Building Thinking Skills provides highly effective verbal
reasoning and nonverbal or figural reasoning activities to improve students
vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and
figural spatial skills as well as their visual and
auditory processing. This skill set provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on
many
assessment tests.
Higher Order Thinking Skills Activities: Similarities
& Differences, Logical
Thinking, Sequences, Figural Classifications, Verbal Classifications, Figural
Analogies, Verbal Analogies,
Antonyms & Synonyms, Spatial Awareness, Vocabulary Development, Following
Directions, Descriptive Writing, Geometry Concepts, Map Reading, Graphic
Organizers and more.
Use with
the
Mind Benders series to develop logic and comprehension skills with fun.
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The Building Thinking Skills series provides
practice in thinking skills assessed in the following instruments and State
assessment tests:
ASSESSMENT TESTS
Stanford Achievement Test? (SAT/9)
Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale Fourth Edition
Otis-Lennon School Ability Test (OLSAT)
Bracken School Readiness Test
(BSRA)
Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT)
GED Tests
TerraNova (CTBS-5) and Terra Nova, The Second Edition
Woodcock-Johnson® Tests
Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®), Forms 5 and 6
Wechsler Intelligence Scales (WISC and WAIS)
Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test® (NNAT®?Multilevel)
Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R)
and
many more!
STATE
ASSESSMENT TESTS
Iowa Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS®)
Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP)
Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS?)
California Achievement Tests (CAT/5)
Connecticut Mastery Test (CMT)
Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT)
Kansas State Reading Assessment
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)
* The correlations are meant to show that skills assessed in a particular
test are addressed in a product from The Critical Thinking Company. We do
not claim that these materials match up exactly to each test or teach all
the skills measured in a particular assessment.
Feedback
from our customers:
"My daughter really enjoys the Building Thinking Skills and
Mind Benders. They are proving to be a great way to keep her challenged and learning."
Comments from others:
"The #1 selling thinking skills program in the world and I can see why! These authors have written one of the most effective books for teaching/learning thinking skills." Merrilee Defoe, Reviewer
"I have twins who have always done above-average work but have never tested anywhere near the top. We did an intensive study of
Building Thinking Skills in the weeks before they tested. To my surprise, their scores were in the 98th and 99th percentile across the board. I failed to give them practice the next time around and their scores went down. Now they're back at the top again and I know that
Building Thinking Skills was what helped them." Sharon, MD
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