Title: Building thinking skills
Description: This colorful, fun 224-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests. It also teaches many academic concepts and skills taught in kindergarten and first grade.  

The fun, highly-effective and engaging reasoning activities improve the vocabulary, pre-reading, pre-writing, math, logic, spatial, and auditory processing skills of preschoolers. It teaches students to use organized analysis instead of guesswork to solve problems. The book may be used as a complete critical thinking curriculum to prepare young minds for preschool academics.

Visual Tracking
Visual Constancy
Visual Motor Skills
Spatial Relationships
Auditory Processing
Auditory Memory
Fine Motor Skill Development
Inferential Reasoning/Prediction
Deduction
Identifying Similarities & Differences
Classifying
Identifying Sequences
Completing Analogies
Creative Problem Solving
Colors
Logical Connectives (And, Or)
Lines (Straight, Curved, Straight and Curved)
Open & Closed Figures
Corners
Geometric Shapes (Circle, Triangle, Rectangle, Square)
Behind & In-Between
Above & Below
Measurement (Longer, Longest, Shorter, Shortest, Larger, Largest, Smaller, Smallest)
Half & Whole
Left & Right
Teaching Support
Activities are modeled to reinforce reasoning skills and concepts. Building Thinking Skills® Beginning may be used with attribute blocks (optional)
Subjects: collectionID:PKHSC, collectionID:elmSp, collectionID:CTS, Thought and thinking, Study and teaching, Reasoning, Puzzles, Creative thinking, Vocabulary, Teaching, Aids and devices, homeschool, homeschool curriculum, Primary Education, Education, Critical thinking