 | 5000 Essential Knowledge Questions Across the Curriculum
Grades: 6th - 12th+
Teaches and tests essential knowledge in literature, language, math, science, history, geography, and the arts necessary for superior achievement in school and beyond. Children analyze and answer beginning, intermediate, and advanced scholastic trivia questions. As they check their answers, children are provided with more details about each answer for additional learning and reinforcement. Academic Challenge Cup
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 | 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. Can You Find Me? PreK
Can You Find Me? K-1
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 | Answer the math word problems and complete and color the pictures!
Grades: 1st - 3rd
Develops a wide variety of math, reading, visual, and spatial reasoning skills. Children solve an engaging word problem that focuses on reading comprehension and mathematical reasoning before completing and coloring an animal picture.
Ideal to motivate your child to improve math skills. These quick, boredom-busting activities can be used in the classroom, after school, at home, and on trips to stimulate developing minds. Complete the Picture Math Book 1
Complete the Picture Math Book 2
Complete the Picture Math Book 3
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 | Problem Solving, Reasoning, Logic, and Arguments
Grades: 7th - 12th
Teaches students to think logically. Students learn to identify valid and invalid claimsand aguments, sufficient and insufficient efidence, fact and opinion, generalizations, emotional arguments, inferences, deductions, and more. Instruction/Answer guides sold separately.
Recommended by The Well Trained Mind Critical Thinking Book One
Critical Thinking Book One Instruction/Answer Guide
Critical Thinking Book Two
Critical Thinking Book Two Instruction/Answer Guide
Critical Thinking 4-Book Set
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 | A fun way to strengthen students' spelling, vocabulary, and reading!
Grades PreK - 12th
Develops students' fluency and understanding of word meanings and associations as it improves their spelling vocabulary, reading, and problem-solving skills. Students carefully read through clues in each riddle, analyzing connections within and between clues to figure out what is being described. Solving the riddles requires students to evaluate homonyms, synonyms, homophones, prefixes, roots, and suffixes in order to deduce and spell whole and partial word answers.
Dr. DooRiddles 5-Book Set
Dr. DooRiddles 6-Book Set
Dr. DooRiddles 8-Book Set
Dr. DooRiddles A1
Dr. DooRiddles A2
Dr. DooRiddles A3
Spelling DooRiddles A1
Dr. DooRiddles B1
Dr. DooRiddles B2
Spelling DooRiddles B1
Dr. DooRiddles C1
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 | Teaches students to overcome study challenges and become successful learners.
Grades: 7 - 12+
A self-management approach to study skills, this book develops methods of effective organization, time management, comprehension and memory skills, and test-taking strategies.
"Recommended!" - The Well Trained Mind Learning on Purpose
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 | Grades: K - 5
Understanding analogies and the ability to reason analogically (reasoning used to identify, evaluate, and solve an analogy) are important problem-solving skills. Problem-solving is an essential part of mathematical development. Analogies teach children to break problems down into their component parts, making it easier to recognize familiar formats that enable students to produce solutions. Math Analogies Beginning
Math Analogies Book 1
Math Analogies Book 2
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 | Turns your child into a super math word problem solver!
Whole Numbers & Fractions • Decimals & Percents • Mixed Concepts: Whole Numbers–Percents
Grades: 4 - 10
Helps your child conquer the “dreaded” math word problem by teaching them how and when to apply the math operations they know to real-life situations. Developmentally sequenced and arranged. Each problem requires its own thinking/problem solving approach rather than applying the same solution process to entire groups of problems. Math Word Problems Level A
Math Word Problems Level B
Math Word Problems Level C
Math Word Problems 3-Book Set
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 | Improve visual perception and memory skills
Grades: K - 12th+
Enhance visual perception and memory for reading and math! This is an easy-to-use but very powerful program for developing and testing visual memory skills. Memory Challenge Software
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 | Solving Mysteries Through Critical Questioning
Grades: 4th - 12th
Children learn to think beyond the literal meaning! Funny mysteries develop inferential and deductive reasoning for more effective reading, listening, and logical thinking. Encourages creative brainstorming and flexible thinking. Red Herring Mysteries Level 1
Red Herring Mysteries Level 2
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 | Teaches standards-based science as it develops reading, writing, and critical thinking skills!
Grades: 3rd - 6th
Uses topics and skills drawn from national science standards to prepare children for more advanced science courses and new assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in science.
Students read lessons that include a charts, tables, and graphs, then they answer critical thinking questions to improve understanding of science concepts and develop reading comprehension, and inferential and deductive thinking skills. Science Detective Beginning
Science Detective Beginning Software
Science Detective A1
Science Detective A1 Software
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 | Discover Scientific Process through Problem Solving
Grades: 7th - 12th+
Sciencewise uses experiments with surprising outcomes and hands-on activities that require critical thinking to teach scientific analysis and problem solving. Demonstrations capture students' interest by revealing surprising outcomes. Each experiment is followed by easy-to-use questions that reinforce scientific thinking. Creative Challenges presents students with scientific problems to solve, allowing them to practice and apply the science process skills learned. Sciencewise Book 3
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 | Effectively teaches and assesses students' understanding of life science contents and vocabulary!
Books-on-CD
Grades: 4th - 12th+
Engaging concept maps teach life science and help easily evaluate students' knowledge of key life science connections. Concept Files provide the necessary information to complete the lessons. Students carefully analyze and synthesize information, then fill in the relationships on the concept maps. Thinking Connections A1 (Book-on-CD)
Thinking Connections B1 (Book-on-CD)
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 | Critical Thinking applied to real-life moral dilemmas
Grades: 2nd - 12th+
Gives students the opportunity to apply their moral values to real-life moral dilemmas. These problems are wonderful for family or class discussion problems that develop critical thinking skills and explore character-building issues.
Concepts/Skills: Self-Reflection, Reading Comprehension, Organized Analysis, Compare and Contrast, Identification of Assumptions, Respect, Empathy, Responsibility, Perserverance, Courage, Integrity, Self-Discipline What Would You Do? Book 1
What Would You Do? Book 2
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 | Grades: 6th - 12th
With You Decide! court is in session. The honorable “judges,” your students, will be asked to rule on 75 actual U.S. Supreme Court cases based on the first eight amendments to the Constitution. Students will sharpen their critical thinking skills and their legal and historical knowledge as they analyze the amendments, discover their origins, and rule on actual cases presented before the U.S. Supreme Court. You Decide! Student Text
You Decide! Instruction Answer Guide
You Decide! Sample 1
You Decide! Sample 2
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