Description
🏠 Equipping Minds Colored Houses Card Bundle
🧠 Why This Bundle Works
Together, the Beginner and Xtreme levels form a developmental continuum:
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Same familiar representations
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Increasing cognitive coordination
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No new content — only deeper thinking
This allows learners to grow within one system, building confidence first and then capacity.
👨👩👧 Perfect For
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Families and homeschoolers
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Educators and interventionists
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Therapists and clinicians
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Multi-age learning environments
⏱ Recommended Use
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10 minutes a day
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5 days a week
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Use alongside other Equipping Minds games, workbooks, and activities
Beginner Level + Xtreme Level
| Feature | 🟩 Beginner Level – Colored Houses | 🔶 Xtreme Level – Colored Houses |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Build foundational cognitive readiness through play | Strengthen advanced executive coordination under cognitive load |
| Primary Focus | Attention, basic working memory, categorization, language | Cognitive flexibility, interference control, memory updating, reasoning |
| Cognitive Demand | Low → Moderate (scaffolded) | Moderate → High (dense, multi-representational) |
| Card Design | Simple Outside Houses → Interior Houses | Multi-layered houses with multiple symbols, words, and attributes |
| Representations Used | Colors, animals, numbers, letters | Colors, animals, numbers, letters, words, symbols, directions |
| Skill Progression | Sorting → matching → recall → early flexibility | Inhibition → rule switching → executive coordination |
| Language Support | Naming, describing, early categorization | Verbal reasoning, self-talk, metacognition |
| Learner Level | Emerging learners, younger students, senior adults | Older students, gifted learners, adolescents, adults |
| Adaptability | Highly adaptable for non-verbal and verbal learners | Ideal for learners ready for cognitive challenge |
| Group Size | 1–1 or small group | 1–1 or small group |
| Mindset & Engagement | Confidence-building, success-oriented | Perseverance, “struggling well,” sustained focus |
| Time Commitment | 5–10 minutes per session | 10–15 minutes per session |
| Instructional Support | Includes directions with 9 ways to play | Includes advanced play variations |
| Connection to EMCDC | Introduces the EMCDC framework | Extends EMCDC into higher-level executive processing |
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