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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Famous quotes containing the word skills:
“Some parents were awful back then and are awful still. The process of raising you didn’t turn them into grown-ups. Parents who were clearly imperfect can be helpful to you. As you were trying to grow up despite their fumbling efforts, you had to develop skills and tolerances other kids missed out on. Some of the strongest people I know grew up taking care of inept, invalid, or psychotic parents—but they know the parents weren’t normal, healthy, or whole.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)
“Make-believe is the avenue to much of the young child’s early understanding. He sorts out impressions and tries out ideas that are foundational to his later realistic comprehension. This private world sometimes is a quiet, solitary
world. More often it is a noisy, busy, crowded place where language grows, and social skills develop, and where perseverance and attention-span expand.”
—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)
“I have great faith in ‘ordinary parents.’ Who has a child’s welfare more at heart than his ordinary parent? It’s 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.”
—Haim Ginott (20th century)