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 1 may be used with Attribute Blocks (optional). See components sold separately above for ordering information for these manipulatives.

Teaching Support
Activities are modeled to reinforce reasoning skills and concepts. Building Thinking Skills® Beginning level may be used with attribute blocks.

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