First Grade Thinking Skills & Key Concepts

This highly-effective, standards-based, 168-page book is a research-based instructional program that teaches beyond most state and Common Core standards by:

    • Improving children's observation and description skills
    • Developing academic vocabulary
    • Developing thinking skills that underlie content learning (describing/defining, identifying similarities and differences, sequencing, and classifying)
    • Improving students' understanding of key concepts in mathematics, social studies, and science
    • Students completing structured exercises to write sentences and paragraphs
    • Carefully sequencing lessons to develop thinking skills
    • Employing language integration techniques to teach thinking skills and key concepts

The program builds academic vocabulary using these important concepts: describe, compare and contrast, and classify shapes, position, land forms, bodies of water, living and non-living things, food, animals, family members, jobs, vehicles, and places.

This student book can be used with a detailed, 224-page Teacher's Manual which can be purchased separately. The Teacher's Manual provides instructions to teach the lessons using research-proven methods that promote students' thinking: direct instruction, cooperative learning, whole sentence responding, and language integration activities.