Designed to help children learn more advanced reading skills such as interpreting, cause and effect, evaluating, and figures of speech.

Gives children an opportunity to sharpen their deductive reasoning skills.

Contains worksheets that break down abstract social thinking concepts into concrete steps that students can work on individually or in groups, at home or in school. The worksheets are intended for students with high functioning autism, Asperger's Syndrome, nonverbal learning disability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and other social cognitive deficits. Worksheets are coded by age-level.

Help children of all learning styles and strengths improve their critical thinking skills with these creative, cross-curricular activities. Each engaging activity focuses on skills such as recognizing and recalling, evaluating, and analyzing.

This a unique guide to geography education in all its aspects - the key concepts, resources, research findings, movements, issues, debates, educators and organizations that characterize the subject. Presented in an easy-to-use, A-Z format, the entries constitute an invaluable one-stop resource for all geography teachers and education students.

A proven program for enhancing students' thinking and comprehension abilities Visible Thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions, while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, Visible Thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines?small sets of questions or a short sequence of steps?as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed and reflected upon. Helps direct student thinking and structure classroom discussion Can be applied with students at all grade levels and in all content areas Includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies The book also comes with a DVD of video clips featuring Visible Thinking in practice in different classrooms.