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  • The Critical Thinking Mind Benders Book 3 School Workbook

    Anita Harnadek, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking Co., Aug. 16, 2011)
    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.
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  • Sentence Diagramming Level 1 - Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences

    Angela Carter, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking Co., March 15, 2016)
    This 80-page book teaches students how to diagram sentences so they see the underlying structure of English grammar. Diagramming sentences gives many visual and logical learners an alternative way to learn grammar. Students who understand the finer points of English grammar will apply this knowledge to their writing. For many students, boring old grammar lessons become understandable and fun-even kids who are traditionally more math minded begin to enjoy English lessons.Each lesson provides plenty of practice diagramming. After completing all the lessons, there is a review where students diagram sentences using all the grammar rules they have learned. The grammar lessons in Sentence Diagramming Level 1 are:Compound Predicates With Direct Objects Imperative Sentence (Commands) Interrogative Sentences (Questions) Indirect Object Adverbial Nouns Interjections and Direct Address Intensifiers and Adverbs Modifying Adjectives, Adverbs, and Adverbial Nouns Linking Verbs and Predicate Adjectives Appositives Correlative Conjunctions Prepositional Phrases Compound Sentences
  • The Critical Thinking Word Roots Level 1 School Workbook

    Cherie A. Plant, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking Co., Aug. 16, 2015)
    Students learn the meaning and spelling of roots, prefixes, and suffixes commonly used in English. Learning these word elements dramatically improves spelling and the ability to decode unfamiliar words. The activities focus on using these words in context to help students incorporate each word into their vocabulary and retain the correct spelling. There are periodic reviews to make sure students retain what is taught in the lessons. Word Roots books will add hundreds of words to your students' vocabulary and greater depth to their thinking and writing.
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  • Balance Math and More Level 1 - Sharpening Critical Thinking, Computational, and Algebraic Reasoning Skills

    Robert Femiano, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking Co., Aug. 16, 2010)
    This fun, mind-building 48-page book is made up of three types of puzzles that focus on addition and subtraction of whole numbers. These puzzles also sharpen students' critical thinking, computational, and algebraic reasoning skills. 1. Balance Math Puzzles require students to analyze balances to deduce the missing value. 2. Inside-Out Math Puzzles require students to reverse their thinking, using the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction and multiplication and division to solve the puzzle. 3. Tic Tac Math Puzzles require students to figure out the correct order to complete all rows, columns, and diagonals.This book's spiraling difficulty is designed to scaffold a student's conceptual understanding of the targeted operations. Teaching suggestions and detailed solutions are included in each book. Try one of these intriguing puzzles–and then try to stop!
  • Building Writing Skills Level 2 - Using a 5-Step Writing Process to Teach Writing

    Noreen Conte, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking Co., March 15, 2017)
    This highly-effective 104-page book teaches narrative (personal and story), opinion, and informative/explanatory writing as a 5-step process. The 5-step process is made up of Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing. The step-by-step lessons use examples and easy-to-understand concept maps that teach brainstorming, planning, editing, and revising. Each lesson is followed by practice that includes a simple, time-saving scoring rubric.
  • Mathematical Reasoning Level G

    Carolyn Anderson, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking Co., Aug. 16, 2013)
    Forget boring math lessons and dreaded drill sheets. This fun, colorful 448-page book uses engaging lessons with easy-to-follow explanations, examples, and charts to make sixth grade mathematical concepts easy to understand. It can be used as a textbook or a comprehensive workbook with your textbook to teach the math skills and concepts that students are expected to know in sixth grade–and several concepts normally taught in seventh grade. This book emphasizes problem-solving and computation to build for success in higher-level math and math assessments.Every lesson is followed with a variety of fun, colorful activities to ensure concept mastery. The lessons and activities spiral slowly, allowing students to become comfortable with concepts, but also challenging them to continue building their problem-solving skills. This book teaches more than mathematical concepts; it teaches mathematical reasoning, so students learn to devise different strategies to solve a wide variety of math problems. It is written to the standards of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
  • Balance Benders™ Beginning

    Robert Femiano, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking, Aug. 16, 2010)
    Move over Sudoku, here come balance Benders! you can use these books as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Children develop deductive thinking and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are more fun and addictive than Sudoku puzzles! children must analyze each balance to identify the clues, and then synthesize the information to solve the puzzle. Try one -- and then try to stop!
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  • The Critical Thinking Word Roots Level 2 School Workbook

    Cherie A. Plant, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking Co., Aug. 16, 2015)
    Students learn the meaning and spelling of roots, prefixes, and suffixes commonly used in English. Learning these word elements dramatically improves spelling and the ability to decode unfamiliar words. The activities focus on using these words in context to help students incorporate each word into their vocabulary and retain the correct spelling. There are periodic reviews to make sure students retain what is taught in the lessons. Word Roots books will add hundreds of words to your students' vocabulary and greater depth to their thinking and writing.
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  • Sentence Diagramming Level 2 - Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences

    Angela Carter, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking Co., March 15, 2017)
    This 80-page book teaches students how to diagram sentences so they see the underlying structure of English grammar. Diagramming sentences gives many visual and logical learners an alternative way to learn grammar. Students who understand the finer points of English grammar will apply this knowledge to their writing. For many students, boring old grammar lessons become understandable and fun-even kids who are traditionally more math minded begin to enjoy English lessons.Each lesson provides plenty of practice diagramming. After completing all the lessons, there is a review where students diagram sentences using all the grammar rules they have learned. The grammar lessons in Sentence Diagramming Level 2 are: Appositive Phrases Objective Complement Gerunds and Gerund Phrases Participles Participial Phrases Infinitive Used as Nouns Infinitive Phrases Noun Clauses Adjective Clauses Adverbial Clauses Comparisons Compound-Complex Sentences
  • Balance Benders,™ Level 1

    Robert Femiano, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking, Jan. 1, 2010)
    Move over Sudoku, here come balance Benders! you can use these books as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Children develop deductive thinking and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are more fun and addictive than Sudoku puzzles! children must analyze each balance to identify the clues, and then synthesize the information to solve the puzzle. Try one -- and then try to stop!
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  • Balance Math & More! Level 3

    Robert Femiano, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking Co., Aug. 16, 2010)
    This fun, mind-building 48-page book is made up of three types of puzzles that focus on addition and subtraction of whole numbers. These puzzles also sharpen students' critical thinking, computational, and algebraic reasoning skills. 1. Balance Math Puzzles require students to analyze balances to deduce the missing value. 2. Inside-Out Math Puzzles require students to reverse their thinking, using the inverse relationships between addition and subtraction and multiplication and division to solve the puzzle. 3. Tic Tac Math Puzzles require students to figure out the correct order to complete all rows, columns, and diagonals.This book's spiraling difficulty is designed to scaffold a student's conceptual understanding of the targeted operations. Teaching suggestions and detailed solutions are included in each book. Try one of these intriguing puzzles–and then try to stop!
  • Inference Jones, Level 1

    Robert E. Owen, Children's Books - Educational

    Paperback (The Critical Thinking, Aug. 16, 2012)
    This 48-page book provides short, fun, and easy-to-use reading comprehension activities that improve critical reading and higher-order thinking skills. The activities focus on developing the student's ability to draw inferences from written text as they identify and evaluate evidence. Questions following all stories teach students to evaluate details that at first seemed insignificant but are actually meaningful! These activities develop a depth of analysis that guarantees superior inferential and reading comprehension skills for top grades and higher test scores!Research shows inferential reasoning is a prerequisite component to superior reading comprehension. The National Foundation for Educational Research concluded that "the ability to draw inferences predetermines reading skills: that is, poor inferential reasoning causes poor comprehension and not vice versa." We all make inferences in our daily lives (e.g. we naturally think a child is happy because we see them laughing). But how does this ability apply to written communication? When we read a written passage, we're actually reading a representation of the author's thoughts and ideas, because the written word does not convey a meaning in and of itself. Readers must construct the meaning through interpretation. The reader's interpretation is the result of inferential analysis which includes drawing from personal knowledge and experiences, social values, and cultural conventions. The interpretation connects a meaning to the words, providing the reader with an understanding of the character's actions, circumstances, or events in the story.Inference Jones Level 1 includes an engaging mix of fiction and nonfiction stories to inform and entertain students as they learn and analyze. It has a readability level appropriate for Grades 5-6 but can also be used as a remedial resource for older students (Grades 7-12+).