California Achievement Tests (CAT) Test Preparation

Escape from boring language arts drill!
(Core Curriculum)
Grades: 1st - 2nd
These fun, mind-building books teach standards-based language arts and develop critical thinking skills. Empower your child's mind as vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, reading and writing skills improve.

Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Reading Comprehension
Grades: 3rd - 12th
Uses Standards-based higher-order thinking activities to develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills required for exceptional reading comprehension.
Avaliable in books or software!

Uses logic and humor to teach grammar, punctuation, spelling, and vocabulary!
Grades: 4th - 7th
Effective, comprehensive program that uses fun examples and logical reasons to eliminate the confusion students often feel while learning the rules of language mechanics. Each activity demonstrates and reinforces why following the logical rule is important. Lessons begin with a "grabber” — a humorous miscommunication that results when a rule is broken. Examples are followed by an explanation of the specific rule, the logic behind it, then guided and independent practice exercises.

Empowers students with unlimited vocabulary, prepares for testing and higher education!
Grades: 2nd - 12th+
Effective activities teach Latin and Greek prefixes, roots, and suffixes - the building blocks of English. Improves spelling, vocabulary, and reading comprehension.
Available in books or software!

Building Thinking Skills with Riddles - Associative Reasoning
Grades: PreK - 1st
Develops skills in reading readiness, science, math, and social studies using five basic thinking skills: similarities and differences, sequences, classifications, analogies, and logic. Content is based on state standards. 112 full-color pages per book.

Higher Order Thinking Standards-Based Math
Grades: 3rd - 8th
Engaging story problems use topic and skills drawn from national math standards. Prepare students for more advanced math courses and assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math.
Available in Books and Software.

Prepare Children for State & National Assessment Tests, Cognitive Abilities Tests, & Gifted (GATE) Exams
Grades: PreK - 12th+
The #1-selling thinking skills program in the world! Highly effective verbal and nonverbal reasoning activities improve students' vocabulary, reading, writing, math, logic, and figural spatial skills as well as their visual, motor, analytical reasoning, and auditory processing skills. (Books & Software)
Test preparation - guarantees top performance on assessment tests and GATE exams!
Multiple award winner, including Creative Child Seal of Excellence award and the Cathy Duffy Top 100

Real-life editing skills for superior writing and top test scores!
Grades 3rd - 12th
Students become world-class editors as they identify and correct errors in grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and usage in short, high-interest stories. Editor in Chief's effective methods teach students to carefully analyze and edit stories that contain errors in writing mechanics and story details.
Available in books or software!
1st Place Grammar Award from Practical Homeschooling

Clever Math Ticklers
Grades: 2nd-12th
Meeting math standards and developing problem solving skills has never been such fun! These fun activities boost students' math competence and prepare them for standardized tests and assessments.