Skills
ThermaGems - vocabulary, categorization and reasoning
Jukebox Jumbler - prefixes, surffixes, vocabulary, and spelling
Ice Breaker - vocabulary, antonyms, synonyms, homonyms
Crystal Gateway - sequencing, reading for meaning
LavaRocks - critical thinking, attributes, synonyms, antonyms, vocabulary, analogies
Bridge Builder - grammar, parts of speech, sentence structure
Rock Muncher - reading for meaning, main idea, detail, inference, vocabulary
Mystic Gateway - sequencing, reading for meaning
Mystic Messages - reading comprehension, using context clues, spelling, inference
Gates of Mount Valdrok - spelling, deductive thinking, hypothesis testing
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“I have great faith in ordinary parents. Who has a childs welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? Its been my experience that when parents are given the skills to be more helpful, not only are they able to use these skills, but they infuse them with a warmth and a style that is uniquely their own.”
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