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Building Thinking Skills Primary (Grades: K-1st) -> ON SALE NOW

Product Description

Grade(s): K-1
Subject: Critical Thinking

ISBN-13: 978-0-89455-887-0
ISBN-10: 0-89455-887-0
Activities: 435
Pages: 272

Type: Student Content
Media: Paperback Book
Authors: Sandra Parks and Howard Black
License: Non-Reproducible

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Reading, writing, and math readiness. Develops analysis skills for academic learning!

Primary level requires attribute blocks and interlocking cubes (sold separately).

Description & Features

Building Thinking Skills Primary provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve child?s vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional Building Thinking Skills series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment.

Test Preparation

Building Thinking Skills® Primary guarantees top performance on assessment tests, including:

Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test® (NNAT®)
Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®)
Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) / Talented and Gifted (TAG)
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT)
Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children (WISC)
Primary Test of Cognitive Skills™ (PTCS)
and many more!

Methods

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. 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.

Sample Activities

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

Teaching Support - (Sold Separately)

Activities are modeled to reinforce reasoning skills and concepts. A Teacher's Manual (optional) is sold separately. Building Thinking Skills® Primary requires attribute blocks and interlocking cubes (required - sold separately). See items sold separately for ordering information for the manual and manipulatives.

Building Thinking Skills Primary
Teacher's Manual - optional

Attribute Blocks

Interlocking Cubes

CH. 1 – DESCRIBING SHAPES

CH. 2 – FIGURAL SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES

CH. 3 – FIGURAL SEQUENCES

CH. 4 – FIGURAL CLASSIFICATIONS

CH. 5 – THINKING ABOUT FAMILY MEMBERS

CH. 6 – THINKING ABOUT FOOD

CH. 7 – THINKING ABOUT ANIMALS

CH. 8 – THINKING ABOUT OCCUPATIONS

CH. 9 – THINKING ABOUT VEHICLES

CH. 10 – THINKING ABOUT BUILDINGS

CH. 11 – THINKING ABOUT ANALOGIES

GLOSSARY

DESCRIPTIONS

More 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

Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) / Talented and Gifted (TAG)
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, WPPSI, WAIS)
Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT Multilevel)
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R)
Primary Test of Cognitive Skills™ (PTCS)
and many more!

Awards

The National Parenting Center Seal of Approval

Mom's Choice Awards Gold Medal for Excellence

Parent Tested, Parent Approved Winner's Seal

Mensa Recommended Materials for the Gifted

iParenting Media Award

Creative Child Magazine Seal of Excellence Award

Learning® Magazine Teacher's Choice Award

iParenting Media Excellent Products

Cathy Duffy Top 100 Award

Dr. Toy 100 Best Children's Products

Learning® Magazine Recommended Resource for Successful Teaching

The Well-Trained Mind Recommended Resource for Logic and Critical Thinking

Product Reviews

"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

"Well-sequenced concepts are introduced at low levels and build to appropriate higher levels.…One of the outstanding differentiating features of the materials is its heavy emphasis on student verbalizations." -Arithmetic Teacher

"Building Thinking Skills® Primary is an essential foundational tool in helping children develop thinking abilities and recognize key relationships both verbally and spatially." -Paul Cates, Ph.D.

"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

"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

"Probably the best purchase I made this year. My kids loved it and got a lot out of it. Helps raise test scores!" -Parent, via the Internet

"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

"Building Thinking Skills® Primary was wonderful for helping my son with spatial/attribute thinking." -Ruth, via the Internet