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- Second Grade Thinking Skills & Key Concepts Student Book + TE Bundle
Second Grade Thinking Skills & Key Concepts Student Book + TE Bundle
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$32.99
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$43.99
Vendor:The Critical Thinking Company
SKU:3675
Categories: Logic & Critical Thinking, The Critical Thinking Company
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SKU 3675
Bundle includes the Student Workbook and192-page Teacher's Edition.
This highly-effective, standards-based, 160-page book is a research-based instructional program that teaches beyond most state and Common Core standards by:
- Improving children's observation and description skills
- Developing academic vocabulary
- Developing thinking skills that underlie content learning (describing/defining, identifying similarities and differences, sequencing, and classifying)
- Improving students' understanding of key concepts in mathematics, social studies, and science
- Students completing structured exercises to write sentences and paragraphs
- Carefully sequencing lessons to develop thinking skills
- Employing language integration techniques to teach thinking skills and key concepts
Academic Vocabulary Development
The program builds academic vocabulary using these important concepts: describe, compare and contrast, and classify shapes, position, patterns, matter, water, weather, land forms, bodies of water living and non-living things, communities, our country.
Observation Skills
Observation lessons involve concrete examples using detailed photographs to develop observation skills. The student book provides activities that students may use to clarify their thinking and learning by peer and class discussion.
Spatial Thinking Skills
• Describing Shapes – naming shapes, finding shapes to match a description, describing characteristics of a shape
• Similarities and Differences – matching and combining shapes, producing equal figures, figure completion
• Sequences – recognizing and producing the next figure in a sequence
192 page Teacher's Manual provides instructions to teach the lessons using research-proven methods that promote students' thinking: direct instruction, cooperative learning, whole sentence responding, and language integration activities.
