Teaching Your Students about their Brains:
The Super Friends who Live on Intelligence Avenue

Children are fascinated by super heroes, special friends and magical thinking. But often they do not know about the super, special powers that they have inside their own heads. In the first book of the children's series, BRILLIANT BRAIN BECOMES BRAINY, children are introduced to the many ways they can use their smart parts. This wonderfully illustrated book, accompanying audio tape and lesson plan make it easy to teach children about the power of their brains. Once they understand their own super powers, they can learn how to learn through pictures, through words, through music, through nature, through actions, through reflection, through interactions, and through logic

Travel with Brilliant Brain and Magnificent Mind around Intelligence Avenue
to learn more about specific strategies to use to master a skill related to school success and meeting higher standards. See how these two delightful characters interact with their 8 smart parts, modeling how all students can access their own intelligences. Each smart part comes alive as it provides a specific, usable strategy to enhance learning. This workshop will help students understand their multiple intelligences so they can be more independent and more successful in mastering the skills necessary in today's world.

Each of the six student books contains 8 different strategies for learning. Using the latest in brain based learning MM and BB provide a fun, creative, positive and useful way to help students learn how to learn. Once your students have learned the methods provided, they are encouraged to develop their own personal strategy banks to enhance their own learning and memory.

The teacher's manual (MI Strategies for Kids) is a wonderful, easy-to-read resource for anyone who wants to implement this brain based, empowerment model. It provides concrete examples, lesson plans for each of the books and the theoretical framework from which this series was created.

Specific Skill Seminars for teachers, parents and/or students are based on these new materials

Magnificent Mind Masters Multiplication
Magnificent visits her friends on Intelligence Avenue to build up her strategy bank to learn the 7's multiplication table. Magnificent is a
wonderful role model for children who are struggling with memorization of math facts. The 7's will be easy after this. The strategies Magnificent uses are: Rhyme in review, Draw a grid, Connect to sport, Connect to self, Observe carefully, Create a poem/anagram, Find the pattern and the Rule of zero.

Brilliant Brain Battles Bad Guys
Many young children deal with bad guys, either for real or imaginary. In this book Brilliant explores different strategies in order to get rid of 'bad guys'. This book teaches power over negative thoughts as well as modeling effective skills for understanding diversity and effective interpersonal problem solving. The strategies Brilliant uses include: Sing a song of being strong, Powerful pictures, Be strong and powerful, Feel good, Everything has a reason, Positive words, Question it and Don't be prejudiced.

Brilliant Brain Banishes Boredom
Children often need to wait. They can't always do what they want to do. Even if they are in a dynamic, exciting classroom, there is sometimes 'down  time' when children feel bored. In this book, Brilliant models specific strategies he uses in order to get rid of boredom. Brilliant demonstrates how to use the following strategies: Hocus Pocus, Picture it, Move to connect, Question yourself, Find the contribution, Make up word/sentence, Chart it and Make friends with the information.

Magnificent Mind Magnifies Meaning in Reading
Maggie has learned to decode but she struggles with figuring out the meaning when she reads. Join her as she travels down intelligence avenue, gathering strategies that allow her to improve her reading comprehension. Magnificent learns to: Write a song, Make puzzle pieces, Cross out and move, Take the words in, Find the clues, Cross word, Make deductions and Read between the lines.

Brilliant Brain Selects Spelling Strategies
Brilliant wants to spell better but he is frustrated with remembering words. He tried to do the things that his teacher recommended but they didn't always work. So Brilliant asks his friends, the Smart Parts, for some help. In this book, Brilliant learns to: Sing letters, Take a picture, Build a word, Think of what I know, Create patterns from animals, Use Word Parts, Count the letters and use the Story of real person.

Magnificent Mind Listens Mindfully
Magnificent has to develop up her listening skills. Everyone tells her to listen better but she doesn't know how. She tries to listen, but then her mind wanders and then she realizes she isn't listening any more. As Maggie builds up her listening strategies, your students will add ideas to their own tool box for learning. The strategies introduced in this book include: Listen to the rhythm, Draw pictures with words, Move without disturbing, Personalize, Pretend to be an animal, Make new word, Make a formula, and Make a friend with the information.

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Ellen Arnold, Ed.D
940 Westfall Road Suite 2
Rochester, NY 14618
Phone: 585-256-1730
Email: EllenArnold@Arncraft.com