Spotlight on Reasoning & Problem Solving: 6-Book Set E-Book

Ages: 6-12Grades: 1-7

Build basic reasoning skills with step-by-step instruction in six crucial areas. The activities are designed to build success at every level. Students become purposeful, active thinkers as they focus on one thinking strategy at a time.

Each book targets a specific reasoning and problem solving skill and develops metacognitive thinking with:

• activities sequenced by complexity
• visual cues that are gradually faded
• skills defined in student-friendly terms
• a variety of curricular and daily living topics
• simple sentence structure and vocabulary so students can focus on learning the concepts
• minimal writing requirements at the beginning levels
• a pretest/posttest

The 6-book set consists of:

• Causes & EffectsStudents understand that actions have consequences and that things don't "just happen." There's a reason for the outcomes. This book also explores multiple causes and preventing harmful effects.
• Comparing & ContrastingThis book presents one of the most basic of language and thinking skills through unique visual and verbal activities.
• Facts & OpinionsThese activities help your students separate truth from opinion and decipher messages based on their intentions.
• Making Predictions & InferencesHelp your students piece together information, step-by-step, to make informed and correct inferences and predictions.
• SequencingThis basic building block of logical and critical thinking is presented in its simplest forms first and progresses to multi-step and narrative-based sequences.
• Solving ProblemsStudents learn to approach problems systematically and flexibly. Strategies and visual maps help them plan solutions to simple and more complex problems.

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252 pages • e-book • ©2007