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.
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.

(sample pages from Level 1)
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).
This time, you may enter more than once! You get one entry per comment, but you may comment more than once by…
- Just leave a comment, saying you want one. That's easy!
- 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)..
- 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?
Tweeted. mypursuitof
For my second entry, I would probably choose Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal
Julie
Here are your random numbers:
26 48
Timestamp: 2009-02-02 17:24:28 UTC
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I Love the Critical Thinking Company!
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!
These books are great!
I love the critical thinking skills books and would enjoy this resource for my children! Thanks for the giveaway
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!!!!
I really want one!
My boys would really enjoy this.
Thanks
Julie
The level 3 figural book would be wonderful.
Thank you
Julie
I would love one! Isn’t that what we are truly trying to teach our children – how to think for themselves?!?! Thank you so much!
I think Building Thinking Skills Primary would be a great asset to us. Thank you!
oooh enter me please!!
I’d love to be entered in this drawing. Thanks so much for doing this.
Oh, I’ve been looking at these books for a while now, I’d love to win one and try them out!
…and, for my second entry, I have been looking at the site and I think I would choose Level 1 for my son. Thanks!
I would love to be entered – thank you!
This company makes great books! I’d love one!
Looking at the site – I’d love to have Building Thinking Skills Level 2 🙂
Please enter me in the drawing.
It looks like Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Figural would be the best fit for us.
I would love one! Thanks.
I have heard good things about the Critical Thinking company. Would love to try out their product.
I checked out the books on the Critical Thinking website and Level 1 would suit our needs best.
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.
I want one. Please.
I went to their site and was confused as to which book would be best for my almost Kindergartener.
Tweeted. mypursuitof
Looks like a great resource! Sign me up!
This would be a great tool for my kids!
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
Looks great! Please enter us! Thank you!
I would like level 2.
I want one! Looks like great!!! mind exercise.
I visited the page. I’d like any and all of the level threes. I’d enjoy for both the kids and parents!!
Please enter us. Love to have this.
Either would be great. Wish I could order both now.
Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Figural
# Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal
I want one
level 3 please
I would enjoy having this resource for my son.
The Primary-Level one is the one that would be iin our age range.
I would love to have one. Level 1. Have used it with my older daughter and absolutely loved it.
Would really like to have one.
I would really like the Level1 book. They are great.
would love to have the level 1 book. They are great.
Would love the Level 1 book. Have used them before. They are great
My boys would love to have this!!!!
Here is my second entry…Level 1 and Level 2
I have always wanted to purchase their material but just never could afford it.
Julie
For my second entry, I would probably choose Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal
Julie
Thanks for the contest. I’d love to win 🙂
I would like Level 3 for a 7th grader. Thanks!
Oh yes, they are wonderful looking.
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.
I want to win!
I want Building Thinking Skills® Primary
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I Tweeted! http://twitter.com/sumrthyme/status/1163325467
I would love to have
Building Thinking Skills® Level 3!
Ooh, I’d love one. I hope I win. I’d choose level 3 for my son. Thank you!
I’d love level 3! %%%%% (crossing my fingers)
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.
I have posted your wonderful give away on my blog. Thank you so much for all of the wonderful resources you provide!!