figural provide students with unmatched analysis (thinking) skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 7-12. This book targets analysis in reading and writing while the Figural book targets figural-spatial analysis. Students also learn important academic vocabulary and concepts as they analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words. Improved analysis skills lead to better grades and higher test scores. This award-winning book and its Figural/Spatial companion are organized around the following:
     - 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 3 VERBAL

  • 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
  • Denotation and connotation / degree of meaning

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. See components sold separately above for ordering information about the separate, optional Instruction/Answer Guide.

Product Research
North Carolina Case Study

Product Details

Item#: 05244BBP
Author(s): Sandra Parks and Howard Black
TOC: View Table of Contents
Subject: Critical Thinking
Type: Student Book with Answers
Media: Paperback Book
License: Reproducible
ISBN–10: 1-60144-159-2
ISBN–13: 978-1-60144-159-1
Pages: 384, perforated

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!

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Apr 7, 2013
Prepares students' minds for logic.
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Apr 7, 2013
We have been using Building Thinking Skills® for years and have found them invaluable in providing students with the mental tools they need to be enthusiastic learners.
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Apr 7, 2013
Transfer potential is high.…The amount of reinforcement is outstanding.
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Apr 7, 2013
Students who are still acquiring English face a lack of background knowledge in English and the skills necessary to process the new information. Building Thinking Skills® has helped me meet both these challenges, and I have test scores and happy faces to back this up.
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Apr 7, 2013
Our students had taken the Woodcock-Johnson test then they did the Building Thinking Skills®. Post BTS, the kids were tested again and had tremendous achievement in their scores. Their language scores improved by three years, and they averaged more than a year's growth in all other areas.
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Apr 7, 2013
My 8th-grade granddaughter finished both Building Thinking Skills® Book 3s before taking the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. She scored post-high school–in fact she was 'off the charts!'
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Apr 7, 2013
When my students took the Stanford Achievement Test, they scored well above grade level in everything except thinking skills. I heard about Building Thinking Skills® from a friend.…After working with it just one year, they maxed out the thinking section of the test at the 99th percentile.
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Apr 7, 2013
Dear The Critical Thinking Company: We decided to do a limited experiment with students in our school to see if Building Thinking Skills® would help them perform better on standardized and state tests. Last year I began to work directly with some of our students after school. The improvement was remarkable. Test scores went up even after the first few months we used the program. I'm totally sold on the program and will be ordering it for my school. I'd like to see Building Thinking Skills® for every child in every classroom to begin each day.
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Apr 7, 2013
Looking for a way to help students exercise their mental muscles, organize their thinking, or increase their test scores? Check out Building Thinking Skills®! You'll find the boost you're looking for.
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Apr 7, 2013
Dear The Critical Thinking Company:Last year I took the responsibility of using Building Thinking Skills® with a number of our students as an experiment. In my 17 years in the district, I haven't seen anything work the way this program did. The improvement was phenomenal, especially for our at-risk populations and second-language students. It pulled them up in one year as I could not have imagined possible. We love it and are ordering it for our primary students and, in time, for the entire school.
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