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Language Arts & Spelling

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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Editor in Chief Series Books & Software (Grades 2-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind by Jessie Wise
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 (Grade 3) - Color
Handwriting Without Tears: A Complete Handwriting Curriculum for All Children
Alphabet Letter and Number Puzzles with Lesson Guide (Ages 2 and Up)
Apples: Daily Phonics Drills for Secondary Students
Apples 2: Daily Phonics Drills for Secondary Students
Language Smarts (Core Curriculum)
Horizons Phonics & Reading
Explode The Code Workbooks 1-8
Editor in Chief Series Books & Software (Grades 2-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
Language Mechanic
Language Smarts (Core Curriculum)
Punctuation Puzzlers
Daily Mind Builders: Language Arts
Dr. DooRiddles Series (Associative Reasoning) -> ON SALE NOW
Novel Thinking Lesson Guides (Gr. 3-9)
Reading Detective Series (Grades 3-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
Revenge of the Riddle Spiders Software
Think Analogies Books & Think Analogy Puzzles Software -> ON SALE NOW
Analogies and Idioms - Power Practice
Apples: Daily Phonics Drills for Secondary Students
Apples 2: Daily Phonics Drills for Secondary Students
Dr. DooRiddles Series (Associative Reasoning) -> ON SALE NOW
Natural Speller (Core Curriculum)
Revenge of the Riddle Spiders Software
Sequential Spelling (Core Curriculum)
Word Roots
Analogies and Idioms - Power Practice
Dr. DooRiddles Series (Associative Reasoning) -> ON SALE NOW
Revenge of the Riddle Spiders Software
Teaching Signs for Baby Minds
Think Analogies Books & Think Analogy Puzzles Software -> ON SALE NOW
Vocabulary Cartoons SAT Word Power (Mnemonics)
Vocabulary Cartoons II SAT Word Power (Mnemonics)
Vocabulary Smarts -> ON SALE
Word Roots
Wordly Wise 3000
Ridgewood Analogies
Any Child Can Write: A Guide to Enhancing Your Child's Elementary Education
Critical Thinking Activities to Improve Writing Skills
Editor in Chief Series Books & Software (Grades 2-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
Language Mechanic
Language Smarts (Core Curriculum)
Novel Thinking Lesson Guides (Gr. 3-9)
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
S-712223
Alphabet Letter and Number Puzzles with Lesson Guide (Ages 2 and Up)
with Lesson Guide
Ages: 2 years and up
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
01901UJO
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.
Descriptive Mysteries
Whatcha-Macallits
Where-Abouts
Arguments
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
04601BBP
Dr. DooRiddles Series (Associative Reasoning) -> ON SALE NOW
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 A1 -> NOW ON SALE
Dr. DooRiddles A2 -> NOW ON SALE
Dr. DooRiddles A3 -> NOW ON SALE
Spelling DooRiddles A1 -> NOW ON SALE
Dr. DooRiddles B1 -> NOW ON SALE
Dr. DooRiddles B2 -> NOW ON SALE
Spelling DooRiddles B1 -> NOW ON SALE
Dr. DooRiddles C1 -> NOW ON SALE
Dr. DooRiddles 5-Book Set
Dr. DooRiddles 6-Book Set
Dr. DooRiddles 8-Book Set
Editor in Chief Series Books & Software (Grades 2-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
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 1 (Grades 2-3) -> NEW
Editor in Chief Beginning 2 (Grades 2-4) -> ON SALE NOW
Editor In Chief Beginning Software CD
Editor in Chief 3-Book Set
Editor in Chief A1 -> ON SALE NOW
Editor in Chief A1 Software CD
Editor in Chief A2 -> ON SALE NOW
Editor in Chief A2 Software
Editor in Chief Software 3-CD Set
Editor in Chief Software 4-CD Set
Editor in Chief B1 -> ON SALE NOW
Editor in Chief B1 Software CD
Editor in Chief B2 -> ON SALE NOW
Editor in Chief B2 Software CD
Editor in Chief C1 -> ON SALE NOW
Editor in Chief C1 Software CD
Editor in Chief C2 -> ON SALE NOW
Editor in Chief C2 Software CD
Editor in Chief 4-Book 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
PHP-137379
Handwriting Without Tears: A Complete Handwriting Curriculum for All ChildrenPrinting Power - Second Grade - Handwriting Without Tears
Writing Notebook (48 pages)
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
01801BBP
Language Smarts (Core Curriculum)
Escape from boring language arts drill!
(Core Curriculum)
Grades: 1st - 3rd
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 (Grade 3) - Color
Novel Thinking Lesson Guides (Gr. 3-9)
Grades: 3-9
Subject: Language Arts
Each lesson guide helps children actively engage in the reading process by focusing on those skills that lead to better comprehension, higher test scores, and a greater love of reading. The engaging chapter-by-chapter activities focus on true comprehension - not just word searches that measure surface comprehension.
Novel Thinking Lesson Guide - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Novel Thinking Lesson Guide - Shiloh
Novel Thinking Lesson Guide - Abraham Lincoln: In Their Own Words
Novel Thinking Lesson Guide - Charlotte's Web
Novel Thinking Lesson Guide - 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 (Grades 3-12+) -> ON SALE NOW
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 -> ON SALE NOW
Reading Detective A1 -> ON SALE NOW
Reading Detective B1 -> ON SALE NOW
Reading Detective Rx -> ON SALE NOW
Reading Detective 3-Book Set
Reading Detective Beginning Software CD -> ON SALE NOW
Reading Detective A1 Software CD -> ON SALE NOW
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!
Sequential Spelling Volume 1 & Student Response Book Set
Sequential Spelling Volume 2 & Student Response Book Set
Sequential Spelling Volume 3 & Student Response Book Set
Sequential Spelling Volume 4 & Student Response Book Set
Sequential Spelling Volume 5 & Student Response Book Set
Sequential Spelling Volume 6 & Student Response Book Set
Sequential Spelling Volume 7 & Student Response Book Set
Sequential Spelling Volumes 1-7 and 7 Student Response Books
Student Response Book
Sequential Spelling Volume 1
Sequential Spelling Volume 2
Sequential Spelling Volume 3
Sequential Spelling Volume 4
Sequential Spelling Volume 5
Sequential Spelling Volume 6
Sequential Spelling Volume 7
Sequential Spelling Volume 1 DVD
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 & Think Analogy Puzzles Software -> ON SALE NOW
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 -> NOW ON SALE
Think Analogies B1 -> NOW ON SALE
Think Analogy Puzzles Software A1
Think Analogy Puzzles Software B1
Think Analogy Puzzles Software C1
Think Analogy Puzzles Software 3-CD Set
Vocabulary Cartoons, Elementary Edition - Mnemonics (Grades: 3rd-6th)
Grades: 3rd - 6th
Makes vocabulary fun with brain-friendly mnemonics. Proven in school tests: Students learn 72% more words with 90% retention. Students learn hundreds of vocabulary words faster and easier with powerful rhyming and visual mnemonics.
$12.95
Vocabulary Cartoons, Elementary Edition - Mnemonics (Grades: 3rd-6th) 0965242277
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

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