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Attribits
A disarmingly simple card game that's played like dominoes by matching shape attributes (thick/thin, big/small, colours , hexagonal, vertices, straight sides....). Different levels of matching (2-6 attributes) make Attribits simple enough for juniors, challenging enough for adults. Fun and READ MORE

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Attribits and Attribobs
SAVE!Buy Attribits and Attribobs together. READ MORE

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Attribobs
Another disarmingly simple yet challenging card game that becomes as complex as you want it to! Improves vocabulary, analytical thinking, and creativity, often with much laughter! Involves critical & creative thinking - what attributes do the 2 items have in common? Students can play choosin READ MORE

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AUTHOR: Jean Edwards
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Brain Revvers Bk 1
YR 3-4
Stimulating warmer-uppers designed to give you 5 to 10-minute activities to rev up your students' brains and get them into gear for thinking! Compiled from various ThinkShop best-sellers, with some new Brain Revvers added in to the mix. All are aimed at higher-level thinking; the READ MORE


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AUTHOR: Jean Edwards
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Can You Find Me? (K - 2)
A WONDERFUL book (K-2) for comprehension and thinking: full of colourful rhyming riddles that will jump-start young minds into reading-readiness, science, maths, and social studies. Children beg to do more of these! Children also develop critical thinking and listening skills. Designed for rea READ MORE

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CoRT Thinking Skills Books
$44 per book in the series. Click on title for details or to purchase.
For the teacher who wants to get more serious about thinking skills, here are Edward de Bono's classic teachers' guidebooks to teaching thinking skills as tools. More rigorous and specific tools READ MORE


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  CORT 1: PMI etc: $42
  CORT 2: organisation: $42
  CORT 3: critical thinking: $42
  CORT 4: creativity: $42
  CORT 5: values: $42
  CORT 6: consolidator: $42
  FULL CORT SET $232: save $32!
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Creativity Starters
This is the book you need to introduce your students to creative thinking as well as to teach them to assess and improve their individual scores. Fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration all addressed. Students love these creativity starters!
Fun discussions, either one-on-one READ MORE


Price: $34.00
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AUTHOR: Jean Edwards
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Design It!
Students can approach these worksheets with either realistic, practical creative solutions; or with futuristic or off-the-wall ideas. Very simple instructions, offering students the chance to re-design their bedroom, design a way of saving water in the garden, design a billboard ad for your READ MORE

Price: $28.00
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Dysgraphia: Why Johhny Can't Write, 3rd ed
A much-sought-after book. Provides guidelines for recognizing and identifying children with dysgraphia, parenting and teaching methods, and numerous tips and resources. You'll find information of particular value and interest if you're a parent, teacher, pediatrician, neurologist, psycholo READ MORE

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Eyes Open
Great for visual and hands-on learners. Teach younger students about their community's road signs and also basic maps and symbols! A Visual Language Unit that integrates symbols, road signs and advertising in one fruitful, fun package. Includes seven learning activities such as a walking tour, READ MORE

Price: $25.00
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AUTHOR: Lisa Berry
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First Poems for Thinking
All poetry is magic.. 30 poems old and new for young children to share, enjoy, think about, and discuss.
Sample key questions about Robert Fisher's poem I'd rather be- What choices have you got? And about the poem Secret Things - Is it a good thing to keep secrets?

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AUTHOR: Robert Fisher
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First Stories for Thinking
Contains thirty multicultural stories that will captivate your students and provide the basis for much thinking and discussing. Complete with teaching guide, discussion plans and thinking activities for each story. Sample questions from First Stories for Thinking. What does pretending mean READ MORE

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AUTHOR: Robert Fisher
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Graphic Thinkers
Need tools to help your students to organise their thinking? And to get them using higher-level thinking? Then this is the book for you! This set of graphic organisers will encourage broader and deeper thinking and teach problem-solving strategies such as analysis and ranking using criteri READ MORE

Price: $36.00
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AUTHOR: Jean Edwards
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He Huanga
Maori-language version of Attribobs. A great game for fun reinforcement of vocabulary, spelling and phonics of maori words and objects, as well a a real booster for thinking skills. Students (and adults!) have to think creatively and critically to analyse objects for similarities. The game READ MORE

Price: $18.00
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AUTHOR: Jean Edwards, translated by Ross Gregory
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HOT Units, Bk 1- Higher Order Thinking
Plug these hot units right into your classroom. Three books in this series, chock full of Bloom's-based units to extend your class units. A wealth of activities to easily incorporate higher-level thinking into your curriculum, or as extension activities.Topics include: Bk 1 (Y 1-4) Dinosau READ MORE

Price: $44.00
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AUTHOR: Elaine Le Sueur
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How To Identify Gifted & Talented Students
A practical guide to help you get past that camouflage, and accurately identify Gifted and talented students. Details specific tests and screens for you to get the ball rolling in your school with defensible ID. Includes screens such as questionnaires but not the published tests like Raven READ MORE

Price: $47.00
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How To Teach Thinking Skills
AT LAST! A practical introduction to teaching thinking skills. Includes enough theory for thorough comprehension, as well as a substantial Toolbox of ready-to-use activities to get your class really thinking! Truly a best-seller. Some schools are buying one for each teacher or one for each READ MORE

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AUTHOR: Jean Edwards
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Mathematical Reasoning bk 1 + manual

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Teaches children to REASON out answers and generate differen READ MORE


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AUTHOR: W Hill & R Edwards
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Maths Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites

20 Numeracy Strategies That Engage the Brain, PreK-8!
Engage students in effective, meaningful experiences in mathematics!. The author follows the successful format of her previous bestsellers and offers teachers twenty powerful brain-based teaching strategies that improve instruc READ MORE


Price: $65.00
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ISBN: 9781741704259
AUTHOR: Marcia Tate
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Open the Envelope
Cards illustrated with animals that students must identify by asking carefully formulated, fact-finding white-hat questions - no wild guessing allowed! Hugely popular with both students and teachers.
Based on the old Twenty Questions" show, this game helps teach questioning skills, anal READ MORE


Price: $19.00
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AUTHOR: Jean Edwards
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Place for Pets
Technology Unit by Lisa Berry. Your students will thrive on this pets unit! Technology-based, it helps children to research, discuss, design and create, all in an effort to improve life-style conditions for pets. Cut and paste, pet bingo, forming questions, organising and analysing READ MORE

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Question Starters- A4 posters
Want to get teachers and students asking thoughtful and rich questions?
LAMINATED set of Question Starters ready to go!
Only $10 more for the laminated set.
Forty colourful A4 posters; one for each week of teaching, to remind students of the different important ways of analysing i READ MORE


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RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES ebook (Introductory version)
The concept of RIGHTS & RESPONSIBILITIES examines the role that you and others play in a co-operative environment, using Big Understandings such as "Although we are individuals we need to consider other people�s points of view to be part of a society or group" through to Essential Question READ MORE

Price: $15.00
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AUTHOR: Jean Edwards, Janice Gulbransen,Teressa Hosie
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Te Whaihanga: Honongotanga
Very effective for vocabulary and creative thinking skills. These analogy-based worksheets will help your students to learn and practise important skills including logical thinking, classifying, analysing, perceiving patterns and relationships (such as cause and effect). Great for vocabular READ MORE

Price: $32.00
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Thinking Together
A programme of activities for developing speaking, listening and thinking skills. This invaluable book includes activities which have relevance to English, maths, science, values and citizenship. A key element of the Thinking Together approach is exploratory talk, aiming to help students t READ MORE

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Thinking Vocabulary, Book 1
Analogy-based worksheets that help students to learn and practice important critical thinking skills from the Essential Skills needed for real-world problem-solving. Including logical thinking, analysing, classifying and perceiving patterns and relationships (such as cause and effect). Also very eff READ MORE

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Three Thinking Skills poster set
Three full-colour A3-size posters - Creative thinking, Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving - to keep the values of thinking skills on display. An excellent "thinking about thinking" reminder for your students, and a colourful addition to your classroom walls. A3 size. READ MORE

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