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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. 1374 activities.
Paperback. 408 pages. Reproducible.
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:
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
Chapter Two--Figural Similarities and Differences
Chapter Three--Figural Sequences
Chapter Four--Figural Classifications
Chapter Five--Figural Analogies
Chapter Six--Describing Things
Chapter Seven--Verbal Similarities and Differences
Chapter Eight--Verbal Sequences
Chapter Nine--Verbal Classifications
Chapter Ten--Verbal Analogies
Instruction/Answer Guide
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