Welcome to
Thinking To Learn®
We are pleased to represent to you a robust line of critical thinking
and educational resources we believe will benefit your child or
the children you care for.
Whether you are visiting to find resources for
test preparation, to
supplement your child's learning, or for home education,
we want you to know that we are happy to assist you in
choosing wisely. Please give
us a call or email us if you have questions.
What Makes These
Resources Special? The books and software
we have selected to recommend to you are those that
teach core cognitive skills, and core content, and do it
well. Your children will have the opportunity to
do some thinking skills development and practice in the
following areas: similarities and differences,
classification, pattern, series, analogies, and
deductive reasoning. Several of the resources also
provide activities that improve both figural and verbal
reasoning.
Problem-solving, reading
comprehension and thinking mathematically, are all skill
areas in which US children score alarmingly low when
compared with their international counterparts from
developed countries. The resources we recommend to
you are exceptional at teaching and improving these
skills. (Stop back soon, or visit our
blog/podcast for more in-depth information about
both the learning and the life skills children need for
their futures in the 21st century.)
Easy-To-Use
Most important, is that every resource has been designed
with the parent and child in mind. And, they have
been in use in homes, small groups, and classrooms for a
long, long time. Our passion is to assist parents,
like ourselves, to access these resources and to find
the support you'll need as you implement them at home.
Stay in touch with us, through our newsletter and blog
and we'll share helpful hints and practical ideas for
developing the bright minds in your home.
Frequently Requested Resources
The most frequently requested information parents
contact us for is how to help their
children prepare for a variety of assessments. You'll find our
page with links to both resources and tests on the
assessments page.
There you'll find resources to prepare children
for assessment
tests like the Naglieri (NNAT),
OLSAT (Otis-Lennon),
or CogAT (Cognitive
Abilities Test), teaching core reasoning
skills considered indicative of future school
success.
Gifted and Talented Information If you have
gifted and
talented children, please visit our resource links page for links to
worthwhile websites that have been a great help to our
family and to many others. If you know of a good link that is missing,
please send it along.
 Preschool/Early
Learning Parents of preschool
children will be pleased to find the resources we
commend to you on these pages. They will give you
both a way to engage with your children to make a
difference in their preparedness for school, as well as
to provide the foundational skills they need to spur
their cognitive development.
 Children
love these resources and they ask
for more! I often describe them as the "Can we do MORE, Mom?
books" because of my son's consistent requests that we do
"just one more" rather than move on to another activity. Over the years, I've heard back from parents that their children
have responded in similar ways.
We hope you'll strongly consider giving your children the
opportunity to experience some of the resources we recommend, so that
they can improve their thinking, learn to meet challenge, and
do some "mind-full" learning.
The Right Kind of
Challenge The resources we recommend have
children doing 'weight-lifting for the brain'.
Exceptional skills are built that are, frankly, just not
found in other curriculum or supplemental materials.
Your children will benefit by the growth they will do,
and you'll find, as we did, that your thinking and
reasoning skills, along with other content knowledge,
improves as well!
Great for
Supplementation and Summer Time Fun!
Some of the resources we recommend are particularly good for supplementing in-school learning and for
summer fun or bridge
work. You can browse our
online catalog by
grade level,
assessment test, and
content/subject area
or search through other key
words.
Beyond "More of the
Same" to "Higher-Order Thinking Skills" - If your children are tired of the "same-old, same-old" found at the
school book fair, or the "more of the same" work sent home as summer bridge work,
consider these resource offerings as a way to freshen up and strengthen your child's learning
while building new skills considered essential for school success.
 Home
Educating curriculum or supplementation As a home
educating family, we are pleased to encourage other home educators to
consider these resources designated as core curriculum as
well as the supplemental materials. Many materials we offer
are award-winning, and recommended by well-known and respected
individuals within home education, like Cathy Duffy and the author of The Well-Trained Mind, Susan Wise-Bauer.
Our family has personally experienced the benefits of using many
of the resources we now recommend to you, which is a big part of why we chose
to represent them to other parents. Please don't hesitate to
call on us if you'd like to learn more about
how to implement them in your home school.
Why We Do This In addition to enjoying having a
family business, our passion is to encourage and assist all parents in engaging
in their children's
education in meaningful ways. We benefited from the help and direction
some caring parents gave us years ago. We want to share the same encouragement with parents who desire to learn about worthwhile
resources that will benefit their children. You, as a parent, can make a
significant difference in your child's future. You are on the right
path! We look forward to working with you and your
family.
 Can't
find what you need? If you have difficulty locating information you believe should
be on this website, or experience difficulty using this site, please
call on us or email us. We are happy to
assist you.
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