Building Thinking Skills ® Beginning Wins Teacher's Choice Award from Learning ® Magazine

The Critical Thinking Co™ continues its award-winning tradition with a 2009 Learning® Magazine Teacher’s Choice Award.

Seaside, CA, February 06, 2009 --(PR.com)-- The Critical Thinking Co.—winner of 12 awards for excellence in education, technology, and parenting in 2008 proudly announces its first 2009 product award. Learning ® Magazine awarded Building Thinking Skills Beginning (for ages 34) a 2009 Teacher’s Choice Award for the Family.

Building Thinking Skills Beginning ©2008, provides fun, highly effective and engaging reasoning activities to improve the vocabulary, pre-reading, pre-writing, math, logic, spatial, and auditory processing skills of preschoolers. It teaches children to use organized analysis instead of guesswork to solve problems as it develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, math, writing, and science. The title may be used as a complete critical thinking curriculum to prepare young minds for preschool academics. The book uses colorful, easy to understand activities, sequenced in small steps, many game like, and solvable in a short period.

Michael Baker, The Critical Thinking Co. president and CEO said, “We are delighted that Building Thinking Skills Beginning has been recognized with a Teachers’ Choice Award. The reviewers liked the variety of activities presented with different colors, patterns, etc. and the scaffolding approach, which allows children to anticipate what do to on each page, needing less help. They also appreciated the way the book integrates critical thinking skills with core subject areas addressing skills used across the curriculum.”

“We are very proud of the Building Thinking Skills ® series and the recognition that it has earned in the education, technology and parenting communities,” said Nile Duppstadt, vice president of The Critical Thinking Co. “The series has won countless awards over its 20year history as the #1 thinking skills program in the world. We are excited to help children learn to think critically as young people, even before they enter school.”

Learning ® Magazine Teachers’ Choice Awards program is one of the most recognized and prestigious awards in the education market. Teachers from across the United States judge the entries and evaluate how effectively the products are incorporated into the home environment.Each product is evaluated on educational value, originality and creativity, ease of use, safety and durability, and high interest level and motivation for children. Once the scoring is complete, the scores for each product are averaged. Only those products that meet the stringent standards of the teacher committees are selected. For more information about the Teacher’s Choice Awards and to view the complete list of award winners, visit: http://www.theeducationcenter.com.

Recent Critical Thinking Co.™ awards: www.criticalthinking.com/company/awards.jsp

Pricing and Availability
The retail price of Building Thinking Skills ® Beginning for ages 34
is $29.99. The award winning title is now available and can be purchased at more than 1,800 specialty teacher and homeschooling retail stores, by calling 18004584849, or by visiting www.criticalthinking.com.

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