Category Index

Category Index

Read Tonight - Our Companion Website

Thinking Skills
• Books by Series
> Building Thinking Skills
> Can You Find Me?
> Creative Thinking Puzzlers (Dr Funster)
> Critical Thinking
> IQ Tests
> Quick Think Math (Dr Funster)
> Study Skills and Organization, Teaching Learning
> Logic Safari
> Mind Benders
• Pre 2011 Edition
> Red Herring Mysteries and Inference Jones
> Summer Skill Retention
> Think Analogies
> Think-a-Minutes (Dr Funster)
> Thinking Skills and Key Concepts
> Visual Mind Benders (Dr Funster)
> Visual Perceptual Skill Building
• LUK Learning System for young children
> How to Play
• SpecialLUK Animated Demonstration
• bambinoLUK Static Demonstration
• bambinoLUK Animated Demonstration
• miniLUK Static Demonstration
• miniLUK Animated Demonstration
> Most Popular Beyond123 LUK Sets
> Reviews and Awards
> specialLUK (age 2)
> bambinoLUK (age 3-5)
> miniLUK Brain Challenger (age 5-7)
> miniLUK Advance (age 6 plus)
> Veritech - LUK from Canada
• About Veritech
• How to Play Veritech
• Why Teachers Like Veritech
• Standards Correlation Summaries
• Baba and Bambino Books
• Veritech Books
• Quickcheck Math
• Software
• Resources for Parents
• Analogies
• Attention to Detail
• Creativity
• Critical Thinking
• Deductive Logic
> Logic with Books with Language
> Logic with Books with Numbers, Symbols and Codes
> Logic with Games
> Logic with Shapes
• Inferential Reasoning
• Listening - auditory reasoning
• Matrix Reasoning
• Memory
• Nonverbal Reasoning
• Organizational Skills
• Manipulatives for Spatial Reasoning and Numeracy
• Quantitative Reasoning
• Sequencing
• Spatial Reasoning
• Visual Processing

All Publishers
• Aristotle Circle for Targeted Test Preparation
> Review of Aristotle Circle's Material
• Beyond123 LUK Learning System for Hands on Independent Learning
• Brault & Bouthillier - Veritech (LUK from Canada)
• Carson-Dellosa Publishing
> Common Core Language Arts and Math
• Columbia Historical Games for History made Real
• Critical Thinking Company for Critical Thinking Skill Development
> New Releases
> Testimonials
> What is Critical Thinking?
> Why is Critical Thinking Essential?
> Why Teach Critical Thinking Skills?
> More Articles from The Critical Thinking Company
• The Ability to Change Your Mind
• Are Your Children's Games Mentally Engaging?
• Are Your Kids Exceeding State And Federal Standards?
• Brain Teasers Are Not Just For Gifted Kids
• Build Confidence And A Love Of Learning!
• Clever Ideas for Smart Summertime Fun!
• Early Learning Should Be Fun!
• Edutainment vs. Educational Value
• Guide To Inductive & Deductive Reasoning
• How Did You Arrive At The Correct Answer?
• How to Assess Critical Thinking
• Infusing Teaching Thinking Into Subject-Area Instruction
• Involved Parents Make A Big Difference
• Learning How To Learn: The Key To Success
• Maintaining Cognitive Health
• Math Activities for Middle School Enrichment
• Parents: A Child's First & Best Resource For Learning
• Preschool Academics: Feeding The Developing Mind
• Problem-Solving: What Skills Are Really Involved?
• Question and Think For Yourself
• Reading Critically Between The Lines
• Reading People: Non-Verbal Communication Clues
• Recommended Autism Resources for Developing Critical Thinking Skills
• The Relationship Between Content and Thinking
• Sherlock Holmes: The Skill That Made Him Famous!
• Standardized Testing: Learn to Reason it Out
• Structuring Assignments To Promote Critical Thinking
• Teach The Basics Even Before Preschool!
• Teach Kids How To Discover The Answer
• Teaching To The Middle Of The Road
• Time to Sharpen Your Reading and Listening Skills
• Turn Game Time Into Brain Time
• What Makes A Good Reader?
• Who Can Benefit From Cognitive Rehabilitation?
• What is Critical Thinking?
• Why is Critical Thinking Essential?
• Why Teach Critical Thinking Skills?
• Didax for Thinking Skills Activities
• Flash Kids Summer Skills Workbooks and Curriculum Enrichment
• FoxMind for Logic and Spatial Reasoning
• Funny Bone Toys
• Hickory Grove Press for Enriching and Challenging Math
> A Word from the Author
• Incentive Publications for Middle School Enrichment, Math and Language
• Kane Miller - children's books from around the world
> All Kane Miller Books
> Board Books and Friezes
> Cloth Books and Plush Toys
> Picture Books - All Ages
> Activity Books
> Shine-a-Light
> From the USA and Michelle Nelson-Schmidt
> Fiction
• Billie's Super Duper Adventure Series
• Billie B. Brown (4-7 years)
• Hey Jack! (4-7 years)
• Lily the Elf (5-7 years)
• Anna Hibiscus (5-9 years)
• Billie B. Mysteries (6-9 years)
• EJ12: Girl Hero Series (7-10 years)
• Wheelnuts (7-10 years)
• Fizz the Police Dog (7-10 years)
• Pet Vet (7-11 years)
• Pup Patrol (7-11 years)
• Mythical 9th Division (7-11 years)
• Bear Grylls (Age 7 and up)
• Extreme Adventures (8-12 years)
• I am Jack (8-12 years)
• Ella Diaries (8-12 years)
• Axel & Beast (8-11 years)
• The Gateway (8-12 years)
• The Mapmaker Chronicles Series (9-14 years)
• Impossible Quest Series (9-13 years)
• Star of Deltora (9-14 years)
• Choose Your Own Ever After (10-14 years)
• The Sinclair's Mysteries (11 years and up)
• Kumori Chronicles (age 14 years and up)
• Learning Resources Manipulatives
• Monkeying Around for Advanced Dot-to-Dot Books
> Reviews and Awards
• New Monic for Vocabulary Building
• Prufrock Press for Logic, Analogies and More.
> Logic Countdown
• Red Hen Books and Toys
• SET Enterprises Games of Fun, Perception and Challenge
> Award Winners
• Shell Education/Teacher Created Resources for Core Academics - Reading, Math, Language
• Smart Games/Tangoes for logic and spatial reasoning
• Source Books for Test Preparation
• Spectrum Books for Test Preparation
> Spectrum Test Practice
> Spectrum Test Preparation
• Sterling for IQ Test Questions
• Think Tonight for Bundled Top Picks
• Think-a-Lot Games for Creativity

Bundles
• Think Tonight Bundles for Gifted and Talented
• Grade Level Book Bundles from The Critical Thinking Company
• Test Preparation Bundles from The Critical Thinking Company
• Beyond123's LUK Bundles
• Other Bundles

Language Arts
• Books by Series
> 180 Days of Reading and 180 Days of Language (Practice: Assess, Diagnose)
> Bright & Brainy
> Comprehension and Critical Thinking
> Daily Mind Builders
• Dr. Dooriddles
> Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases
> Nonfiction Comprehension Test Practice
> Read and Succeed: Comprehension
> Editor in Chief
> Language Mechanic
> Language Smarts
> Novel Thinking
> Reading Detective
> Think Analogies
> Use It! Don't Lose It! Language Arts
> What Would You Do?
• Common Core
• Comprehensive Grade Level Curriculum
• Discussion
• Early Learning
• Grammar
• History
• Language Puzzles
• Phonics
• Phonological Awareness
• Reading Comprehension
• Vocabulary
• Writing

Beyond123 - MiniLUK

Directory of Tests
• Bracken Basic Concept Scale-Revised (BBCS-R)
• Bracken School Readiness Assessment (BSRA)
> About the Bracken School Readiness Assessment (BSRA)
• California Achievement Tests (CAT)
> About the California Achievement Tests (CAT)
• California Critical Thinking Skills Test (CCTST)
• California Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR)
• Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT®)
• Comprehensive Testing Program (CTP-4)
• Cornell Critical Thinking Tests (CTCT)
• Educational Records Bureau (ERB)
> Comprehensive Testing Program (CTP-4)
> WPPSI for Pre K and K Admissions Testing
• 2-3 year old
• 4-5 year old
• 6-7 year old
> Independent School Entrance Exam
• GATE (Gifted and Talented Education)
• Hunter College High School Admission Assessment
• Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE)
• InView
> InView Subtests
• SCAT (John-Hopkins CTY)
• Iowa Tests of Basic Skills® (ITBS®)
• Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children (KABC)
• Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (KBIT)
• Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test® (NNAT®)
• Ohio Achievement Tests
• Otis-Lennon School Ability Test® (OLSAT® -8)
• Palmetto Assessment Challenge Test (PACT)
• Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT-R)
• Raven's Progressive Matrices (RPM)
• SAGES-2
• Secondary School Admissions Test (SSAT)
> SSAT Elementary Test
> SSAT Middle Test
> SSAT Upper Test
• Stanford Achievement Test™ (SAT/10)
• Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale Fifth Edition
> About the Stanford-Binet
> Summary of Recommendations
> 2-3 year old
> 4-5 year old
> 6-7 year old
> 8-9 year old
> 10-11 year old
> 12 and up
• TAG (Talented and Gifted Education)
• TerraNova CTBS / TerraNova, The Second Edition (CAT/6)
• Torrance Test of Creative Thinking
• Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-IV)
• Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI)
• Wide Range Achievement Test (WRAT) (WRAT-3)
• Woodcock-Johnson® Tests of Cognitive Ability (WJ-R®)
• Test Acronymns

Test Preparation
• Help! The Test is Next Week!
• How Can my Child do Better?
• Directory of Tests
• The Best Time for Test Preparation is Now

CogAT (Cognitive Abilities Test)
• About the CogAT® (Cognitive Abilities Test®)
> CogAT Form 6 vs CogAT Form 7
> CogAT® Sample Questions
• CogAT Form 6 Primary Level (used in Gr Pre K -2)
• CogAT Form 7 Picture Format (used for ages 5-8 years)
• CogAT Form 6 Multi-Level (used in Gr 2-12)
• CogAT Form 7 Text Format (used for ages 9-18 years)
• Test Preparation Bundles for Gifted Learners Taking the CogAT®
• Help! The Test is Next Week!
• Grade K
• Grade 1
• Grade 2
• Grade 3
• Grade 4
• Grade 5
• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8
• Grade 9-12
• Test Preparation Bundles for the CogAT from The Critical Thinking Company
> CogAT® Test Preparation Guide (Critical Thinking Company)

The Critical Thinking Co.

GATE/TAG (Gifted & Talented)
• How do we Prepare for the Test?

NNAT2® (Naglieri Non-Verbal)
• About the Naglieri Non-Verbal Ability Test® (NNAT®) (NNAT2®)
• Test Preparation Bundles for Gifted Learners taking the NNAT® or NNAT2®
• Pre K
• Kindergarten
• Grade 1
• Grade 2
• Grades 3-4
• Grades 5-6
• Grades 7-9
• Grades 10-12
• NNAT® Test Preparation Bundles for average learners
> NNAT® Test Preparation Guide (Critical Thinking Company)

OLSAT® (Otis-Lennon)
• About the OLSAT®
• What your child needs to know to do better on the OLSAT®
• Skill Matrix and Recommended Products
• NYC Parents with Children taking the verbal OLSAT® and NNAT®
• Test Preparation Bundles for Gifted Children taking the OLSAT®
• Two Years Old
• Three Years Old
• Grade Pre K (2008 birthday - 4 years old at time of testing)
• Grade Pre K (2007 birthday - 5 years old at time of testing)
• Grade K
• Grade 1
• Grade 2
> Skills and Related Products
• Grade 3
• Grade 4
> Skills and Related Products
• Grade 5
> Skill Matrix and Recommended Products
• Grade 6
• Grade 7
• Grade 8
• Grade 9-12
• Test Preparation Bundles for the OLSAT® from The Critical Thinking Company
> Test Prep Guide for the OLSAT® from The Critical Thinking Company

SCAT (John-Hopkins CTY)
• Easy SCAT picks by grade
• SCAT picks for student in Gr 2
• SCAT picks for student in Gr 3
• SCAT picks for student in Gr 4
• SCAT picks for student in Gr 5
• SCAT picks for student in Gr 6
• SCAT picks for student in Gr 7
• SCAT picks for student in Gr 8

WPPSI-III & IV (used for ERB)
• Insiders Guide to ERB - Modified WPPSI for private school testing
• About the WPPSI
• WPPSI Subtests
• 2-3 year old (toddler)
• 4-5 year old (preschooler)
• 6-7 year old (kindergarten)
• Test Prep Bundles for the WPPSI® Assessment from The Critical Thinking Company
> Test Prep Guide for the WPPSI® Assessment from The Critical Thinking Company

Mathematics
• Balance Benders and Math Bafflers - deductive thinking and pre-algebra
• Challenge Math - enrichment and problem solving
• Complete the Picture Math - math, reading and visual reasoning
• Common Core
• Crypto Mind Benders - algebraic thinking with encryption
• Dr. Funsters Quick Think Math -basic math skills and confidence
• Early Learning - games and manipulatives for early math
• Math Analogies - analogy problems with numbers and figures
• Math Detective - standards based story problems
• Math Computation and Word Problems
• Mathematical Reasoning - complete math curriculum
• Patterns in Mathematics
• Puzzle It! - middle school math and logic puzzles
• Reference
• Scratch Your Brain - problem solving
• Singapore Math
• Review and homework

WISC (Wechsler IQ Test)
• About the WISC
• Subtests and Suggestions
• Choosing the Correct Level
• 6 - 7 years old
• 8 - 9 years old
• Testing for entry to 3rd or 4th grade
• 10 - 11 years old
• 12 - 13 years old
• 14 - 16 years old
• Test Prep Bundles for the WISC® Assessment from The Critical Thinking Company
> Test Prep Guide for the WISC® Assessment from The Critical Thinking Company

Skill Retention/Summer

Learning Differences and 2E
• Visual-Motor Work Out
• Study and Test Taking Strategies
• Visual Processing

Babies and Toddlers

Preschool and Pre-K

Early Elementary

Glossary of Terms