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The Complete Middle School Study Guide
Everything You Need to Ace History, Science, Etc. In One Big Fat Notebook, it’s excellent as a
study aid, for note-taking practice, and for improving academic comprehension.
The Secret Door
A cooperative mystery game that focuses on recalling placement of the king’s treasures to avoid them being stolen while time is ticking. A lot of fun, strategy and memory skills are developed as the whole team plays together to beat the board’s robber. Ages 5-8.
The Way it Was
The Way It Was series is excellent to work on Cloze, context clues, figurative
language, visualization, and Ask and Answer
Touch and Talk Communakit
The Touch & Talk kit by Communakit is an innovative language activity designed to enhance early language development. Through tactile, visual, and auditory interaction, this kit helps children improve their vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar, and social communication—all while engaging with fun, sensory-rich objects.
Understanding Sentences Fun Deck
Excellent Reading Comprehension strategy when kids are ready to shift from referring to pictures to connect the text to referring to text and finding evidence in the pictures. Nice levels and builds on the sentence level with solid skill acquisition.
Visualizing and Verbalizing
This manual provides the theory and specific steps to develop concept imagery, the ability to image a gestalt (whole) from language. It describes the important questioning techniques that stimulate mental imagery, so the teacher can learn to help students visualize language and verbalize what they have imaged.
What is the Main Idea
Story cards to help students identify the main idea in a paragraph. Level One cards are 3-4 sentences long. Level Two cards are 5-7 sentences long. Students use the secret decoder to self-check answers. Great for Left Brainers as it targets the main idea.
WHOHQ Series
The Who was book series has excellent books and series for all ages to teach reading comprehension effectively.
Yo Sacramento! (And all those other State Capitals you don’t know)
know all the States and Capitals in a multi-sensory, fun way! This is terrific. These books are fabulous, witty, and a lot of fun.
Yo, Millard Fillmore! (and all those other presidents you don’t know)
know all the presidents in a multi-sensory, fun way! This is terrific. These books are fabulous, and witty, and a lot of fun.
Zoom by Istvan Banyai
This wordless book teaches detail to the big picture as it zooms in from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island.
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