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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.
Building Thinking Skills Level 1 software
Building Thinking Skills® Level 1 software
Our Price: $36.99

Grade(s): 2-3
Activities: 800

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.
Scratch Your Brain A1
Scratch Your Brain A1
Our Price: $16.99

Grade(s): 2-3
Activities: 126
Pages: 104

Scratch Your Brain® contains a variety of engaging, often humorous activities, puzzles, patterns, sequences, writing multi-step solutions, and more. It also encourages brainstorming and teaches students there is usually more than one way to solve a problem. Activities are sequenced by difficulty throughout each chapter to allow students to gradually build their skills.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Scratch Your Brain B1
Scratch Your Brain B1
Our Price: $16.99

Grade(s): 4-5
Activities: 180
Pages: 136

Scratch Your Brain® contains a variety of engaging, often humorous activities, puzzles, patterns, sequences, writing multi-step solutions, and more. It also encourages brainstorming and teaches students there is usually more than one way to solve a problem. Activities are sequenced by difficulty throughout each chapter to allow students to gradually build their skills.
Reading Detective A1
Reading Detective A1
Our Price: $23.99

Grade(s): 5-6
Activities: 50
Pages: 242

The standards-based critical thinking activities of Reading Detective® develops 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.
Reading Detective A1 software
Reading Detective A1 software
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 5-6
Activities: 50

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.
Math Detective A1
Math Detective A1
Our Price: $18.99

Grade(s): 5-6
Activities: 40
Pages: 113

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, A1 software
Math Detective A1 software
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 5-6
Activities: 40

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.
Scratch Your Brain C1
Scratch Your Brain C1
Our Price: $16.99

Grade(s): 6-8
Activities: 118
Pages: 88

Scratch Your Brain® contains a variety of engaging, often humorous activities, puzzles, patterns, sequences, writing multi-step solutions, and more. It also encourages brainstorming and teaches students there is usually more than one way to solve a problem. Activities are sequenced by difficulty throughout each chapter to allow students to gradually build their skills.
Reading Detective Rx
Reading Detective Rx
Our Price: $23.99

Grade(s): 6-12+
Activities: 44
Pages: 246

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.

The grades 6–12+ remedial (RX) level is organized into single-skill units with a concluding mixed-skills unit and provides an introductory lesson for each skill.
(RX activities are "prescriptive" to help underperforming students in grades 6–12+ improve their comprehension skills. Reading level is grades 4–6; story content is grades 6+.)
Building Thinking Skills Level 3 Verbal
Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal
Our Price: $29.99

Grade(s): 7-12+
Activities: 350
Pages: 384

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. This title presents each skill (for example, classifying) in the abstract verbal form. (The companion figural title presents the same skills in the semi-concrete figural 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.