Developing Academic Thinking Skills in Grades 6–12

A Handbook of Multiple Intelligence Activities

Jeff Zwiers

This title will help teachers design activities that develop the cognitive skills of students.
— School Library Journal

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.

An IRA Book Club selection, September 2004

© 2004 | 272 pp.
ISBN 10: 0-87207-557-5 | ISBN 13: 978-0-87207-557-3

Also of interest:

Puzzle Them First!

Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning

Also from Jeff Zwiers:

Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6–12 (2nd ed.)

Building Academic Language

Related lesson plans:

Slipping, Sliding, Tumbling: Reinforcing Cause and Effect Through Diamante Poems