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Building Thinking Skills

Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill set provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.

The activities are sequenced developmentally. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children 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 children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects.

The answers are included in all the books.

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First Steps to Building Thinking Skills

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While Supplies Last - Item has been discontinued by the publisher. Develop analysis skills necessary for academic learning! This program prepares your child for academic learning by developing essential organized analysis skills. These fun, engaging, hands-on activities focus on perceptual skills necessary for success in reading, writing, and mathematics. This boxed set contains: activity book with easy-to-follow, detailed instructionsgeoboard and rubber bandsshape playing cardsgeometric shape cards.The reproducible, full-colour book can be photo-copied, or can be used over and over with many children if you do not have the child colour in it, but rather they can explain their answer and trace with their finger the lines or shapes to be coloured. (Sample pages open in a new window) Sample page 1Sample page 2Sample page 3 Table of Contents and Skills: Part 1: Spatial Awareness (using a variety of included manipulatives) • Attributes: Identify similarity/dif...

Hands-On Thinking Skills

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Students have fun building manipulative relationships on each activity page using attribute blocks, pattern blocks, or interlocking cubes (sold separately). Activities and units are sequentially developed to keep students' interest level high. Verbal analysis is encouraged to maximize synthesis of verbal and spatial skills and to build vocabulary. Uses Cube-a-Links extensively, attribute blocks and pattern blocks optional (instructions included) Sample page 1 (Sample pages open in a new window)Sample page 2Sample page 3 Table of Contents and Skills:Identify Similarities and Differences• Shapes: Match, Find, Divide, Complete• Figures: Copy, CoverForm/Follow Sequences and Patterns• Track• Paths• Copy/Complete Shapes and Figures• Paper FoldingClassify Objects and Groups• Object: Color, Shape, Size• Groups: Shape, Color, Describe, Add, Form, Separate, Define, Common Elements/PropertyCreate / Interpret Analogies• Shap...

Building Thinking Skills Book 1

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Develops analysis, vocabulary, reading, and mathematical reasoning skills! This reproducible workbook consists of activities organized into related figural and verbal units covering describing shapes, describing things, similarities/differences, sequence, analogies and classifications. Within these units, students will practice a skill set not found in any other single activity book. Help your child improve their reasoning, problem-solving, reading, vocabulary, logic, communication and figural/spatial skills and lay a solid foundation for better academic performance, higher test scores. Logic Blocks, Pattern Blocks and Interlinking Cubes are highly recommended by not required for Building Thinking Skills Book 1. GoalsHighly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities improve students’ vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill product provides a solid foundation for acad...

Building Thinking Skills Book 1 Guide

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Develops analysis, vocabulary, reading, and mathematical reasoning skills!The Building Thinking Skills Book 1 Guide includes objectives, answers, and focus questions that encourage discussion for differentiated problem solving and reinforcement as students think through concepts.GoalsHighly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities improve students’ vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill product provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.MethodsThe activities are sequenced developmentally. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the 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• iden...

Building Thinking Skills Book 2 Guide

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This Guide is on a CD Develops analysis, vocabulary, reading, and mathematical reasoning skills!The Building Thinking Skills Book 2 Guide includes objectives, answers, and focus questions that encourage discussion for differentiated problem solving and reinforcement as students think through concepts.GoalsHighly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities improve students’ vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill product provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.MethodsThe activities are sequenced developmentally. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the 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 an...

Building Thinking Skills Book 2

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Develops analysis, vocabulary, reading, and mathematical reasoning skills! This reproducible workbook consists of activities organized into related figural and verbal units covering describing shapes, describing things, similarities/differences, sequence, analogies and classifications. Within these units, students will practice a skill set not found in any other single activity book. Help your child improve their reasoning, problem-solving, reading, vocabulary, logic, communication and figural/spatial skills and lay a solid foundation for better academic performance, higher test scores. Answer key is included GoalsHighly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities improve students’ vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill product provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test. MethodsThe activities are sequenced developmentally...