Critical Thinking Skills for Reading • Writing • Math • Science

The #1 Selling Thinking Skills Program in the World!
Better grades and higher test scores - guaranteed!

Grades: PreK - 12th+
Subject: Critical Thinking

Prepare Children for State & National Assessment Tests, Cognitive Abilities Tests, & Gifted (GATE) Exams


Test preparation - guarantees top performance on assessment tests and GATE exams!


Multiple award winner, including Creative Child Seal of Excellence award and the Cathy Duffy Top 100

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, motor, analytical reasoning, and auditory processing skills. This exceptional series 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.

Test Preparation
Building Thinking Skills includes reading, writing, figural-spatial, logic, and math-related activities to prepare students for high levels of success on a wide variety of assessment tests, including:
STATE ASSESSMENT TESTS	OTHER ASSESSMENT TESTS
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)	Stanford Achievement Test™ (SAT/9; SAT/10) Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale Fourth Edition Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT-8) Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT) GED Tests TerraNova (CTBS-5) and Terra Nova, The Second Edition Woodcock-Johnson® Tests (WJ/III® and WJ/R®) Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®) Wechsler Intelligence Scales (WISC-III; WISC-IV and WAIS-III) Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test® (NNAT®) Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R) and many more!

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