K-5th Grade

Getting Started

For K-2 kids, The Incredible Flexible You Set (volume 1) is where to start. For our 2nd to 5th grade students you can start with You Are a Social Detective. Both of these products allow  adults and children to learn together basic Social Thinking concepts, including the Social Thinking Vocabulary. By teaching an explicit language to students on how to "detect" and observe others' as well as their own behaviors, students develop deeper insights into the social world.

Click "Read More" or browse the titles below for additional strategies for this age group, including Whole Body Listening.

Whole Body Listening Larry at Home is a colorfully illustrated teaching storybook that provides fun ways to teach children an abstract but essential idea - that their eyes, hands, brains – their whole bodies! – communicate, engage with and affect the people around them. Parents, teachers and therapists use this book to teach this challenging concept through illustrated scenarios at home, in the car, with friends, with grandparents. Also, there's a Whole Body Listening Larry at School book -- whether at home or the classroom, these books  spark some great discussions!

We Can Make It Better! A Strategy to Motivate and Engage Young Learners in Social Problem Solving Through Flexible Stories is a good tool for teaching younger elementary school students (K-3rd grade) problem solving strategies through two main characters, Maria and Bob. Problem Solving is at the heart of social relationships!

The New Social Story Book Social Stories™ helps children with autism or Asperger's Syndrome to understand the social world around them. This book is an updated version of the New Social Story Book. Social Stories are revered for being a simple informative treatment tool to help students learn to understand and adapt their behavior that others may find problematic in specific situations. Social Stories encourages thinking about the hidden rules in situations, the perspective of others, as well as guiding the reader to expected behaviors in various situations.

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A Social Thinking Curriculum for the Preschool and Early Elementary Years (ages 4-7) The Incredible Flexible You is an engaging new Social Thinking educational series that combines a social learning framework used in schools across the U.S. with music and dramatic play activities that will appeal to early learners. Play is the learning environment of young children, and this curriculum capitalizes on this idea!
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Winner of a 2012 Mom's Choice Award and a 2012 National Parenting Publications Award! By Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke and illustrated by Kelly Knopp. For parents and professionals to use with students 4 years - 5th grade.

Every one of us is a Social Detective. We are good Social Detectives when we use our eyes, ears, and brains to figure out what others are planning to do next or are presently doing and what they mean by their words and deeds. This entertaining comic book offers different ways that can be reviewed repeatedly with students to teach them how to develop their own social detective skills. Enjoy watching your students and kids blossom day-by-day into successful Social Detectives!


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For professionals and parents to use with their students about 7-12 years old. This product explores the Social Thinking teaching concepts discussed in our book, You Are a Social Detective. A key aspect of helping students improve their competencies and therefore their social skills, involves teaching our students to take more active notice of relevant social cues generated by participants in context. PC and Mac compatible.
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By Kristen Wilson, MS, CCC, Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC For parents and professionals to use with students 4-9yrs. This colorfully illustrated teaching storybook provides fun ways to teach children an abstract but essential idea - that their eyes, hands, brains – their whole bodies! – communicate, engage with and affect the people around them. Parents, teachers and therapists use this book to teach this challenging concept through illustrated scenarios at home, in the car, with friends, with grandparents – and a number of other very recognizable situations. If your young (primarily pre-K to third grade) student(s) is a bit (or a lot) wiggly, you might need this book! The book can be read with the child and the child then can read the book on his or her own, with siblings, friends, grandparents – it’s sure to spark some great discussions!
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By Kristen Wilson, MS, CCC, Elizabeth Sautter, MA, CCC For parents and professionals to use with individuals 4 to 9 years old.

This second storybook focuses on the classroom, recess and the situations of school! Educators can use the storybook to teach young (primarily pre-K to third grade) student(s) who may need to learn better self-regulation how their entire bodies affect those around them.
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For professionals and parents to use with individuals 4 to 9 years old. The Whole Body Listening Larry Poster provides a fun way to reinforce lessons of the Whole Body Listening Larry storybooks.
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by Elizabeth M. Delsandro, M.S., CCC-SLP. For parents and professionals to use with students 4yrs - 9yrs. CD included with printable worksheets and 21 “We Can Make It Better!” Stories©. We Can Make It Better! is a resource for safe and motivating social problem-solving practice. With the right tools, practice and understanding, students can learn how to make good choices — in their thoughts, actions and words — that result in improved social interactions.
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For parents and professionals to use with students in kindergarten - middle school. The newest offering by Carol Gray! Social Stories help the child with autism or Asperger's Syndrome to understand the social world around them. This book is an updated version of the New Social Story Book with new text and accompanying illustrations.
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by Michelle Garcia Winner For professionals and parents to use with ALL ages! This is where to start to learn more about social interaction and social awareness! Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME 2nd Edition provides Michelle Garcia Winner's core concepts and treatment methods of Social Thinking® and a foundation for using books like Superflex, You Are A Social Detective and more! The 2nd Edition includes extensive curriculum content on perspective-taking, the Social Thinking Dynamic Assessment Protocol® and more. Age-targeted lesson and activity ideas, templates and handouts are throughout the book.
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By Michelle Garcia Winner. For professionals and parents to use with all ages. This book is where to start to learn more about how social problems connect to academic problems, such as reading comprehension and written expression. The book introduces Michelle's ILAUGH model, that helps to pinpoint specific challenges. For ages K-adulthood grade and beyond, this book also provides insight on what information we expect students to develop "naturally" to become strong learners.
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By Michelle Garcia Winner
For parents and professionals to use with ALL ages! Think Social! is the core Social Thinking® curriculum book, a complement to Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME. The book provides methods for teaching social thinking to students who have high-functioning autism, Asperger's Syndrome and ADHD, and others, diagnosed and undiagnosed, with social thinking challenges. Building upon the lessons of Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, the book sequences through eight chapters and 69 lessons that help students explore the basics of working and thinking in a group. Each chapter addresses how to use and interpret language (verbal and nonverbal) to further understand the context of communications. The lessons have helped individuals in K-12 and through adulthood.
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By Anna Vagin, PhD. Movie Time Social Learning takes an activity many students already love—watching movies—and uses it as a springboard to study the intricacies of social interaction, the depth and range of emotions we experience in our lives, and the social expression that drives our interactions.
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By Jessica Minahan and Nancy Rappaport Based on a collaboration dating back nearly a decade, the authors—a behavioral analyst and a child psychiatrist—reveal their systematic approach for deciphering causes and patterns of difficult behaviors and how to match them with proven strategies for getting students back on track to learn.
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For parents and professionals to use with 3rd graders - adulthood. One of the most successful tools of Social Thinking®, Social Behavior Mapping offers cognitive behavior strategy to teach individuals about the specific relationship between behaviors, others' perspectives, others' actions (consequences) and the student's own emotions about those around him or her. Intended for 3rd-12th grade students, this strategy is most effective for students with solid language skills.
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For parents and professionals to use with 3rd graders - adulthood. Cognitive behavioral techniques are those which help a student to learn the thinking behind expected behaviors. Social StoriesTM (developed by Carol Gray) is one type of cognitive behavioral technique for teaching students how to cope in a specific context or with specific people. "Social Behavior Mapping" is another complimentary method, which helps students to understand how our behaviors (expected and unexpected) impact how people feel, which then impacts how they treat us, which then impacts how we feel about ourselves. For educators and others treating and teaching 3rd through 12th grade.
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By Brenda Smith Myles, Melissa Trautman, and Ronda Schelvan. Foreward by Michelle Garcia Winner. In the revised and expanded edition of this popular book, the authors narrow their target to issues common to adolescents and young adults.
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By Leah Kuypers For professionals and parents to use with students elementary school - high school. Book and CD. The Zones of Regulation is a curriculum geared toward helping students gain skills in consciously regulating their actions, which in turn leads to increased control and problem solving abilities. Using a cognitive behavior approach, the curriculum’s learning activities are designed to help students recognize when they are in different states called “zones,” with each of four zones represented by a different color. In the activities, students also learn how to use strategies or tools to stay in a zone or move from one to another. Students explore calming techniques, cognitive strategies, and sensory supports so they will have a toolbox of methods to use to move between zones.
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For professionals and parents to use with students in elementary school - high school. Poster to reinforce the four "zones" and the related lessons of The Zones of Regulation book/curriculum/CD.
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For students 8-11 years old with autism spectrum disorders, problems with flexibility and goal-directed behavior can be a major obstacle to success in school and in life. But flexibility and goal-setting can be taught just like any other skill—and this how-to manual equips professionals with simple, real-world ways to help students with ASD develop this critical aspect of executive function.
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By Amy Kahofer and Jack Pransky This engaging children's book (and CD with lessons) introduces K-5 readers to the concept of thought and the amazing power our thoughts have on our lives. Authors Amy Kahofer and noted prevention specialist Jack Pransky present a simple yet profound message: that our thinking creates our feelings and behavior, and when our minds are calm we have access to natural wisdom and healthy feelings.
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For students to use! Students enjoy squeezing the small, blue foam rubber brains as the brains encourage them to think more flexibly and abstractly about the size of their problems and the choices they are making. Used in lessons that encourage flexible thinking, including those in Superflex and Thinking About YOU Thinking About ME, the brains offer a fun way to inspire our students to think about their social thinking and related skills. "Social Thinking is Flexible Thinking" is inscribed on the brains to reinforce the lessons the students are learning.
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By Audra Jensen. For parents and professionals to use with individuals in primary school to late elementary school. Reading comprehension is more than being able to read words and sentences... How many parents and teachers have experienced the child who can read, often at an early age, but can't seem to grasp the meaning behind a sentence, or struggles to interpret story lines or the characters' perspectives or emotions? Author Audra Jensen brilliantly makes the connections! For Parents and Professionals to use.
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For professionals and parents. Active social skill development begins with birth and expands across our lifetime. This DVD looks at how social thinking supports the development of social skills from the first year of life, influencing language development and academic success, as well as skills for adult living. Social thinking concepts and strategies are introduced to support teaching across the home and school day.
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by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner
Comic Book by Stephanie Madrigal/Illustrated by Kelly Knopp. For professionals and parents to use with students in 3rd - 5th grade.

Superflex®: A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum provides educators, parents and therapists fun and motivating ways to teach students with social and communication difficulties (undiagnosed or diagnosed, such as Asperger Syndrome, ADHD, high-functioning autism or similar). The three part cognitive behavioral curriculum helps students to develop further awareness of their own thinking and social behaviors and learn strategies to help them develop better self-regulation across a range of these behaviors.


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By Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner. Illustrated by Kelly Knopp. For professionals and parents to use with students in 3rd-5th grade. In this teaching comic book in the Superflex series, Superflex swoops down to help Aiden overcome the Unthinkable, Glassman (who causes our over-reactions to small things), at just the right time: the first day of school!
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By Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner; illustrated by Kyle Richardson. For parents and professionals to use with 3rd - 5th grade students. Superflex takes on Brain Eater focuses on one of the social cognitive challenges we see most often in our students - distractibility! The engaging comic book (and CD with lessons) is the third in our Superflex series designed to help children learn more about their own social behavior and strategies to regulate it!
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If you are interested in the product, click the "notify me" button below, and we will inform you when it is for sale. This latest edition in the Superflex series, for 3rd through 5th graders, is a compilation work that introduces 82 new Unthinkables and 14 new Thinkables submitted by Social Town citizens of all ages, which have been edited and expanded upon by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner. Unthinkables and Thinkables are grouped by theme/category for easy reference by student or adult, and each entry includes the character’s power, related information about its characteristics, and strategies to defeat the Unthinkable or bolster a Thinkables’ help.
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Customers should only purchase this story book if they have purchased the full Superflex curriculum.
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For professionals and parents to use with students in 2nd-5th grade. This Superflex poster (18"x24") colorfully shows the full Team of Unthinkables - from Mean Jean to Energy Hare-y - and how they try to defeat our students' inner Superflex superhero. But Superflex always remains in the center to remind the students (and all of us!) to use our flexible thinking to overcome them! The poster serves as a visual reminder and reinforcement of your lessons and is perfect for the classroom, the bedroom - anywhere flexible thinking is needed!
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For use by professionals and parents with students 3rd grade and above. Social Thinking posters arose from the need in classrooms across the country for clear, visual reinforcement of Social Thinking concepts. A classroom (therapy room or even home) functions most effectively if the students are actively engaged in appropriate social behavior, and learning that behavior, for that environment. Four posters included in this package: Being Part of a Group, Boring Moment, Social Behavior Map and Social Behavior Dry Erase Template (each also available by title in All Products). Please note, the Superflex poster is NOT included in this poster pack.
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For professionals and parents to use with 3rd graders - adulthood. Social Behavior Mapping is a strategy described in detail in Michelle's book, Thinking About You Thinking About Me. The purpose of a social behavior map is to help students learn how each behavior they do has an emotional impact on those around them
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For professionals and parents to use with 3rd graders - adulthood. This social behavior map poster is a template that can be hung in a classroom or therapy room to help student's problem solve how expected and unexpected behaviors can set off predictable chain reactions of emotions and related behaviors from others.
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For professionals and parents to use with students 3rd grade and up. Social skills are expressed each time we co-exist in a group. To use our social skills well simply means each of us is sharing space effectively. What does it take to share our space? This poster lays out the 4 steps of being part of group for home, school and therapy room.
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For use by professional and parents with students 3rd grade and up. An important life skill is coping with boredom when participating in groups. The Boring Moments Poster uses humor to explicitly state the “expected” and “unexpected” behaviors related to boredom. With the support of the poster teachers can have more explicit discussions with students
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Learning to Use the Power of Your Eyes - An Activity and Coloring Book. For preschoolers - 2nd graders to use on their own! Social learning made fun! Zeebu has created an activity book to help your child/student become a social thinker!
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Flexible thinking, winning, losing, sportsmanship, and playing fair are a few of the topics Zeebu and his friends encounter in Play Power.
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For preschoolers - 2nd graders to use on their own! With Eye Power 2, your child or student will continue to think socially with Zeebu!
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For parents and professionals to use with students preschool - 2nd grade. Welcome to Keeping Calm, an activity and coloring book featuring Playtime with Zeebu friends.
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For students, preschool - 2nd grade, to use on their own! Let Zeebu help you socially engage your child or student! The DVD, “Playtime with Zeebu – Sharing,” is the beginning of a new brand of products specifically designed for children who have social delays. For children aged 3-10 who are emerging perspective takers, “Playtime with Zeebu” uses slow pace, deliberate language and simplified versions of Michelle Garcia Winner’s social thinking to build initial foundations for social thinking development.


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For professionals and parents. Due to the importance of understanding and telling stories for all children, Nurturing Narratives was developed as a story-based language intervention for children.
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For professionals and parents to use with students 4th grade through high school. Detective agencies come in many shapes and forms, but never before has there been a one-man social detective agency! Johnny Multony, himself transformed from a social misfit to a socially savvy kid, starts the first-ever social detective agency!
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For parents and professionals to use with individuals in kindergarten through 5th grade. Self awareness and self esteem is an essential prerequisite to developing social skills which makes this book is an excellent first step to any social skills program.
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By Dr. Peter Vermeulen. Context plays a critical role in the way the human brain processes information. This is especially true in the area of social information. Whenever we are in a situation, we take into consideration the who, what, where, when, and why of the many variables that surround us to determine what to say or do.
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By MindWing Concepts, Inc.

For professionals and parents to use with students in kindergarten - high school.

MindWing’s NEW Autism Collection uses the Story Grammar Marker® and Narrative Development to help children with verbal organization, writing, expression & recognition of feelings, Perspective-Taking, Theory of Mind, Oral Language, Cause-Effect, Inference, Problem Solving, Planning, Sentence Structure, Consequence and more!


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Assisting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses by Kari Dunn Buron and Mitzi Curtis
For professionals and parents to use with students in kindergarten - high school. In this must-have resource, "two teachers from Minnesota" share their successful use of the simple concept of 5-point scales to help students understand and control their emotional reactions to everyday events that might otherwise set in motion escalating reactions. Whether it is inappropriate touching, obsessions, yelling, hitting or making hurtful statements to other students, this clearly illustrated book shows how to break down a given behavior and, with the student's active participation, develop a unique scale that identifies the problem and suggests alternative positive behaviors at each level of the scale!
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By Kari Dunn Buron. For professionals and parents to use with students in upper elementary school - young adulthood. Building on the 5-point scale, Kari has written a workbook for adolescents and young adults called A 5 Is Against the Law! The book takes a narrower look at challenging behavior with a particular focus on behaviors that can spell trouble for youth who have difficulty understanding and maintaining social boundaries.
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by Kari Dunn Buron. For parents and professionals to use with students 4yrs - 5th grade. The thought of "losing control" can cause major problems for children who live with anxiety. Now, parents, teachers and children have a helpful tool that gives young children an opportunity to explore their own feelings with parents or teachers as they react to events in their daily lives.
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For parents and professionals to use with students in preschool - 8th grade. What's an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration-crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents feeling frustrated, scared, worried, and desperate for help.
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By: Ronald M Rapee, Ann Wignall, Susan H. Spence, Vanessa Cobham, Heidi Lyneham
For professionals and parents to use with all ages. This expanded and updated version of a best-selling classic guides readers to help a child overcome anxiety and fears. It describes in detail strategies and techniques they can combine into a comprehensive self-help program for a child's particular needs. All of us have experienced anxiety, but few of us have been taught strategies to help manage it. This book is very helpful for teaching the lay person (parent or professional) about the core concepts of anxiety and strategies that can be used to help our students work through it. Anxiety is alive and well in our schools and in our homes; it is time we all learn some basics for how to directly address this topic. This is an excellent starting place.
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Judy Reaven, Audrey Blakeley-Smith, Chana Nichols & Susan Hepburn. Anxiety is one of the biggest challenges faced by children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders and Asperger syndrome. Help them conquer their fears—and participate more fully in home, school, and community life—with this innovative group therapy program for children 8–14 years old and their parents.
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For parents and professionals to use with students k-6th grade. Helping children develop greater empathy-related awareness and skills can help prevent negative social behaviors such as bullying, meanness, and alienation. Empathy is a fundamental social emotion because it brings a sense of emotional connection to others.
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For professionals and parents to use with preschoolers - 4th graders. Miranda Peabody had no patience for the other students in class and just didn’t understand why they couldn’t be as smart and talented as she was. Her teacher, Mrs. Klemp, suggested that she try to understand other people by “standing in their shoes.”
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For use by professionals and parents with students in preschool - 5th grade. The children set of pictures is recommended for students under 12 years old. Used for assessing your student, this tool can also encourage a variety of concepts, such as problem-solving, narrative language and making inferences and predictions. This product, and the adult one, serves as a tool for all speech language pathologists and teachers working with students with reading comprehension and narrative language challenges
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by Ellyn Lucas Arwood, Ed.D.; Carole Kaulitz, M.Ed.; and Mabel Brown, M.A.For professionals and parents to use with ALL ages! Visuals of all kinds are used as supports for individuals on the autism spectrum who tend to think and learn visually. However, not all visuals are created equal! This new and important book explores "The Language of Pictures," showing how to match visual tools with the developmental level of the child or adult you are working with. A great way to learn the science behind the art!
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Tangible time management is finally a reality with the Time Timer. When you need to manage time or teach the concept of time, there is no better tool than a Time Timer.
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Tangible time management is finally a reality with the Time Timer!
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With the Time Timer CD you have the option to use a visual depiction only, or add sound. It has the ability to easily change from minutes to seconds or even hours, offers a lock-down feature, and the on-screen size can be altered. The Time Timer CD is Macintosh® and Windows® compatible.
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