Building Thinking Skills® Primary

This is a fantastic resource to help your kids with developing their critical thinking skills. Get some attribute blocks  Attribute Blocks, Desktop-Sized, Set of 60  to be able to complete some of the exercises. Kids that can't read can still do the exercises, if an adult reads the instructions to them. We've used this with our home schooled kids age 4-6. Many of the exercises help develop pre-math and pre-literacy skills (sorting, patterns, seriation, sequences, comparisons, attributes, etc.).

So far we are very pleased with this. My daughter is in homeschool and well advanced in reading but struggling with cause and effect, focusing, and following directions. So far she not only enjoys this book but I like its content. Only has it for a few weeks, but so far quite satisfied.

This is a quality book and a great curriculum. It is too basic for my son and I should have gotten the next level so I am glad that I got this for a good price used. We are using it for review/refresher before I buy the next one.

This is our second workbook from Critical Thinking and we love it! I like that there are different sections and some repetition in each section so my child can spend time working through a concept. There's more writing/reading in this book than I was prepared for. My 5yo isn't writing proficiently yet so we are taking our time with the writing portions. Despite the surprise, I'm glad she has another avenue for practicing writing in this book.

I got the whole set of critical thinking workbooks. Yes, you need to purchase the blocks to use with workbooks. We use these workbooks everyday.

It looks brand new. I am very happy with this purchase.

I bought this book as part of a large effort to buy every book needed for preparing my children for the NYC G&T testing (OLSAT) for admission to kindergarden. This was one of the most recommended books throughout my online searches of what parents had bought and liked. When I finally got it I was incredibly disspointed and ended up not using it almost at all (though I used at least a dozen other books and study aids). One of the most annoying thing about the book is that you need to also buy a bag of shapes, which are necessary for about a third of the exercises. Also, my children found it on the easy side. They liked it, but they were clearly not challenged to the same level as with other books. We breezed through the shape exercises in just one sitting, and they got everything right, leaving us no room for improvement or discussion.

My daughters have used BTS levels one and two and have enjoyed them, though they have been challenged. I believe it has helped with their critical thinking. However, I would not recommend Primary BTS. There are activities in the book that require the child to place attribute blocks or linking blocks on the book to either compare or trace. The way the book is bound the blocks do not lay flat and fall off the page. This is very frustrating. These activities themselves are good, however the binding makes them very difficult to perform. I ended up taking the binding apart and putting the book in a 3-ring binder, which worked fairly well. There are also a fair number of activities that require writing sentences early on in the book, which was way beyond my Kindergartner. As compromise, I often have to write what he dictates.