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Language Arts & Spelling

Brain Building Fun Language Arts!

Our Brain Building Fun language arts products develop the reading and literary analysis skills necessary for exceptional reading comprehension. In just 10-20 minutes a day, our products will build your child's brain, help him qualify for gifted programs, improve her grades, raise his test scores, and prepare her for life with unmatched thinking and reasoning skills.

For example, the stories found in Reading Detective teach your child to identify and evaluate evidence found in inferences, cause and effect relationships, context clues, and more. Reading Detective improves children's performance on state reading assessment tests and cognitive exams.

Editor in Chief teaches children real-life editing skills for superior writing, beter grades, and higher test scores. This series uses critical thinking, not drill and practice, to sharpen Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling, and Capitalization skills.

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Grammar

First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind by Jessie Wise
Editor in Chief Series
Language Mechanic
Language Smarts Level B (Grade 1) - Color
Language Smarts Level B (Grade 1) - Black & White (Reproducible)
Language Smarts Level C (Grade 2) - Color
Language Smarts Level C (Grade 2) - Black & White (Reproducible)
Language Smarts Book D (Color) - Grade 3

Phonics

Alphabet and Number Puzzles with Lessons
Language Smarts (Core Curriculum)
Horizons Phonics & Reading
Explode The Code Workbooks 1-8

Punctuation

Editor in Chief Series
Language Mechanic
Language Smarts (Core Curriculum)
Punctuation Puzzlers

Reading Comprehension

Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts
Dr. DooRiddles & Spelling DooRiddles
Novel Thinking Lesson Guides
Reading Detective Series
Revenge of the Riddle Spiders Software
Think Analogies Books & Software

Spelling

Analogies and Idioms - Power Practice
Dr. DooRiddles & Spelling DooRiddles
Natural Speller (Core Curriculum)
Revenge of the Riddle Spiders Software
Sequential Spelling (Core Curriculum)
Word Roots

Vocabulary

Analogies and Idioms - Power Practice
Dr. DooRiddles & Spelling DooRiddles
Revenge of the Riddle Spiders Software
Teaching Signs for Baby Minds
Think Analogies Books & Software
Vocabulary Smarts
Word Roots
Wordly Wise 3000
Ridgewood Analogies

Writing Skills and Creative Writing

Any Child Can Write: A Guide to Enhancing Your Child's Elementary Education
Critical Thinking Activities to Improve Writing Skills
Editor in Chief Series
Language Mechanic
Language Smarts (Core Curriculum)
Novel Thinking Lesson Guides

Any Child Can Write: A Guide to Enhancing Your Child's Elementary Education

Improve your child's creative writing skills.
Grades: Preschool to 12th
This book will motivate, even inspire, parents to supplement and enrich their children's learning experiences. Any Child Can Write outlines a home program that encourages creative writing. Word games, sentence crafts, autobiography, poetry, narration, painting word pictures, letter writing, and preparing school reports are covered.

$17.95

Alphabet and Number Puzzles with Lessons

with Lesson Guide
Ages: 2 - 4
Teaches children letter names, shape recognition, and letter sounds. This durable puzzle set consitsts of three wooden puzzle boards (lower case letters, uppercase letters, and numbers 0-9) as well as lesson guide. Perfect for any toddler or preschool child!

$34.99

Critical Thinking Activities to Improve Writing Skills

Grades: 3 - 12+
Critical Thinking Activities to Improve Writing Skills encourages students to think, choose their words carefully, and produce concise, accurate, detailed, and sometimes persuasive writing. For higher grades, better test scores, and effective everyday communications, few skills are more important than clear, concise writing.

Arguments
Descriptive Mysteries
Whatcha-Macallits
Where-Abouts

Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts

Great for Test Preparation!
Grades: 5-12+
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.

$18.99

Dr. DooRiddles & Spelling DooRiddles

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

Editor in Chief Series

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

Editor in Chief Beginning
Editor in Chief A1
Editor in Chief A2
Editor in Chief 3-Book Set
Editor in Chief B1
Editor in Chief B2
Editor in Chief C1
Editor in Chief C2
Editor in Chief 4-Book Set
Editor In Chief Beginning Software CD
Editor in Chief A1 Software CD
Editor in Chief A2 Software
Editor in Chief Software 3-CD Set
Editor in Chief B1 Software CD
Editor in Chief B2 Software CD
Editor in Chief C1 Software CD
Editor in Chief C2 Software CD
Editor in Chief Software 4-CD Set

First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind by Jessie Wise

Grades: Kindergarten to 3rd
A two-year beginning grammar and writing course. Parents can assure their child's success in language arts with this simple-to-use, scripted guide. First Language Lessons uses picture study and other classical techniques to develop the child's language ability in those first two all-important years of study. First Language Lessons is a complete beginning grammar and writing text that covers a wide range of topics including parts of speech, forming complete sentences, beginning writing, storytelling, and narration skills. The scripted exercises also train a child's ear so that he uses correct grammar

$18.95

Language Mechanic

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.

$21.99

Language Smarts (Core Curriculum)

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.

Language Smarts Level B (Grade 1) - Color
Language Smarts Level B (Grade 1) - Black & White (Reproducible)
Language Smarts Level C (Grade 2) - Color
Language Smarts Level C (Grade 2) - Black & White (Reproducible)
Language Smarts Book D (Color) - Grade 3

Novel Thinking Lesson Guides

Novel Thinking - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Novel Thinking - Charlotte's Web
Novel Thinking - Shiloh
Novel Thinking - Abraham Lincoln: In Their Own Words
Novel Thinking - Abraham Lincoln
Novel Thinking - George's Marcelous Medicine

Punctuation Puzzlers

Fast, fun grammar, punctuation, and reading comprehension activities students really enjoy!
Grades: 3 - 8
Subject: Language Arts

Punctuation Puzzler 6-Book Set
Punctuation Puzzler: Commas & More 3-CD Set
Punctuation Puzzler: Commas & More A1
Punctuation Puzzler: Run-Ons A1
Punctuation Puzzler: Commas & More B1
Punctuation Puzzler: Run-Ons B1
Punctuation Puzzler: Commas & More C1
Punctuation Puzzler: Run-Ons C1
Punctuation Puzzler Software: Commas & More A1
Punctuation Puzzler Software: Commas & More B1
Punctuation Puzzler Software: Commas & More C1

Reading Detective Series

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!

Reading Detective Beginning
Reading Detective A1
Reading Detective B1
Reading Detective Rx
Reading Detective 3-Book Set
Reading Detective Beginning Software CD
Reading Detective A1 Software CD
Reading Detective B1 Software CD
Reading Detective Software 3-CD Set

Revenge of the Riddle Spiders Software

Associative vocabulary and spelling activities in a fun game of chase and escape!
Grades: K - 12+
A fun way to sharpen students associative reasoning, language skills, spelling, vocabulary, word use, and understanding of multiple word meanings!

Revenge of the Riddle Spiders A1 Software
Revenge of the Riddle Spiders B1 Software
Revenge of the Riddle Spiders C1 Software
Revenge of the Riddle Spiders 3 CD Set

Sequential Spelling (Core Curriculum)

Get immediate results!
Ages 8 - 88
Minimize study time and reduce test-taking anxiety! Sequential Spelling teaches students to recognize patterns of spelling based on the rules of the English language, but without the complicated explanations.
Don McCabe, the author, struggled with dyslexia. He created Sequential Spelling to teach dyslexics how to spell and read through a multi-sensory approach (audio, visual, kinetic, oral). All children can benefit from Sequential Spelling with just 10 minutes a day!
The sequences are not based on grade level curriculum; they are based on building from easy words to advanced words. For example: all, tall, stall, install, installment, installation. All students start with Level 1. With Sequential Spelling, the children are not required to study anything, and yet, they remember the patterns used to spell the words – even after the test!

Teaching Signs for Baby Minds

American Sign Language (ASL)
Boost I.Q. scores!
6 months - age 4
Teach your baby or toddler to communicate before he or she can speak! Learning signs can also have a profound effect on your child’s developing mind. Researchers have found a 12-point difference in the IQ scores of babies who sign and those who do not. This is a huge difference in IQ scores! Preschoolers who learn to sign also test significantly higher on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test.

Teaching Signs for Baby Minds DVD 1 - Everyday Signs
Teaching Signs for Baby Minds DVD 2 - Concepts & Combinations
Teaching Signs for Baby Minds DVD 3 - Teaches Sign Alphabet and Vocabulary
Teaching Signs for Baby Minds 3-DVD Set

Think Analogies Books & Software

Builds vocabulary and reading comprehension skills! Test Preparation.
Grades: 3rd - 12th
Engaging activities help students develop razor-sharp analogy, vocabulary, and analysis skills to improve reading comprehension, academic performance and test results. Clearly, easily, and effectively teaches students how to analyze and classify analogies by relationship, category, and structure. Test Preparation: Prepares students for higher-level vocabulary and reading challenges and for state and other standardized educational assessments.

Think Analogies A1
Think Analogies B1
Think Analogy Puzzles Software A1
Think Analogy Puzzles Software B1
Think Analogy Puzzles Software C1
Think Analogy Puzzles Software 3-CD Set

Word Roots

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!

Word Roots Beginning
Word Roots A1
Word Roots A2
Word Roots B1
Word Roots B2
Word Roots 4-Book Set
Word Roots 5-Book Set
Word Roots A1 Software
Word Roots A2 Software
Word Roots B1 Software
Word Roots 3-CD Software Set

Wordly Wise 3000

Explicit, systematic, and sequential vocabulary development
Grades K-12
Greek and Latin Roots exercises to improve vocabulary, reading comprehension, and test preparation.

Wordly Wise 3000 Grades K-1
Wordly Wise 3000 Grades 2-5

Handwriting Without Tears

Printing Power - Second Grade

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