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Of the titles recommended below Building Thinking Skills Level 3 figural and verbal teach core analytical skills.  If you've got doubts as to your ability then start there. Mind Benders are deductive logic puzzles. Red Herrings Mysteries teach inferential reasoning.  Critical Thinking is a classic traditional critical course covering everything you need to know. While it can be used by a motivated individual it is designed as a discussion course.
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Building Thinking Skills Level 3 Verbal
Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 350
Pages: 384

Building Thinking Skills®provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill set provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.

The activities are sequenced developmentally. This title presents each skill (for example, classifying) in the abstract verbal form. (The companion figural title presents the same skills in the semi-concrete figural form.) Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: observe, recognize, and describe characteristics; distinguish similarities and differences; and identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies.
Building Thinking Skills Level 3 Figural
Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Figural
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 259
Pages: 280

Building Thinking Skills®provides highly effective nonverbal reasoning activities to improve vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill set provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.

The activities are sequenced developmentally. This title presents each skill (for example, classifying) in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form. (The companion verbal title presents the same skills in the abstract verbal form.) Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: observe, recognize, and describe characteristics; distinguish similarities and differences; and identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies.
Mind Benders: B1
Mind Benders® B1
Our Price: $9.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 14
Pages: 32

Deductive reasoning puzzles teach children logic and improve reading comprehension and test scores.
Mind Benders: B2
Mind Benders® B2
Our Price: $9.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 14
Pages: 33

Deductive reasoning puzzles teach children logic and improve reading comprehension and test scores.
Mind Benders B1/B2 software
Mind Benders® B1/B2 software
Our Price: $25.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 28

Deductive reasoning puzzles teach children logic and improve reading comprehension and test scores.
Mind Benders: B3
Mind Benders® B3
Our Price: $9.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 14
Pages: 34

Deductive reasoning puzzles teach children logic and improve reading comprehension and test scores.
Mind Benders: B4
Mind Benders® B4
Our Price: $9.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 14
Pages: 34

Deductive reasoning puzzles teach children logic and improve reading comprehension and test scores.
Mind Benders B3/B4 software
Mind Benders® B3/B4 software
Our Price: $25.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 28

Deductive reasoning puzzles teach children logic and improve reading comprehension and test scores.
A Case of Red Herrings B2
Red Herring Mysteries Level 2
Our Price: $14.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 64
Pages: 69

Students learn to think beyond literal meaning!

A Case of Red Herrings develops students' inferential and deductive thinking skills for more effective reading, listening, and logical thinking. The activities also encourage creative brainstorming and flexible thinking.
Critical Thinking Book 1, Student
Critical Thinking Book 1, Student
Our Price: $21.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 70
Pages: 178

Critical Thinking teaches your child to think logically, present well-developed arguments, and see through unsupported arguments. Book One helps students develop the fundamentals of logic, argumentation, and critical reading.

Easy-to-understand explanations of concepts are followed by examples and real-life, often humorous, discussion problems. Students learn to identify valid and invalid claims and arguments, sufficient and insufficient evidence, fact and opinion, generalizations, emotional arguments, inferences, deductions, and more.

Instruction/Answer Guide sold separately.
Critical Thinking Book 1, Teacher
Critical Thinking Book 1, Teacher
Our Price: $9.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 70
Pages: 178

Instruction guide to accompany Critical Thinking, Book 1
Critical Thinking Book 2, Student
Critical Thinking Book 2, Student
Our Price: $24.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 66
Pages: 247

Critical Thinking teaches your child to think logically, present well-developed arguments, and see through unsupported arguments. Book Two builds on the skills developed in Book One, while teaching more advanced concepts.

Instruction/Answer Guide sold separately.
Critical Thinking Book 2, Teacher
Critical Thinking Book 2, Teacher
Our Price: $9.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 66
Pages: 247

Instruction guide to accompany Critical Thinking, Book 2