Develops vocabulary, reading, mathematical reasoning, and analytical skills. 350 activities, 378 pages.
Building Thinking Skills 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.
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:
These processes help students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects.
Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included.
Word BendersTM--Instructions
Word BendersTM--Synonyms
Word BendersTM--Antonyms
Following Directions--Select
Following Directions--Supply Words
Following Directions--Supply Shapes
Following Directions--Supply Designs
Writing Directions
Stacking Shapes--Select
Stacking Shapes--Supply
Stacking Shapes--Explain
Produce a Pattern and Write Descriptions
Recognizing Direction
Describing Locations on a Grid
Describing Locations Using Maps
Describing Locations on Maps
Describing Directions Using Maps
Describing Locations with Maps
Describing Directions with Maps
Describing Locations and Directions with Maps
Depicting Directions
Depicting Dimensions
Depicting Directions
Time Sequence--Select
Time Sequence--Rank
Time Sequence--Supply
Degree of Meaning--Select
Degree of Meaning--Rank
Degree of Meaning--Supply
Transitivity--Comparison
Transitivity--Time Order
Transitivity--Multiple Time Lines
Transitivity--Family Trees
Deductive Reasoning--Instructions
Deductive Reasoning--Transitive Order
Deductive Reasoning Using Yes-No Statements
Multi-Factor Deductive Reasoning
Negation--Following Yes-No Rules
Negation--Supply the Rule
Negation--Completing True-False Tables
Conjunction--Following "And" Rules
Disjunction--Following And/Or Rules
Implication--Following If-Then Rules
Three Connectives
Cause-Effect Words--Select
Cause-Effect Words--Supply
Cause-Effect Words--Select the Relationship
Flowcharting
Flowcharting for Solving Problems
Flowcharting a Sequence
Flowcharting a Plan of Action
Flowcharting--Average Speed
Flowcharting as an Aid to Planning
Flowcharting--Comparison Chopping
Flowcharting a Cycle
Flowcharting a Sequence
Flowcharting a Cycle
Intervals of a Day--Definitions
Time Intervals of a Day--Definitions
Intervals of a Day--Select
Intervals of a Day--Supply
Long-Term Intervals--Definitions
Intervals of a Year--Supply
Time Order--Rank
Time Intervals--Select
Intervals of a Year--Supply
Time Zones
Schedules
Schedules--Tournaments
Parts of Whole--Select
Class and Members--Select
Sentences Containing Classes and Subclasses--Select
General to Specific--Rank
Distinguishing Relationships
How Are These Words Alike?--Select
How Are These Words Alike?--Explain
Explain the Exception
Sorting into Classes
Supply the Classes
Overlapping Classes--Matrix
Branching Diagrams
Diagramming Classes
Diagramming Classes--Select
Diagramming Classes--Describe
Diagramming Classes--Select the Diagram
Diagramming Classes--Select and Explain
Diagramming Class Statements
Diagramming Class Statements--Supply
Diagramming Class Arguments
Diagramming Class Arguments--Supply
Definitions that Contain Classes--Select
Definitions that Contain Classes--Supply
Analogies--Instructions
Antonym or Synonym Analogies--Select
Antonym or Synonym Analogies--Select More than Once
Antonym or Synonym Analogies--Select Two
Association Analogies--Select
Association Analogies--Select More than Once
Association Analogies--Select Two
"Kind of" Analogies--Select
"Part of" Analogies--Select
"Part of" Analogies--Select the Relationship
"Used to" Analogies--Select
Action Analogies--Select
"Degree of" Analogies--Select
Mixed Analogies--Select Two Words
Analogies--Explain
Antonym or Synonym Analogies--Supply
Association Analogies--Supply
"Kind of" Analogies--Supply
"Part of" Analogies--Supply
"Used to" Analogies--Supply
Action Analogies--Supply
"Degree of" Analogies--Supply
Create Your Own Analogies
