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   IN THIS ISSUE:                                                            Vol. 4 No. 7: July 2007

            Assessment Test Search Guide
            Why Teach Critical Thinking?
            Celebrate National Parent's Day!
            Free Activities of the Month!
            Best Seller: Math Detective® Beginning
            Quote of the Month

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Teaching Signs for Baby Minds™ DVD 1

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Teaching Signs for Baby Minds™ teaches you how to communicate with your baby or toddler before he or she can speak! These fun, easy-to-follow DVDs show you how to use American Sign Language (ASL) to teach your baby how to communicate wants, needs, and observations. Teaching your baby sign language is a gift the two of you can share throughout your lives.


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Assessment Test Search Guide

The Assessment Test Search Guide allows you to quickly and easily find the products that will help your students prepare for State and National Assessment Tests. You'll find products to prepare for the CogAT, Naglieri, SATs, IQ Tests, and many more! This powerful service includes a host of well-known assessment tests and provides links to the products that will help you boost your student's test scores!


Assessment Test Search Guide



    Why Teach Critical Thinking?

Aside from food, water, and shelter, the one thing that a person will need most in life is an education. Of those four necessities, education is the only one that can help ensure a person's consistent ability to provide himself or herself with the other three. It is also a sad fact that, however much people and politicians talk about its importance, education in the US is not where it should be.

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    Celebrate National Parent's Day - July 22nd!

The Congressional Resolution that passed Parents' Day into law established this day as a time for "recognizing, uplifting, and supporting the parents in the rearing of children." We applaud this goal and would like to share with you a few ways to make the most of this day.






  1. Cleverly tell your child that you would love a nice thank you letter. Not only will you receive praise, your child will be practicing valuable writing skills. Use Punctuation Puzzler to show your children how humorous writing can be! Can you figure out who says what in the activity pictured to the left?

  2. Laugh and giggle with your kids with these blurt-the-answer-out-loud Think-A-Grams verbal picture puzzles. Then, challenge your kids to create their own. Can you guess the expression pictured in the sample to the left?

  3. Host a party with your friends and earn free educational materials! Bright Minds Consultants do all the work; you just bring your friends. The amount of your free products increases based on the total sales from your party and booking credits earned.

  4. Take a break and enjoy our brain-busting software games. Or, better yet, challenge your children to a 2-player game of Think Ahead or Math Blockout.

  5. Relax on the couch with the kids and learn American Sign Language (ASL)! Teaching Signs for Baby Minds offers fun, easy to follow DVD instruction that teaches you how to communicate with your baby or toddler before he or she can speak! You can boost your baby's IQ and your resume all at the same time!

    Happy Parent's Day!


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    Free Activities of the Month
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Grades 1-3   Grades 2-3
Developing Critical Thinking through Science Book 1

No-cost, easy-to-use activities teach physical science and develop scientific thinking!

$24.99
  Scratch Your Brain® Clever Math Ticklers A1

Contains a variety of engaging, often humorous activities, puzzles, patterns, sequences, writing multi-step solutions, and more!

$16.99
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Grades 3-5     Grades 7-12+  
Think Analogies® A1

Effectively teaches students how to analyze and classify analogies by relationship, category, and structure.

$13.99

  Critical Thinking Activities to Improve Writing Skills: Whatcha-Macallits

Encourages students to choose their words carefully, and produce concise, accurate, detailed, and sometimes persuasive, writing.

$12.99
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    Best Seller: Math Detective® Beginning

Teaches standards-based math as it develops students' reading, writing, and thinking skills!
Grades 3-4 | 38 Activities | $18.99

Math Detective® uses topics and skills drawn from national math standards to prepare your students for advanced math courses and assessments that measure reasoning, reading comprehension, and writing in math.

Students read a short story that includes a chart, table, or graph. Next they answer critical thinking questions to improve their understanding of the math concept and develop their critical thinking (comprehension) skills. Students can’t just scan the story for answers—they must carefully analyze and synthesize the information from the text and the chart, table, or graph to explain and support their answers.

Titles are available for grades 3-8.
An interactive software version is also available.


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    Quote of the Month

"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." — HENRI BERGSON, French Philosopher and Educator



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