The #1 Selling Thinking Skills Program in the World!
Better grades and higher test scores - guaranteed! Grades: PreK - 12th+
Subject: Critical ThinkingPrepare Children for State & National Assessment Tests, Cognitive Abilities Tests, & Gifted (GATE) ExamsTest 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 100Building 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.
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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:
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| 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)
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- 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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