Books like Building thinking skills by Michael Baker & Stephanie Stevens

Teaching to Transgress argues that true education is a practice of freedom, urging teachers to empower students to challenge racial, sexual, and class boundaries.

A 32‑page collection of deductive logic puzzles designed for children in grades 3‑4, featuring clear instructions, detailed solutions, and ready‑to‑use answers for classroom, homeschool, or family activity.

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.

The Language Mechanic is a 184‑page, elementary‑grade grammar guide that teaches language rules through logical explanations and engaging practice activities.

Grades 2-4 The fun, mind-stretching puzzles in this 44-page book develop students' basic math skills including the ability to compute, estimate, create tables and charts, and explain their answer processes orally and in writing. There activities were designed to introduce and reinforce mathematical concepts in a quick, fun way. They emphasize logic and reasoning skills needed to build a strong foundation in mathematics. Solving these problems gives students important confidence when faced with new math problems. The problems in this book are thinking activities and need only elementary math skills to solve. Problems are arranged according to degree of difficulty—from easier problems in the beginning to more difficult problems towards the end. The puzzles are perfect for school, home, and travel. They are very popular as brain-start, extra credit, sponge, or reward activities. Try one and you'll be hooked! Teaching Support Easy-to-follow directions and solutions are included.

Grade 5 students develop strategies to tackle diverse math problems, strengthening reasoning and calculation fluency.