E-book | Hands-On Thinking Skills by Warren Hill and Ronald Edwards

The fun, mind-building activities in this 256-page book develop spatial, verbal, motor, visual, and analytical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, and science. Students have fun building manipulative relationships on each activity page using attribute blocks, pattern blocks, or interlocking cubes (sold separately). Activities and units are sequentially developed to keep students’ interest level high. Activities encourage verbal analysis to build vocabulary and to maximize verbal and spatial skill synthesis.

The concepts covered in this book include:

1. Identifying Similarities and Differences
Shapes: Matching, finding, dividing, and completing
Figures: Copying and covering

2. Forming and Following Sequences and Patterns
Tracking, paths, copying, completing shapes, and folding figures and paper

3. Classifying Objects and Groups
Objects: Color, shape, and size
Groups: Shape, color, describing, adding, separating, forming, defining, and identifying common properties

4. Creating/Interpreting Analogies
Shape, color, size, position, and pattern