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GIVEAWAY! 2 Building Thinking Skills Books (closed)

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Description & Features (from The Critical Thinking Co.)

Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing. This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment.

(sample pages from the Primary Level book)

The activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they:

  Observe, recognize, and describe characteristics.
  Distinguish similarities and differences.
  Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies.

These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects.

Building Thinking Skills 1 sample by you.
(sample pages from Level 1)

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We have the purple (primary) book for our 5yo and the red (Level 1) for our 8yo.  We use the books by allowing the children access to them at will, and for times when I need them to be quiet while I concentrate on their older siblings.  Both our 5 year old and 8 year old love "my book" and pull it out often.

Would you like a Building Thinking Skills book?  We are giving away two books, one to each of two winners. 

If you win this giveaway, you will get to choose which Building Thinking Skills book you'd like out of the several listed here (only the books with titles that include "Building Thinking Skills" — they are listed at $29.99 each).

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This time, you may enter more than once!  You get one entry per comment, but you may comment more than once by…

  1. Just leave a comment, saying you want one. That's easy!
  2. Visit The Critical Thinking Co at this page, then come back here and tell me which of their Building Thinking Skills books you would like to have if you win (you can change your mind later).. 
  3. Blog about this giveaway on your blog or website or Twitter or Facebook it, then come back here and leave a link to the blog post, site URL, tweet or Facebook page. 

That's 3 ways to increase your chances of winning!  You can enter up to 3 times.  But, remember, you need to enter 3 separate times, because that makes it much easier for me to count up entries when I go to Random. org to select the winner.

More Rules, sigh:

  • Click on "Comments" below* to leave your comment and other entries (separately, remember)
  • The form will ask for your email address but only I will see it.  Promise.  And I never, ever spam
  • One winner will be selected randomly from the entries (comments) through Random.org's random number generator
  • US entries only (head ducking; I'm sorry!)
  • Deadline:  Super Bowl Sunday, February 1, midnight CST ( as in, 11:59pm)

Comment away!  Who wants one?

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UPDATED 2/2/2009:  This giveaway is closed. The winners of this giveaway are:
 
Robin, who said:

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Posted by: Robin| January 30, 2009 at 12:17 AM

and…Julie Cinquina, who said:

For my second entry, I would probably choose Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal
Julie

Posted by: Julie Cinquina | January 30, 2009 at 02:41 PM

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Timestamp: 2009-02-02 17:24:28 UTC

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  2. I never win anything ever…. not just here. I think it is absolutely wonderful what you are doing and I appreciate the time that you spend orchestrating all of these things to help make homeschooling easier. Kudos to you! My family and I truly appreciate your hard work and dedication!

  4. I love the critical thinking skills books and would enjoy this resource for my children! Thanks for the giveaway

  5. I’d like to win the Building Thinking Skills Level 1 (gr.2-3) I’d LOVE to get my children to USE their brains, really make them think about things and then USE their brains to come up with solutions! One thing I think is lacking in America today is enough people who THINK things through!!! I believe these books can help to achieve a nation of THINKERS!!!!

  21. I have heard good things about the Critical Thinking company. Would love to try out their product.

  22. I checked out the books on the Critical Thinking website and Level 1 would suit our needs best.

  23. Never heard of this, sounds interesting. We would enjoy, I believe, Building and Thinking Skill 1 and Building and Thinking Skill 1 Instuction and Answer Guide. Our third choice would be Building and Thinking Skills CD set.

  29. I would like to be entered, and by the way thanks so much for all the ideas and giveaways . It makes homeschooling my son alot easier. I just joind that time4learning and he loves it! Angel

  33. I visited the page. I’d like any and all of the level threes. I’d enjoy for both the kids and parents!!

  35. Either would be great. Wish I could order both now.
    Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Figural
    # Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal

  48. For my second entry, I would probably choose Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal
    Julie

  52. What a wonderful giveaway. I do not know how you do these great giveaways! I think my 5 yo would be great with the primary level.
    Thanks so much for all you do.

  59. Third entry. I’d love level 3 for my son. Thanks for a great blog! There are few that I read on any kind of regular basis, but this is one of them.