Building Thinking Skills Level 2 (Color) Workbook - Critical Thinking Skills for Reading, Writing, Math, Science (Upper Elementary, Grades 4-6)

This engaging, 412-page color book develops the 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 best-selling 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