Grade(s): Pre K-2 Pages: 120 (two books with 60 pages each) Nine core thinking skills form the base of verbal and non-verbal reasoning and logic and are commonly tested in primary level testing for school and gifted program placement. This title presents questions in a format similar to that of many commonly used tests. The Workbook presents the questions without words just as a student will see them during a test. The Instructor/Answer book provides a script for presenting the questions and additional information for building on the skills.
Boosts confidence and helps learners improve test scores by offering children the preparation they need for standardized tests.
Grade(s): 2-3 Pages: 370 Building Thinking Skills® teaches non-verbal and verbal reasoning. These skills are rarely explictly taught in the classroom but are essential for academic excellence and success on any assessment test. In print for over 30 years this is a world-wide top seller. Also available in software - a game like presentation of the same exercises.
Grade: 2Pages: 160, colorThis book uses powerful lessons to develop thinking skills important to academic success while teaching the key kindergarten common core concepts. Enhance cognitive development through discussion and observation. Students develop analytical skills as well as deductive and inferential reasoning skills as they work through the exercises.
Grade: 2 Pages: 192Format: paperback, reproducibleParent/Teacher Resource Manual to accompany student book. Does not contain questions. The Parent/Teacher resource contains teaching notes. It is highly recommended for new parents learn how to work with their child to develop higher order thinking skills.
Grade(s): 3-6 Pages: 96 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.
Grade(s): 3-9 Pages: 112 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.
Grade(s): 3-4 Activities: 72 Pages: 106 Word Roots teaches students the meanings of Latin prefixes, roots, and suffixes commonly used in English. The book contains reproducible worksheets with activities for practice, reinforcement, and comprehension for each root introduced. Answers included.
Develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills children need for exceptional reading comprehension.
Grade(s): 3-4 Activities: 40 Pages: 150 Science Detective® uses topics and skills drawn from national science standards to prepare your child for more advanced science courses and new assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in science.
Grade(s): 5-12+ Pages: 240 Learn Latin and Greek prefixes, suffixes and root words for improved vocabulary. The book contains reproducible worksheets with activities for practice, reinforcement, and comprehension for each root introduced. Answers included.
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.
Grade(s): 5-6 Activities: 40 Pages: 150 Science Detective® uses topics and skills drawn from national science standards to prepare your child for more advanced science courses and new assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in science.
Grade(s): 5-12+ Pages: 112 Short, fun daily activity pages for home or school with a Language Arts focus. Develops inferential reasoning, deductive thinking, synthesizing disparate information and other important skills.
Grade(s): 5-12+ Pages: 144 Short, fun daily activity pages for home or school with a Science focus. Develops inferential reasoning, deductive thinking, synthesizing disparate information and other important skills.
Grade(s): 7-8 Activities: 50 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.
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+.)
Grade(s): 7-12+ Activities: 259 Pages: 280 Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective 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.
Grade(s): 7-12+ Activities: 350 Pages: 384 Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal 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.
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