Building Thinking Skills® Beginning 1

Introduction

Table of Contents

Skills Matrix................................................................................................................................................ii
Concept Matrix..........................................................................................................................................iii
About This Book........................................................................................................................................iv
Teaching Suggestions...............................................................................................................................iv

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Skills
Visual 3,7,11,12,19,23,32,38,47,52,56,70,71,75,82,83,85,93,96,97,109,111,112,115,122,124,
Tracking 126,135,159,167,173,177,179,180,183,187,188,193,208
Visual 11,14,19,24,27,32,36,37,42,43,44,47,52,58,60,63,70,71,73,74,77,78,79,81,82,85,87,
Constancy 88,89,95,99,103,104,108,109,113,116,121,123,125,127,132,134,136,140,154,
176,179,180,183,184,187,188,190,192,193,199,208,213
Visual Motor 3,7,11,12,19,23,32,38,47,52,56,70,71,75,82,83,85,93,96,97,109,111,112,115,122,124,
Skills 126,159,167,173,177,180,183,187,188,190,193,208
Spatial 21,49,57,65,68,69,80,91,102,103,118,119,125,132,134,146,147,148,149,150,151,
Relationships 154,155,156,157,161,162,163,164,175,178,183,184,187,189,190,194
Auditory * Every activity in this book requires the student to process auditory instructions.
Processing Many activities in this book require students to process one or more clues to produce
a solution.
Auditory 15,25,26,28,31,34,35,41,45,62,65,66,67,68,69,80,83,91,92,100,102,113,114,116,118,
Memory 119,120,128,149,153,160,161,165,166,169,170,171,172,174,175,178,186,189,213
Fine Motor Skill 3,7,11,12,19,23,24,37,38,47,52,70,71,75,82,83,85,93,96,97,109,111,112,115,122,124,
Development 126,159,167,173,177,180,183,187,188,190,193,208
Inferential Reasoning/ 57,62,125,129,132,133,134,135,136,137,152,154,176,180,191,192,196,197,198,
Prediction 200,201,202,203,204,205,206,209,210,212,214,215
Deduction 112,120,124,126,128,149,161,165,178,183,186,211
Identifying Similarities & 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,14,16,17,18,20,22,27,29,30,36,41,42,43,44,48,50,51,53,55,60,61,
Differences 63,64,65,73,74,76,78,79,81,83,86,87,88,89,90,93,95,96,98,99,101,102,104,105,
106,108,110,112,113,115,116,117,121,123,124,126,127,132,134,135,136,140,
164,169,170,171,172,174,176,179,182,188,192,195,199,207
Classifying 10,24,27,37,41,42,50,51,52,53,59,60,71,81,85,88,89,97,99,104,107,109,112,113,
114,121,123,124,126,127,132,134,135,136,142,146,147,148,150,151,154,159,
164,184,188,196,197,198,200,201,202,203,204,205,206,207,209,210,212,214,
215,216,217,218
Identifying Sequences 13,39,77,94,103,129,133,137,152,153,179,180,181,182,190,191,192
Completing Analogies 196,197,198,200,201,202,203,204,205,206,209,210,212,214,215
Creative Problem- 145,173,177,187,193,208
Solving

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 Building Thinking Skills® Beginning 1 Colors

Start here. Draw a line connecting

each blue figure without
touching any other color.

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My house is green,
the pond is blue,
a bird that’s old,
a bird that’s new.
Of the pictures that you see,
tell me now, can you find me?

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*For more activities like this, please see our Can You Find Me?™ series.
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 Building Thinking Skills® Beginning 1 Lines

Identifying Lines
Straight Curved Straight and
Line Line Curved Line

Point to each line below and say whether it is

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straight, curved, or straight and curved.

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 Building Thinking Skills® Beginning 1 Corners

Z S C L
Which figure is blue and has one corner?

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S O C
Which figure is blue or has one corner?

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Which figure is green and has two corners?

S Z O U
Which figure is green or has two corners?
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Beginning Geometric Shapes

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Look at each face above, then find its
unfinished picture below. Use a pencil
to draw in all the missing parts.

Color the pictures when you are finished drawing.

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 Building Thinking Skills®® Beginning 1 Inference

Which picture happened first?

Which picture happened next?
Which picture happened last?

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What will happen to the snowman when

the air outside starts to get warm?

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