Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6-12: A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities / Edition 1

by Jeff Zwiers

Overview

Help students develop the academic thinking skills and language they need to understand challenging content concepts. This easy-to-use handbook of skill-based activities is organized into three sections:
Foundation and background
Twelve academic thinking skills (analyzing, comparing, categorizing and classifying, identifying cause and effect, problem solving, persuading, empathizing, synthesizing, interpreting, evaluating, communicating, applying)
Reproducible blackline masters for activities
Chapters present skills in order of complexity, with related activities that tap into multiple intelligences-especially valuable for those students who struggle with verbal and math/logical intelligences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872075573
Publisher:	International Literacy Association
Publication date:	10/28/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.98(h) x 0.64(d)
Age Range:	11 - 17 Years