Building Thinking Skills Book 1: Student Book with Answer Guide Grades 2-3

by Sandra Parks and Howard Black

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1601441495
• ISBN13: 9781601441492
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Critical Thinking Books & Software
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 2.53 lbs.
• Age Range: 7 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 3

Customer Reviews

Good tool

This book is a good tool for kids to practice or learn critical thinking skills.

So Fun

My whole family loved this book. I had as much fun as my 5-year-old. It was easy enough for my youngest while still challenging my oldest(8). I love these books and will be purchasing the whole set.

Great for all ages

This is an excellent series of books that are great for children and adults. My newly 4 year old daughter is able to do many of the problems and enjoys the focus and accomplishment of doing them.

My third-graders spatial skills were not well developed.

She used to go ballistic when she had to mentally form a three-dimensional object from a two-dimensional image. After doing the Building Thinking Skills Book 1, she says it's a breeze. Her nonverbal scores used to be low. Now they're higher than her verbal, which were already high. Her creativity and problem solving have also blossomed since she started using these materials.