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Building Thinking Skills Beginning (PreK Ages 3-4) -> ON SALE NOW

Building Thinking Skills Beginning (PreK Ages 3-4) -> ON SALE NOW
Item# 05233PBN
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Product Description


Grade(s): PreK
Subject: Critical Thinking

ISBN-13: 978-0-89455-911-2
ISBN: 0-89455-911-7
Activities: 479
Pages: 224

Item#: 05233PBN
Type: Student Content
Media: Paperback Book
License: Non-Reproducible
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Reading, writing, and math readiness. Develops analysis skills for academic learning!

Description & Features

Building Thinking Skills Beginning provides fun, highly effective and engaging verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve the vocabulary, pre-reading, pre-writing, math, logic, figural-spatial, visual and auditory processing skills of preschoolers. It teaches students to use organized analysis instead of guesswork to solve problems as it develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, math, writing, and science.

Building Thinking Skills Beginning may be used as a complete critical thinking curriculum to prepare young minds for preschool academics. The book uses colorful, easy-to-understand activities, sequenced in small steps, many game like, and solvable in a short period.

This exceptional Building Thinking Skills series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.

Sample Activities


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Sample 1
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Sample 2
Sample 2
Sample 3
Sample 3
Sample 4
Sample 4
Sample 5
Sample 5
Sample 6
Sample 6


Teaching Support

Activities are modeled to reinforce reasoning skills and concepts. Building Thinking Skills Beginning may be used with Attribute Blocks (optional). See items sold separately for ordering information for these manipulatives.

Attribute Blocks
Attribute Blocks
Attribute Blocks, Interlocking Cubes, and Pattern Blocks Set
Attribute Blocks, Interlocking Cubes,
and Pattern Blocks Set




    Skills


  • Visual Tracking
  • Visual Constancy
  • Visual Motor Skills
  • Spatial Relationships
  • Auditory Processing
  • Auditory Memory
  • Fine Motor Skill Development
  • Inferential Reasoning/ Prediction
  • Deduction
  • Identifying Similarities & Differences
  • Classifying
  • Identifying Sequences
  • Completing Analogies
  • Creative Problem Solving


Concepts


Colors
  • Red
  • Blue
  • Yellow
  • Green
  • Logical Connectives
  • And
  • Or
  • Lines
  • Straight
  • Curved
  • Straight & Curved
  • Corners
    Geometric Shapes
  • Circle
  • Triangle
  • Rectangle
  • Square
  • Behind & In-Between
    Above & Below
    Measurement
  • Longer
  • Longest
  • Shorter
  • Shortest
  • Larger
  • Largest
  • Smaller
  • Smallest
  • Half & Whole
    Left & Right
    Open & Closed Figures


    Test Preparation


    State Assessments


    Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS)
    Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP)
    Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS)
    California Achievement Tests (CAT/6)
    Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)
    Kansas State Assessments
    Ohio Proficiency Test
    North Carolina Competency Test in Reading
    Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS)
    Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)
    Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL)


    Other Assessment Tests


    Stanford Achievement Test (SAT/9; SAT/10)
    Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
    Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT-8)
    TerraNova (CTBS-5) and Terra Nova, The Second Edition
    Woodcock-Johnson® Tests (WJ-III and WJ-R)
    Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT), Forms 5 and 6
    Wechsler Intelligence Scales (WISC-III; WISC-IV and WAIS-III)
    Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT Multilevel)
    Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R)
    and many more!
     

    Product Reviews & Awards

    2009 Teacher's Choice Award for the Family -Learning Magazine®

    "Transfer potential is high.…The amount of reinforcement is outstanding." -Reading Teacher

    "We have been using Building Thinking Skills® for years and have found them invaluable in providing students with the mental tools they need to be enthusiastic learners." -Katherine, Ratanakiri, Cambodia

    "Prepares students' minds for logic." -Nathaniel, Muscatine, IA

    "Students who are still acquiring English face a lack of background knowledge in English and the skills necessary to process the new information. Building Thinking Skills® has helped me meet both these challenges, and I have test scores and happy faces to back this up." -Britta, ESL Department, Tucson, AZ

    We decided to do a limited experiment with students in our school to see if Building Thinking Skills would help them perform better on standardized and state tests. Last year I began to work directly with some of our students after school. The improvement was remarkable. Test scores went up even after the first few months we used the program. I'm totally sold on the program and will be ordering it for my school. I'd like to see Building Thinking Skills for every child in every classroom to begin each day. Sincerely, Joel James, Principal - Marshville Elementary School, Marshville, NC

    Last year I took the responsibility of using Building Thinking Skills with a number of our students as an experiment. In my 17 years in the district, I haven't seen anything work the way this program did. The improvement was phenomenal, especially for our at-risk populations and second-language students. It pulled them up in one year as I could not have imagined possible. We love it and are ordering it for our primary students and, in time, for the entire school. Sincerely, Gayle Polk, Guidance Counselor - East Elementary School, Monroe, LA

    "Looking for a way to help students exercise their mental muscles, organize their thinking, or increase their test scores? Check out Building Thinking Skills®! You'll find the boost you're looking for." -Reviewer, via the Internet

    "I am a teacher at a small private school. I would like to purchase the Building Thinking Skills® series....We have a couple of students who I believe would greatly benefit from these materials. They are struggling in most of their subjects and have not been exposed to different ways of thinking and learning.
    "When I was homeschooling my own children a few years back, we went through the Building Thinking Skills series and I was very impressed with the results. I would very much like to offer the same benefit to the struggling students in our school."
    -Anita, Marion, IA

    "The ability to think clearly and to reason are equally as important as the ability to read or to write....[W]e have found the Building Thinking Skills® books to be the best of the various critical thinking products available." -Ellen, Crossville, TN

    "I have two children with dyslexia who have both done fine academically, and we owe a good part of that success to the work they've put in throughout the years with Building Thinking Skills®." -Paula Scholtz, Braintree Education Center, TX

    "My daughter is very bright and has a neurological learning disability. Her performance IQ may often be considerably below her potential or verbal IQ. Building Thinking Skills'® perfectly sequenced cognitive exercises are exactly what she needs to help build the neural pathways around the 'white-matter damage,' literally bypassing her disabilities so that she can perform up to her actual IQ. The series has helped both of us to take the frustration out of learning." -Dr. Heather Henderson, Eugene, OR

    "The [Building Thinking Skills®] verbal and figural skills books have been invaluable.…The lesson plans and activities ordered according to difficulty made it possible for our instructors to link an assessment to a prescribed curriculum tailored for each student. Students don't get bored or discouraged when they are presented work which matches their ability level." -Stacey Hunter Schwartz, Ph.D., Assoc. Dean

    "The #1 selling thinking skills program in the world and I can see why! These authors have written one of the most effective books for teaching/learning thinking skills." -Merrilee Defoe, Reviewer

    "I have twins who have always done above-average work but have never tested anywhere near the top. We did an intensive study of Building Thinking Skills® in the weeks before they tested. To my surprise, their scores were in the 98th and 99th percentile across the board. I failed to give them practice the next time around and their scores went down. Now they're back at the top again and I know that Building Thinking Skills was what helped them." -Sharon, Forestville, MD

    "This series challenges students to solve a variety of fun and educational activities that can significantly improve their ability to think about problems rather than just mechanically apply a few memorized techniques." -Peggy Zorn, Reviewer

    "Looking for a way to help students exercise their mental muscles, organize their thinking, or increase their test scores? Check out Building Thinking Skills®! You'll find the boost you're looking for!" -Diane Wheeler, Reviewer

    "Prepares students minds for logic." -Nathaniel, Muscatine, IA



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