Books like Building thinking skills by Howard Black

Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and Slow" explains how two distinct mental systems shape our judgments and decisions, offering insights into the biases that influence everyday choices.

Rolf Dobelli presents 99 concise chapters that explain everyday cognitive biases, showing how awareness can sharpen decision‑making at work and in life.

A colorful, 224‑page curriculum that builds preschoolers’ critical‑thinking, vocabulary, and reasoning skills through engaging activities in reading, math, science, and social studies.

Teaching students to think clearly and critically through adaptable thinking routines that make classroom discussion visible and deepen content understanding.

Provides activities for cognitive skill development and analytic reasoning using figural and spatial perception exercises.

An engaging 412‑page resource that builds critical thinking, vocabulary and reasoning for students in grades 4‑6 through sequenced figural‑spatial and verbal activities.

Grades 2-3 This engaging 320-page book develops the critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 2-3. The Building Thinking Skills® series is the bestselling thinking skills program in the world! The engaging, highly-effective 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. Students also learn important academic vocabulary, concepts, and skills as they analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words by: - Observing, recognizing, and describing characteristics - Distinguishing similarities and differences - Identifying and completing sequences, classifications, and analogies These processes help students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects. LEVEL 1 Figural-Spatial Skills Describing shapes Figures: compare / describe /copy / enlarge / divide Diagrams: overlapping classes / Venn / branching / cycle Mental pattern folding / symmetry Directionality / Position in space Mental rotation / reflection / tumbling / stacking / folding of 2-D objects Congruence / area / volume Analogies: size / color / orientation / detail Visual motor integration and memory Use of graphic organizers Verbal Skills Spelling / Vocabulary / Writing: describing things and words Following and writing 1-, 2-, and 3-step directions Antonyms / synonyms Analogies: kind of / part of / used to / association / action Deductive / Inductive reasoning Parts of a whole Map reading Writing directions Logic: if-then / yes-no / true-false Orientation: person / place / time Auditory memory Language acquisition Teaching Support Activities are modeled to reinforce skills and concepts. An answer guide is included.

A developmental, skill‑building series for grades 7‑12 that strengthens verbal and nonverbal reasoning, vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, figural‑spatial, visual, and auditory processing through sequenced activities and detailed answer guides.

A 64‑page collection of deductive logic puzzles that sharpen reading comprehension, mental organization, and real‑life problem‑solving skills for grades 1‑2.