Building Thinking Skills: Book 2. (and) Book-2 Lesson Plans & Teacher's Manual by Black, Howard and Sandra Black - 1984

Pacific Grove, CA: Critical Thinking Press & Software. As New. 1984. First Edition. Softcover. 089455252x . Includes TWO books, the Teachers Manual is 257 pages the Student book is 296 pages. These are 1984/1987 editions. Clean and unused. Suggested for Grades 4-6) a highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve students' vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. Provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment. The activities are developmentally sequenced. Students 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 students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects. The Teaching guide includes lesson plans, and guide to using the LPs, a guide to each section and transparency masters. Each lesson has a list of additional materials, an introduction, objectives and focus questions that reinforce analytical skills. Further support is given in the directions to guided practice, independent practice, discussion tips, answers, follow-up, curriculum applications (Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Enrichment). ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .