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Kindergarten Thinking Skills & Key Concepts Teacher's Manual
- Lightly scripted, easy to use for parents or teachers
- Includes reduced student pages with answers, along with the discussion points and questions
- Lessons will take 20-30 minutes
The Thinking Skills and Key Concepts Teacher’s Manual is necessary for success with the Thinking Skills and Key Concepts Kindergarten Student Book. Along with lightly scripted lessons, the Teacher Manual includes an introduction to the activities, guidance on evaluating thinking skills, vocabulary, and more helpful guidance for parents.
This separate Teacher's Manual provides instructions to teach the lessons using research-proven methods that promote students' thinking: direct instruction, cooperative learning, whole sentence responding, and language integration activities. The Teacher's Manual physical book is in black and white.
The Thinking Skills & Key Concepts series from The Critical Thinking Company actually seems like an expansion of the popular Building Thinking Skills program. Incorporating all its excellent conceptual development and expanding beyond mathematics into science and social study applications, this series takes students beyond state standards. Designed to be a discussion-based curriculum, teacher-student interaction is vitally important and, in fact, the publishers warn against trying to administer the program by handing your student a workbook page.
Program goals include
clarifying and practicing various thinking skills (describe, compare/contrast,
sequencing, classification), developing the academic vocabulary needed to
describe key concepts in mathematics, science, and social studies, and to
promote clear conceptualization of key concepts even in the primary grades
knowing these will become more complex in later grades.
The consumable Student Books incorporate instructional methods such as teaching skills explicitly, using different learning styles for some teaching, responding in whole sentences, and applying the concept in new forms. The Teacher Manuals include reduced student pages with answers, introductory information for the course and each chapter, and more. This series is an excellent choice if you desire to make sure your student is prepared for higher order thinking in upper grades and for standardized testing.
Product Format: | Paperback |
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Grade: | K |
Brand: | Critical Thinking Company |
ISBN: | 9781601447685 |
Length in Inches: | 11 |
Width in Inches: | 8.5 |
Height in Inches: | 0.5 |
Weight in Pounds: | 1.25 |