The Critical Thinking Building Thinking Skills Level 2 School Workbook

Grades 4-6) 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: 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 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.