Kindergarten P.E.T.S.

By Sandy Wyatt & Dodie Merritt

Kindergartern P.E.T.S., the newest in the series, is designed to teach higher-level thinking skills to all kindergarten students, as well as heling in the identification of academically talented students. Stimulating, fun activities challenge early learners in convergent, divergent, evaluative, and visual thinking. The activities cn be used with any of the popular trade books.

Primary Education Thinking Skills
(PETS)

by Jody Nichols, Sally Thomson, Margaret Wolfe, & Dodie Merritt

Use this full year curriculum to introduce your students to Dudley the Detective and Sybil the Scientist, the convergent thinkers; Isabel the Inventor and Yolanda the Yarnspinner, the divergent thinkers; Jordan the Judge, the evaluative thinker; and Max the Magician, the visual thinker. Use the whole group lessons to practice and reinforce high level thinking skills. Use the small group lessons for enrichment. Your students will have fun learning about thinkers who use clues to find one right answer, brainstorm to find lots of answers, study parts of things, use imaginations, look for patterns, and use considerations.

Primary Education Thinking Skills
(PETS 2)

by Jody Nichols, Sally Thomson, Margaret Wolfe, & Dodie Merritt

PETS 2 is an extension of those thinking strategies from the original PETS book. Students discover how, as they work together, to blend their thinking skills to problem solve. Introduce your students to Dudley the Detective, Sybil the Scientists, Isabel the Inventor, Max the Magician and more. This full year, ready to use, self-contained curriculum includes detailed lesson plans, assessment checklists read-aloud/along stories, a series of reproducible class activities and games to practice and reinforce high level thinking skills.

Primary Education Thinking Skills
(PETS 3)

By Merritt, Nichols, Thompson, Wolfe

In PETS 3, the characters continue to blend their thinking skills in a problem-solving format.  More complex problems in logic, intervention, visual perception, and evaluation develop these thinking strategies more fully in the young learner thorough stories and whole class games and activities.  These small group lessons simulate students with high-interest, challenging activities, more intensive thinking games, and a variety of hands-on puzzles to solve.  Detailed lesson plans are provided for the whole class and small group lessons.

Questioning Makes the Difference

By Nancy Johnson

Questioning Makes the Difference identifies 4 kinds of classroom questions that motivate learners to develop better thinking skills and classroom products. Gives 100s of ready-to-use questions in many content areas and all grade levels.

The Quick Question Workbook

By Nancy Johnson

A full-year's curriculum of lessons to help kids practice learning and using good questioning skills.  It utilizes the best way to get creative, high level thinking from students.  Nancy gives them creative, high level examples on which to piggyback.  Includes, My Turn, Your Turn, Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!, Hooked on Bluebirds, Rhyming Questions, Let's Talk Turkey!, It's the Cat's Meow, Noun Practice, Catch the Question Bug Game, Cool Contraptions, A Fence Full of Questions, and more!