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.