Building Thinking Skills® Level 2 (Color)

This engaging 416-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 4-6. The Building Thinking Skills® series is the bestselling thinking skills program in the world! The engaging, highly-effective activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form. Students also learn important academic vocabulary, concepts, and skills as they analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words by:

- Observing, recognizing, and describing characteristics - Distinguishing similarities and differences - Identifying and completing sequences, classifications, and analogies These processes help students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects.

LEVEL 2

Figural-Spatial Skills

Describing shapes Figures: compare / describe / copy / enlarge / divide Diagrams: overlapping classes / Venn / branching / cycle Mental pattern folding / symmetry Directionality / Position in space Mental rotation / reflection / tumbling / stacking / folding of 2-D objects Congruence / area / volume Analogies: size / color / orientation / detail Visual motor integration and memory Use of graphic organizers

Verbal Skills

Spelling / Vocabulary / Writing: describing things and words Following and writing 1-, 2-, and 3-step directions Antonyms / synonyms Analogies: kind of / part of / used to / association / action Deductive / Inductive reasoning Parts of a whole Map reading Writing directions Logic: if-then / yes-no / true-false Orientation: person / place / time Auditory memory Language acquisition

Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts.

An answer guide is included.

From The Critical Thinking Company.