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#13104 MIND BENDERS LEVEL 3
$ 12.40
Mind Benders®, our best-selling deductive thinking puzzles, develop logic, reading comprehension, and mental organizational skills that are vital to achieving high grades and top test scores in all subjects. They're also great for developing real-life, problem-solving skills.
Methods
Your students will learn to carefully analyze each Mind Benders® puzzle and its clues, identifying logical associations between people, places, and things. The key is to start with the most obvious associations, then deduce less obvious associations until everything finally fits together.
Teaching Support
Includes step-by-step instructions and detailed answers. Book levels spiral in difficulty within grade range. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13108 DAILY MIND BUILDERS LANGUAGE ARTS GR 5-12
$ 19.20
In addition to waking up sleepy brains for the day's lessons, these short, fun daily activity pages develop the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill assessed on standardized reading tests. This comprehension skill usually determines a child's reading score--and every Daily Mind Builders™ page develops this skill.
Each daily activity page includes two puzzles. The first puzzle is a short, true mystery. Its solution requires careful reading, inferential reasoning, and deductive thinking. The second puzzle involves a process of elimination involving the meanings of words or relationships between words. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13109 DAILY MIND BUILDERS SCIENCE GR 5-12
$ 19.20
In addition to waking up sleepy brains for the day's lessons, these short, fun daily activity pages develop the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill assessed on standardized reading tests. This comprehension skill usually determines a child's reading score--and every Daily Mind Builders™ page develops this skill.
Each daily activity page includes two puzzles. The first puzzle is a short, true mystery. Its solution requires careful reading, inferential reasoning, and deductive thinking. The second puzzle involves a process of elimination involving the meanings of words or relationships between words. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13110 DAILY MIND BUILDERS SOCIAL STUDIES GR 5-12
$ 19.20
In addition to waking up sleepy brains for the day's lessons, these short, fun daily social studies activity pages develop the most important reading comprehension skill found on all standardized reading tests. Synthesizing disparate information and using the result to produce a reasonable conclusion is an essential skill assessed on standardized reading tests. This comprehension skill usually determines a child's reading score--and every Daily Mind Builders™ page develops this skill.
Each daily activity page includes two puzzles. The first puzzle is a short, true mystery. Its solution requires careful reading and inferential reasoning. The second puzzle involves a deductive thinking and the meanings of words or relationships between words. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13112 SCIENCE DETECTIVE A1
$ 25.90
Science Detective® uses topics and skills drawn from national science standards to prepare your child for more advanced science courses and new assessments that measures reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in science.
Methods
First, children read lessons that include a variety of charts, tables, and graphs. Then, they answer critical thinking questions to improve their understanding of the science concepts and develop their reading comprehension, and inferential and deductive thinking skills. Children can't just scan the story for answers -- they must carefully analyze and synthesize the information from the text and the charts, tables, and graphs to explain and support their answers.
Teaching Support
Includes teacher and student introductions, a chart of topics and key ideas to help select activities, and detailed answers. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13114 BUILDING THINKING SKILLS BEGINNING 1
$ 30.50
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 gamelike, and solvable in a short period. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13117 BUILDING THINKING SKILLS LEVEL 3 FIGURAL
$ 33.80
Building Thinking Skills® provides highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities to improve your children's vocabulary, reading, writing, math,logic, and figural-spatial skills, as well as their visual and auditory processing.This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment.
The activities are developmentally sequenced. 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.
Identify and complete sequences, classifications, and analogies.
These processes help children develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13127 READING DETECTIVE BEGINNING GR 3-4
$ 29.30
Reading Detective's standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing inferences, determining cause and effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13128 READING DETECTIVE BOOK A GR 5-6
$ 29.30
These fiction and nonfiction activities use higher-order thinking to develop reading comprehension. Students answer multiple-choice and short-response questions then provide sentence-level evidence for their answers. Each reproducible book contains goals, pretests and posttests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and answers with evidence and detailed explanations. 200-225 pages. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13129 READING DETECTIVE BOOK B GR 7-9
$ 29.30
Teaches a depth of analysis that guarantees superior reading comprehension, top grades, and top test scores! These higher-order thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills students need for exceptional reading comprehension. The activities are especially effective at helping students understand inference, cause and effect, and the use of context clues. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13130 READING DETECTIVE GR 6 AND UP
$ 28.20
These fiction and nonfiction activities use higher-order thinking to develop reading comprehension. Students answer multiple-choice and short-response questions then provide sentence-level evidence for their answers. Each reproducible book contains goals, pretests and posttests, 50 activities, a glossary of terms, and answers with evidence and detailed explanations. 200-225 pages. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#13137 MATH DETECTIVE A1 BOOK GR 5-6
$ 22.60
Math Detective Derived from state math standards, this book prepares your students for more advanced math courses and new assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math. Includes topics such as number and numeration, operations, geometry and spatial sense, probability, statistics, pre-algebra, and more. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#17394 QUICK FLIP QUESTIONS FOR THE REVISED BLOOMS TAXONOMY
$ 6.20
Understanding the critical thinking skills of the 2001 revision of Bloom's Taxonomy is easy with this handy teaching tool. Learn how to ask questions, lead discussions and plan lessons geared to each level of critical thinking: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating. 5 x 6". Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#29555 MINI MYSTERIES
$ 12.90
Reluctant readers of all ages are sure to have fun while they improve their reading sills with Mini Mysteries. Kids love a good mystery, and they won't be disappointed with the 26 "who-dunits" detective Sam Sherlock encounters in this reading comprehension-listening-thinking skills book. Question pages encourage fact-finding, analyzing, predicting outcomes, and more! 56 pages. Please note: Contains some mysteries that may be more appropriate for mature students. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#29564 CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS
$ 10.60
Improve critical thinking skills and you're sure to improve reading comprehension, problem solving, writing skills and more! This book is part of the Critical Thinking Skills Series that includes over 400 pages of step-by-step activities, carefully structured to give students the thinking and logic skills they need to master every area of learning. The delightful exercises challenge students to think using a variety of methods such as analogies, classification, drawing solutions, and more! Each book is arranged sequentially to help learners develop critical thinking in easy-to-digest steps. A terrific way to give your students the tools they need for success in school as well as in their daily lives! Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#30760 THE MINDUP CURRICULUM GR 6-8
$ 25.70
Brain-Focused Strategies for Learning
By The Hawn Foundation
Research-based and tested in dozens of classrooms
This research-based curriculum features 15 lessons that use the latest information about the brain to dramatically improve behavior and learning for all students. Each lesson offers easy strategies for helping students focus their attention, improve their self-regulation skills, build resilience to stress, and develop a positive mind-set in both school and life. The lessons fit easily into any schedule and require minimal preparation. Classroom management tips and content-area activities help you extend the benefits of MindUP throughout your day, week, and year. Includes a BIG, colorful teaching poster with fascinating facts about the brain!
160 pages + poster 8 3/8 x 10 7/8
Grades 6-8 Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#31495 COMPREHENSIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING GR 3
$ 27.40
Use these step-by-step guides to build students' comprehension and critical thinking skills as they prepare for standardized tests that feature document-based questions. Step 1 has students reading high-interest nonfiction articles from TIME For Kids authors. Step 2 has students strengthening comprehension skills by responding to follow-up questions from all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Step 3 has students studying primary source documents (such as maps, census reports, population reports, charts, and graphs) that are related to the articles. Step 4 has students demonstrating critical thinking skills by responding to questions based on these primary sources.
Teacher Resource CD includes reproducible pages of articles, primary source documents, and questions. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#31497 COMPREHENSIVE AND CRITICAL THINKING GR 5
$ 27.40
Use these step-by-step guides to build students' comprehension and critical thinking skills as they prepare for standardized tests that feature document-based questions. Step 1 has students reading high-interest nonfiction articles from TIME For Kids authors. Step 2 has students strengthening comprehension skills by responding to follow-up questions from all levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. Step 3 has students studying primary source documents (such as maps, census reports, population reports, charts, and graphs) that are related to the articles. Step 4 has students demonstrating critical thinking skills by responding to questions based on these primary sources.
Teacher Resource CD includes reproducible pages of articles, primary source documents, and questions.
Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#31621 180 DAY PROBLEM SOLVING GR K WORKBK
$ 25.20
The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade K offers daily problem solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems. This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that Kindergarten students are expected to know to advance to the next level. Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems. Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems). This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#31622 180 DAY PROBLEM SOLVING GR1 WORKBK
$ 25.20
The 180 Days of Problem Solving for Grade 1 offers daily problem solving practice geared towards developing the critical thinking skills needed to approach complex problems. This teacher-friendly resource provides thematic units that connect to a standards-based skill that first grade students are expected to know to advance to the next level. Lesson plans offer guidance and support for every day of the week, outlining strategies and activities that dig deeper than routine word problems. Each week students will use visual representations and analyze different types of word problems (including non-routine, multi-step, higher thinking problems). This comprehensive resource builds critical thinking skills and connects to national and state standards. Avg Ship time 1-2 days
#57084 CREATIVE SOLUTNS SPANISH GRADES K-1 6 BOOK SET SMITHSONIAN INFO
$ 62.40
How has lighthouse technology changed over time? How do zookeepers keep zoo animals happy and healthy? Find the answers to these questions and more with this Spanish STEAM book set devoted to finding creative solutions to real-world problems!
Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this set features hands-on STEAM challenges that are perfect for makerspaces and that guide students step-by-step through the engineering design process. Make STEAM career connections with career advice from actual Smithsonian employees working in STEAM fields. Ignite a curiosity about STEAM in kids ages 4-6 with these titles:
• Building Lighthouses
• Finding the Right Container
• Making More Doughnuts
• Making Water Safe
• Pulling Taffy
• Solving Problems at the Zoo Avg Ship time 1-2 days
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