Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Figural
Critical Thinking Skills for Reading • Writing • Math • Science
Grades: 7-12+
Critical Thinking
Full curriculum
Grades: 7-12+
Critical Thinking
Full curriculum
- Multiple Award Winner
Components Sold Separately
Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Figural - Instruction/Answer Guide - eBook
Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Figural
Description and Features
Description and Features
Description and Features
Each of the myriad of skills and concepts taught in this 288-page book and in its companion book Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal provide students with unmatched analysis (thinking) skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 7-12. This book targets figural-spatial analysis while the verbal book targets reading and writing. Students also learn important academic vocabulary and concepts as they analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words. Improved analysis skills lead to better grades and higher test scores. This award-winning book and its Verbal companion are organized around the following:
- 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 3 FIGURAL
- 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
- Symmetry / Tessellation of solids
Teaching Support
Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is now included, however, a separate Instruction/Answer Guide is also available but is not required. The optional teaching guide includes objectives and focus questions that reinforce analytical skills. See components sold separately above for ordering information about the separate, optional Instruction/Answer Guide.
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Product Details
Item#: | 05243BBP |
Author(s): | Sandra Parks and Howard Black |
TOC: | View Table of Contents |
Subject: | Critical Thinking |
Type: | Student Book with Answers |
Media: | Paperback Book |
License: | Reproducible |
ISBN–10: | 1-60144-158-4 |
ISBN–13: | 978-1-60144-158-4 |
Pages: | 288, perforated |
Awards
Practical Homeschooling Magazine - Reader Awards, 2014 - 3rd Place, Logic
Test preparation available for the following:
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 TEST PREP
Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP)
Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS™)
Florida State Assessment (FSA)
Ohio Proficiency Test
North Carolina Competency Test in Reading
Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS)
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)
Virginia Standards of Learning (VSOL)
OTHER TEST PREP
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS®)
California Achievement Tests (CAT/6)
Stanford Achievement Test™ (SAT/10)
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Fourth Edition
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test® (OLSAT®)
Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT)
TerraNova (CTBS), Terra Nova, The Second Edition (CAT/6)
Woodcock-Johnson® Tests (WJ-III®, WJ-R®)
Cognitive Abilities Test™ (CogAT®)
Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) / Talented and Gifted (TAG)
Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children® (WISC®)
Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scales of Intelligence™ (WPPSI™)
Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test® (NNAT®)
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R)
Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE)
and many more!