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 Academic Language

Building Reading Comprehension Habits in Grades 6–12

Related ReadWriteThink.org lesson plans:

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