Ages: 6-12
Grades: 1-7

These activities integrate key problem-solving skills and show students how to approach problems systematically, dynamically, and flexibly.

Build basic reasoning skills with step-by-step instruction and activities designed to build on success.

Students learn to:

• identify problems
• brainstorm, rank, and exclude solutions to problems
• formulate multi-step solutions to problems
• identify the resources needed to solve problems.

The book is written in the proven format of the Spotlight Series with:

• activities sequenced by complexity
• visual cues that are gradually faded
• skills defined in student-friendly terms
• a variety of curricular and daily living topics
• simple sentence structure and vocabulary so students can focus on learning the concepts
• minimal writing requirements in the beginning lessons
• a pretest/posttest

40 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2007