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Can You Find Me PreK
Can You Find Me? PreK
Our Price: $15.99

Grade(s): PreK
Activities: 80
Pages: 101

Can You Find Me? develops skills in reading readiness, science, math, and social studies using five basic thinking skills: similarities and differences, sequences, classifi cations, analogies, and logic. Each riddle requires identification of two or more clues to deduce the answer. Activities may be enhanced by teaching additional information about the animals, objects, shapes, letters, and numbers used in the riddles.

Content is aligned with state standards making this a great test preparation book.
Can You Find Me K-1
Can You Find Me? K-1
Our Price: $15.99

Grade(s): K-1
Activities: 80
Pages: 101

Can You Find Me? develops skills in reading readiness, science, math, and social studies using five basic thinking skills: similarities and differences, sequences, classifi cations, analogies, and logic. Each riddle requires identification of two or more clues to deduce the answer. Activities may be enhanced by teaching additional information about the animals, objects, shapes, letters, and numbers used in the riddles.
Language Smarts Bk B
Language Smarts Book B
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 1
Activities: 2100
Pages: 352

This fun, mind building book teaches standards-based language arts and develops critical thinking skills. Language Smarts™ can serve as a core curriculum for language arts or as a supplemental resource. Empower your child's mind as you improve their vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, reading, and writing skills.
Building Thinking Skills Level 1
Building Thinking Skills® Level 1
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 2-3
Activities: 1072
Pages: 370

Building Thinking Skills®provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill set provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.

The activities are sequenced developmentally. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: observe, recognize, and describe characteristics; distinguish similarities and differences; and identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies.
Mathematical Reasoning Book 1, Student
Mathematical Reasoning Book 1, Student
Our Price: $24.99

Grade(s): 2-3
Activities: 282
Pages: 288

Mathematical Reasoning™ helps your child devise strategies to solve a wide variety of math problems. These books emphasize problem solving and computation to build the math reasoning skills necessary for success in higher level math and math assessments.

These highly effective activities take students far beyond drill-and-practice by using step-by-step, discussion-based problem solving to develop a conceptual bridge between computation and the reasoning required for upper-level math. Activities and units spiral slowly, allowing students to become comfortable with concepts but also challenging them to continue building their math skills.

Instruction/Answer Guide is sold separately.
Language Smarts Bk C
Language Smarts Book C
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 2
Activities: 2030
Pages: 320

This fun, mind building book teaches standards-based language arts and develops critical thinking skills. Language Smarts™ can serve as a core curriculum for language arts or as a supplemental resource. Empower your child's mind as you improve their vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, reading, and writing skills.
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Math Detective: Beginning
Math Detective Beginning
Our Price: $18.99

Grade(s): 3-4
Activities: 38
Pages: 150

Math Detective® uses topics and skills drawn from national math standards to prepare your students for advanced math courses and assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math.

Students read a short story that includes a chart, table, or graph. Next they answer critical thinking questions to improve their understanding of the math concept and develop their critical thinking (comprehension) skills. Students can’t just scan the story for answers—they must carefully analyze and synthesize the information from the text and the chart, table, or graph to explain and support their answers.
Math Detective Beginning software
Math Detective® Beginning software
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 3-4
Activities: 37

Math Detective® uses topics and skills drawn from national math standards to prepare students for advanced math courses and assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math.
Reading Detective Beginning
Reading Detective, Beginning
Our Price: $23.99

Develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills children need for exceptional reading comprehension.
Reading Detective Beginning software
Reading Detective, Beginning software
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 3-4
Activities: 62

The standards-based critical thinking activities of Reading Detective® develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills children need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping children understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary.
Editor In Chief Beginning
Editor In Chief Beginning
Our Price: $16.99

Grade(s): 3-4
Activities: 40
Pages: 96

Editor in Chief® improves your child's grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and attention to detail.

Students identify and circle errors in each story. Then they insert, modify, or delete punctuation, words, and short phrases to make corrections. An editing checklist and annotated guide to grammar, usage, and punctuation are provided to help focus students' thinking and allow them to match their answers to applicable rules. Detailed answers are also included.
Editor in Chief Beginning software
Editor in Chief Beginning software
Our Price: $25.99

Grade(s): 3-4
Activities: 40

Editor in Chief® improves your child's grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and attention to detail.

Students identify and click on errors in each story. Then they select the category and specific rule that applies to each error, prompting the software to correct the error. On-screen instructions, hints, rules, and answers allow students to work, learn, and succeed independently.
Building Thinking Skills Level 2
Building Thinking Skills® Level 2
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 4-6
Activities: 1374
Pages: 416

Building Thinking Skills®provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill set provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.

The activities are sequenced developmentally. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented first in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and then in the abstract verbal form. Children learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words as they: observe, recognize, and describe characteristics; distinguish similarities and differences; and identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies.
Building Thinking Skills Level 2 software
Building Thinking Skills® Level 2 software
Our Price: $36.99

Building Thinking Skills®provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as visual and auditory processing. This exceptional skill set provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success on any assessment test.
Mathematical Reasoning Book 2, Student
Mathematical Reasoning Book 2, Student
Our Price: $24.99

Grade(s): 4-8
Activities: 283
Pages: 296

Mathematical Reasoning™ helps your child devise strategies to solve a wide variety of math problems. These books emphasize problem solving and computation to build the math reasoning skills necessary for success in higher level math and math assessments.

These highly effective activities take students far beyond drill-and-practice by using step-by-step, discussion-based problem solving to develop a conceptual bridge between computation and the reasoning required for upper-level math. Activities and units spiral slowly, allowing students to become comfortable with concepts but also challenging them to continue building their math skills.

Instruction/Answer Guide is sold separately.
Mathematical Reasoning Book 2. Teacher
Mathematical Reasoning Book 2. Teacher
Our Price: $13.99

Grade(s): 4-8
Activities: 283

Instruction/Answer Guide includes concept overviews, answers, and focus questions that lead students to think mathematically as they verbalize the steps of working through concrete and abstract processes.
Word Roots Beginning
Word Roots Beginning
Our Price: $16.99

Grade(s): 3-4
Activities: 72
Pages: 106

Word Roots teaches students the meanings of Latin prefixes, roots, and suffixes commonly used in English.
Novel Thinking - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Novel Thinking - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Our Price: $13.99

Grade(s): 3-6
Pages: 105

Help children actively engage in the reading process by focusing on those skills that lead to better comprehension, higher test scores, and a greater love of reading. The engaging chapter-by-chapter activities focus on true comprehension - not just word searches that measure surface comprehension.
Vocabulary Smarts Book 1
Vocabulary Smarts Book 1
Our Price: $12.99

Grade(s): 2-3

Pages: 100

Vocabulary Smarts builds children's vocabulary and knowledge of high-frequency words by teaching them the meanings and usage variations between high-frequency words.
Vocabulary Smarts Book 2
Vocabulary Smarts Book 2
Our Price: $12.99

Grade(s): 4-5

Pages: 100

Vocabulary Smarts builds children's vocabulary and knowledge of high-frequency words by teaching them the meanings and usage variations between high-frequency words.