Encourages students to practice their language mechanics and detail skills as they analyze a picture, picture caption and story for grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, spelling, usage, capitalization, or content errors and then correct the errors like real editors. Reading level: grade 6; ability level: grades 6-8; 33 activities; guide to grammar, usage, and punctuation; and answers included. Reproducible for single-classroom or single-home use.

Editor in Chief B1

Teen & Young Adult

Cheryl Block

Margaret Hockett

Linda Borla

Gaeir Dietrich

Education & Reference

The Critical Thinking

Encourages students to practice their language mechanics and detail skills as they analyze a picture, picture caption and story for grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, spelling, usage, capitalization, or content errors and then correct the errors like real editors. Reading level: grade 8; ability level: grade 8-adult; 33 activities; guide to grammar, usage, and punctuation; and answers included. Reproducible for single-classroom or single-home use.

Editor in Chief C1

Encourages students to practice their language mechanics and detail skills as they analyze a picture, picture caption and story for grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, spelling, usage, capitalization, or content errors and then correct the errors like real editors.

Editor in Chief C2

Carrie Beckwith

David, White

Smarty Pants Puzzles are fun, quick, and engaging and best of all they develop a host of critical thinking skills. Students must read the puzzle and analyze the pictures looking for evidence needed to answer the questions. This depth of analysis produces strong reading comprehension skills and teaches students how to find and evaluate evidence. These puzzles can be solved independently or used for educational fun at home or in a classroom. Skills: Inference,Deduction, Conclusion, Identification and Analysis of Evidence, Synthesis and Analysis of Comprehension

Smarty Pants Puzzles Level 1 Workbook - Fun, Quick, Engaging Ways to Learn How to Think (Grades 3-12)

Children's Books

Catherine Connors-Nelson

Activities, Crafts & Games

Move over Sudoku, here come Balance Benders! You can use these books as quick, fun logic problems or as stepping stones to success in algebra. Children develop deductive thinking and pre-algebra skills as they solve balance puzzles that are more fun and addictive than Sudoku puzzles! Children must analyze each balance to identify the clues, and then synthesize the information to solve the puzzle. Try one -- and then try to stop!

Balance Benders Level 2 Workbook, Logic and Algebraic Reasoning Puzzles (Grades 6-12)

Robert Femiano

Editor in Chief Beginning 1 improves students' grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and attention to detail using a standards-based thinking approach rather than drill and practice. This effective method teaches students to carefully analyze and edit stories. This book includes 16 lessons in grammar and mechanics. Students identify and circle errors in each story and write their correction. The grammatical and mechanical errors in the paragraphs are based on general instructional guidelines for specific grade levels; the content level, however, is ungraded, allowing usage of these materials at many instructional levels. Writing styles and content are varied to sustain interest and to broaden the students' exposure to different writing formats, such as letters, stories, and dialogue. The illustrations integrated into the context of the activities further spark student interest. The skills developed can be applied to the students' own writing. Detailed answers are also included.

Editor in Chief® Beginning 1

Cherie Plant

Stephanie Stevens

This 48-page book provides short, fun, and easy-to-use reading comprehension activities that improve critical reading and higher-order thinking skills. The activities focus on developing the student's ability to draw inferences from written text as they identify and evaluate evidence. Questions following all stories teach students to evaluate details that at first seemed insignificant but are actually meaningful! These activities develop a depth of analysis that guarantees superior inferential and reading comprehension skills for top grades and higher test scores! Research shows inferential reasoning is a prerequisite component to superior reading comprehension. The National Foundation for Educational Research concluded that "the ability to draw inferences predetermines reading skills: that is, poor inferential reasoning causes poor comprehension and not vice versa." We all make inferences in our daily lives (e.g. we naturally think a child is happy because we see them laughing). But how does this ability apply to written communication? When we read a written passage, we're actually reading a representation of the author's thoughts and ideas, because the written word does not convey a meaning in and of itself. Readers must construct the meaning through interpretation. The reader's interpretation is the result of inferential analysis which includes drawing from personal knowledge and experiences, social values, and cultural conventions. The interpretation connects a meaning to the words, providing the reader with an understanding of the character's actions, circumstances, or events in the story. Inference Jones Beginning includes zany, amusing, and clever short stories full of hints and clues to help students hone their inference skills. It has a readability level appropriate for Grades 3-4 but can also be used as a remedial resource for older students (Grades 5-12+).

Inference Jones Beginning 2 Workbook - Using Higher-Order Thinking to Improve Critical Reading and Comprehension (Grades 3-4)

Robert E. Owen

This 48-page book provides short, fun, and easy-to-use reading comprehension activities that improve critical reading and higher-order thinking skills. The activities focus on developing the student's ability to draw inferences from written text as they identify and evaluate evidence. Questions following all stories teach students to evaluate details that at first seemed insignificant but are actually meaningful! These activities develop a depth of analysis that guarantees superior inferential and reading comprehension skills for top grades and higher test scores! Research shows inferential reasoning is a prerequisite component to superior reading comprehension. The National Foundation for Educational Research concluded that "the ability to draw inferences predetermines reading skills: that is, poor inferential reasoning causes poor comprehension and not vice versa." We all make inferences in our daily lives (e.g. we naturally think a child is happy because we see them laughing). But how does this ability apply to written communication? When we read a written passage, we're actually reading a representation of the author's thoughts and ideas, because the written word does not convey a meaning in and of itself. Readers must construct the meaning through interpretation. The reader's interpretation is the result of inferential analysis which includes drawing from personal knowledge and experiences, social values, and cultural conventions. The interpretation connects a meaning to the words, providing the reader with an understanding of the character's actions, circumstances, or events in the story. Inference Jones Level 1 includes an engaging mix of fiction and nonfiction stories to inform and entertain students as they learn and analyze. It has a readability level appropriate for Grades 5-6 but can also be used as a remedial resource for older students (Grades 7-12+).

Inference Jones, Level 1

Editor in Chief Beginning 2 improves students' grammar, punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and attention to detail using a standards-based thinking approach rather than drill and practice. This effective method teaches students to carefully analyze and edit stories. This book includes 18 lessons in grammar and mechanics. Students identify and circle errors in each story and write their correction. The grammatical and mechanical errors in the paragraphs are based on general instructional guidelines for specific grade levels; the content level, however, is ungraded, allowing usage of these materials at many instructional levels. Writing styles and content are varied to sustain interest and to broaden the students' exposure to different writing formats, such as letters, stories, and dialogue. The illustrations integrated into the context of the activities further spark student interest. The skills developed can be applied to the students' own writing. Detailed answers are also included.

Editor in Chief: Beginning 2

This fun, engaging 80-page book teaches prefixes, suffixes, and new vocabulary. Each lesson includes activities where the student chooses the correct vocabulary word used in context, identifies the prefix or suffix, and solves a jumble puzzle that reinforces the lesson. The jumble puzzle is the punchline to a joke or riddle that is solved by unscrambling a set of words related to the one page lesson. In order to solve the jumble, students must first unscramble a set of vocabulary words related to the lesson. Each unscrambled word is a clue to the answer of the joke or riddle. The final step of the jumble puzzle is to look for multiple word meanings, synonyms, homographs, homophones, idioms, or figurative language to identify the answer to the joke or riddle. Students LOVE jumbles and each jumble reinforces the lesson. Try a sample (above) and you'll be hooked! A complete answer key is included.

Jumbles: Prefixes, Suffixes, Compound Words, Grades 3-5

Noreen Conte

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