FIRST GRADE THINKING SKILLS AND 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, and Employing language integration techniques to teach thinking skills and key concepts.