Building Thinking Skills - Teacher's Edition  Instruction and Answer Guide for Level 1  

Paperback – 1997 

Skills in Building Thinking Skills

Figural Skills: describing shapes, figural similarities and differences, figural sequences, figural classifications, figural analogies

Verbal Skills: describing things, verbal similarities and differences, verbal sequences, verbal classifications, verbal analogies

The five cognitive skills developed in this series  (describing, finding similarities and differences, sequencing, classifying, and forming analogies) were selected because of their prevalence and relevance in academic disciplines. These analysis skills are required in all content areas, including the arts. Since improved school performance is an important goal of thinking skills instruction, many variations of each of these thinking skills are demonstrated in Building Thinking Skills exercises.