Building Thinking Skills Book 2: Student Book with Answer Guide Grades 4-6

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 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. Detailed answer guide now included. Grades 4-6.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1601441509
• ISBN13: 9781601441508
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Critical Thinking Books & Software
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Age Range: 9 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 6

Customer Reviews

Teaching Plus

With the world changing so rapidly, we are teaching children who may probably have jobs that haven't been invented yet. So what better to teach them how to think and reason? This one is for the thinking clas, teacher and school. The book for younger students is also beneficial.

Good book for puzzle solving

My second grader finds it easy to do the workouts in this book. So, I don't believe it is 4th - 6th grade standard, like it claims. Anyways, if your child loves patterns, symmetry, homonyms etc, or to solve puzzles in general, then get this book. It is good brain exercise for those rainy days!

Great Product

Arrived fast. The product is in good condition. An excellent book to stimulate kid's mind, helping them to think better. A great book if your kid loves analogy and reasoning.