Spark discussions on the first day and beyond. Features 36 engaging questions about student experiences and perspectives, including: What is the most important thing you own? What do you want to be when you are older? What was the strangest dream you have had? Builds oral language, social and listening skills. Makes a great addition to character development activities. Provides direction for brainstorming before writing. Supports fluency and oral language development in ELLs and students with speech impairments. Includes Activity Guide. Each in this set of 6 soft foam cubes measures 1.625.

• Get conversation rolling in your classroom with a toss of these fun cubes!
• Cubes are quiet when rolled, making them perfect for classroom use
• Excellent for ages 6 and up

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.

• Deductive thinking puzzles that develop logic, reading comprehension and mental organization skills
• Step-by-step instructions and detailed answers are included
• 48 pages
• Answer guide included

Show off your knowledge of American Trivia by answering these 150 fascinating, sometimes quirky questions about the United States. As with all WordTeasers decks, each card contains a wide range of information about the place or person discussed on the card! Sure to be a big hit among kids of all ages.

• A fun way to get students and teachers talking
• Learn about the United States with these 150 fascinating, sometimes quirky questions
• Laughing and learning together without their cell phones!
• Appeals to kids of all ages and gets them talking, laughing and learning!

Hand-held flip charts make understanding learning theories and planning lessons easy! 5 x 6 inches. Take the mystery out of Bloom's Taxonomy with Quick Flip Questions for Critical Thinking. Learn how to ask questions, lead discussions, and plan lessons geared to each level of critical thinking. This hand-held flip chart helps improve thinking skills at any age. Teachers, parents, and students alike will find this an indispensable tool for improving communication, enhancing verbal skills, developing questioning skills, facilitating report writing, and developing higher levels of thinking.

• Hand-held, spiral chart
• 5 x 6 inches
• Make understanding learning theories and planning lessons easy!

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.

• 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

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!

• Improve critical thinking skills and you're sure to improve reading comprehension, problem solving, writing skills and more
• Includes over 400 pages of step-by-step activities
• Challenge students to think using a variety of methods such as analogies, classification, drawing solutions, and more
• A terrific way to give your students the tools they need for success in school as well as in their daily lives

Can you help these three smart pigs build their houses? Can you set them up so that the pigs can play outside? If you spot the wolf can you help the pigs stay safe inside their houses? Smart Little Piggies is a perfect brain game for young children. It features 3 big puzzle pieces that are easy to hold, and kids will be intrigued by the way the pigs fit inside the houses and look through the windows. The game includes a story book with images and booklet with 48 challenges (24 with the wolf and 24 without).

• A wonderful early logic game for preschoolers
• Makes learning fun
• A familiar theme for kids
• 48 challenges
• Includes a colorful picture book

This colorful, fun 224-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests. It also teaches many academic concepts and skills taught in kindergarten and first grade.

The fun, highly-effective and engaging reasoning activities improve the vocabulary, pre-reading, pre-writing, math, logic, spatial, and auditory processing skills of preschoolers. It teaches students to use organized analysis instead of guesswork to solve problems. The book may be used as a complete critical thinking curriculum to prepare young minds for preschool academics.

Concepts include: Visual Tracking, Visual Constancy, Visual Motor Skills, Spatial Relationships, Auditory Processing, Auditory Memory, Fine Motor Skill Development, Inferential Reasoning/Prediction, Deduction, Identifying Similarities & Differences, Classifying, Identifying Sequences, Completing Analogies, Creative Problem Solving, Colors, Logical Connectives (And, Or), Lines (Straight, Curved, Straight and Curved), Open & Closed Figures, Corners, Geometric Shapes (Circle, Triangle, Rectangle, Square), Behind & In-Between, Above & Below, Measurement (Longer, Longest, Shorter, Shortest, Larger, Largest, Smaller, Smallest), Half & Whole, and Left & Right.

• 224-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests
• Sequenced in small steps
• The book uses colorful, easy-to-understand activities
• The fun, highly-effective and engaging reasoning activities improve the vocabulary, pre-reading, pre-writing, math, logic, spatial, and auditory processing skills
• 216 pages

This engaging 288-page book develops critical thinking skills necessary for success in reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and standardized tests in Grades 7-12+. The Building Thinking Skills® series is the bestselling thinking skills program in the world! The engaging, highly-effective activities are developmentally sequenced. Each skill (for example, classifying) is presented in the semi-concrete figural-spatial form and in the abstract verbal form in this book's companion Building Thinking Skills® Level 3 Verbal. Students also learn important academic vocabulary, concepts, and skills as they analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words by:
• Observing, recognizing, and describing characteristics
• Distinguishing similarities and differences
• Identifying and completing sequences, classifications, and analogies

These processes help students develop superior thinking and communication skills that lead to deeper content learning in all subjects.

• Higher-Order Thinking Activities
• This exceptional series provides a solid foundation for academic excellence and success in any assessment
• The #1 selling thinking skills program in the world
• Answer guide included
• 192 pages

This colorful and engaging series improves academic performance in Reading, Writing, Math and Science and prepares students for a wide variety of cognitive tests commonly used for academic placement. The highly effective verbal and spatial reasoning activities also develop analysis skills, problem-solving, logical thinking, and visual and auditory processing skills. Students learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words.

• Colorful and engaging series improves academic performance in Reading, Writing, Math, and Science
• Prepares students for a wide variety of cognitive tests commonly used for academic placement
• Highly effective verbal and spatial reasoning activities also develop analysis skills, problem-solving, logical thinking, and visual and auditory processing skills
• Students learn to analyze relationships between objects, between words, and between objects and words