Keep Up the Fun This Summer While Learning With Super Duper Publications {Review}

Auditory Memory for WH Questions Fun Deck • $12.95 • Grades 1+

With titles like Hairy Hank and Earl the Squirrel, kids will love listening to fun, short stories and then answering questions about them. Each of the 56 imaginative, illustrated cards always pose five WH questions — who, what, when, where, and why. Students use their auditory memory skills to answer, “Who found gold in Gold Mountain?” and “Why did Principal Ghostly nearly faint?” Listening carefully has never been so much fun!

Grammar Chipper Chat • $64.95 • Grades K-5

Prepositions, future tense, subjective pronouns — let the Syntax Safari begin! Using animal picture cards, this exciting magnetic chip game explores 16 of the grammatical structures found on most language assessments. The student fills in the missing word on the question side using the pictures as cues. When play (learning) is done, wave the magic wand for easy clean up.

Also available: 100 Extra Magnet Chips • $9.95 and 2-Pack Extra Magnetic Wands • $7.95

Granny’s Candies • $54.94 • Grade K-6

Hmmm, octopus and spider — how are they alike? Combine the excitement of picking colorful “candy” tokens from Granny’s candy jars with hundreds of opportunities to expand vocabulary skills. First, you fill up the “candy jars” with “candy” (soft, foamy, and colorful tokens). Then, players choose question cards from one of eight semantic areas (or mix and match cards). Youngsters answer the questions, roll the die, and pick “candy” from the jars. The player with the most “candy” at the end of the game wins. Sounds yummy!

Say and Glue for Language and Listening • $36.95 • Grades PreK-4

“Find the ladybug. Glue it on the ground.” Early learners have a chance to be in cut-and-paste heaven while they listen and learn six important language skills: categorizing, telling what items are used for (functions), following complex directions, following conditional directions (if…then), retelling stories (semantic recall) and understanding basic concepts. Appropriate scissors and glue not included.

Sentence Fill-In Fun Deck • $29.95 • Grades 1+

The plumber fixes the house’s ____. Word clues include stairs, wall, pipes or lights. Students look at 56 whimsical illustrations and finish four sentences that describe the picture scenes with a noun, verb, adjective, or adverb. Each of the cards teaches one part of speech. There are 18 noun cards, 10 adjective cards, 18 verb cards and 10 adverb cards. The cards with solid borders have four sentences that are missing the same part of speech. Students complete each of the sentences using one of the four words listed under the picture. Cards with checkered borders offer three answer choices for each of the four sentences. Game ideas are included.

Understanding Sentences Fun Deck • $24.95 • Grades K-6

Kids look at the illustrated card (child throwing a stick to a dog) and listen to or read three sentences to find the one that describes the illustration (The dog is fetching a stick; The dog buries the stick; or The cat fetches a stick). After mastering this set, students move to Set Two where they read one sentence (The fish swims in the cool pond) and search for the matching illustration from a choice of three pictures (duck in a pond, fish in a fish tank, or fish in a pond). Students check their answers using the Super Duper Secret Decoder. 

I got the chance to check out Say and Glue for Language and Listening and Sentence Fill-In Fun Deck which I thought would benefit both my boys.

Sentence Fill-In Fun Deck

The Sentence Fill-In Deck is great because its simple.  You get a package of oversized cards that have words and sentences on them and kids need to fill-in-the-blank.  The cards are double sided and they are laminated so they should last through many uses.  My boys struggle with using the right words and slowing down to think a sentence through so hopefully these cards help them.  I plan on having them write out the sentences so they can practice their writing as well.  Some of them you need to use the illustrations for clues and kids do need to think before rushing through them.  When done, all the cards store neatly in an aluminum box with a latch.

Say and Glue for Language and Listening

Save and Glue for Language & Listening is a workbook full of listening activities where the child needs to listen to the directions and complete the tasks as they are read.  For example it will say “Glue the XX piece on the bottom right.”  So not only do kids get to cut out the pieces but they also get to color them and glue them to the appropriate page.  I think I may make copies of this so I can have both my boys do this at the same time over the summer or I may have them take turns.  There really are so many possibilities for what you can have your kids do for the pages.  I like the simplicity of the pages but how they can really help your child learn so much from it.