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Thinking Skills

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Building Thinking Skills: Level 1
$29.99

Suggested grades: 2-3

Brief Product Description Develops vocabulary, reading, mathematical reasoning, and analytical skills. 1072 activities, 363 pages. More . . .
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Detailed Product Description Develops vocabulary, reading, mathematical reasoning, and analytical skills. 1072 activities, 363 pages. Building Thinking Skills, Level 1 provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve students' 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. Methods 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. Students 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 students 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. 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
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