Social Skills Activities for Kids

Author: Natasha Daniels
Publisher: Rockridge Press
ISBN: 9781641522960
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Learn Everyday Social Skills and Have Fun, Too! What are the Dos and Don'ts for making and keeping friends? How can you decode body language clues? What's the best way to keep a conversation going? Just like learning multiplication tables, social skills don't come naturally--every child has to learn them. Luckily, this book makes mastering social skills super fun with 50 awesome activities. Social Skills Activities for Kids gives children the confidence to successfully navigate social situations at home, school, and the world in between. From keeping the conversation ball moving to learning to compromise to practicing good table manners, these engaging activities help kids develop and use their social skills super powers. Inside Social Skills Activities for Kids, you'll find: Life Lessons--Kids learn how to handle everyday social situations like communicating with peers and adults, using and interpreting body language, reading social cues, and more. 50 Interactive Activities--Games, fill-in-the-blank exercises, and reflective entries keep kids learning and engaged. Real Scenarios--Includes up-to-date topics like bullying and using social media. Get the courage to be your very best self with Social Skills Activities for Kids.

Social Skills Matter!, Grades PK - 2

Author: Christine Schwab
Publisher: Key Education Publishing
ISBN: 1483809293
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
Help your students learn how to communicate effectively, make good choices, and practice appropriate behavior with Social Skills Matter! This book includes reproducible mini-books for children to assemble, color, read, and make their own. Each mini-book focuses on a different facet of important social skills including cooperative play, learning about feelings, communication, school-day behavior, manners, and behavior management. Mastery of these essential social skills can be a factor in determining a child’s future success, social acceptance, and happiness. Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children.

Social Skills for Kids

Author: Keri K. Powers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1507215762
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Help your children develop essential social skills—including groups, one-on-one interactions, and virtual communication—with these 150 easy, fun activities to teach your kids how to socially succeed. From taking turns to making eye contact to staying engaged during conversations, developing appropriate social skills is an important factor for kids to be able to succeed in school and life in general. But how can you tell if your child is really making progress while you read the same stories, have the same conversations, and chaperone the same playdates? The answer is to add some variety to your child’s daily activities with these 150 exercises specially designed to keep your child (and their friends) entertained, all while teaching them effective social skills. In Social Skills for Kids, you’ll learn everything you need to know about how social skills develop in children and what you can do to support their growth. In this book, you’ll find games to encourage them in group settings, activities that you (or another caregiver) can do alone with your child, and ways to make the most of virtual interactions for social skill development. So whether you’re looking for new activities to entertain a few friends during playtime, searching for fun (and educational) games you and your child can play together, or even interested in ways to include people you can’t physically visit, Social Skills for Kids has all the tools you need to help your child develop the social skills they need to succeed.

Social Skills Activities for Special Children

Author: Darlene Mannix
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118963466
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 460

Book Description
A flexible, ready-to-use program to help special students in grades K-5 learn appropriate ways to behave among others The revised and updated second edition of this bestselling resource book provides ready-to-use lessons--complete with reproducible worksheets--to help children become aware of acceptable social behavior and develop proficiency in acquiring basic social skills. The book is organized around three core areas crucial to social development in the primary grades: Accepting Rules and Authority at School, Relating to Peers, and Developing Positive Social Skills. Each lesson places a specific skill within the context of real-life situations, giving teachers a means to guide students to think about why the social skill is important. The hands-on activity that accompanies each lesson helps students to work through, think about, discuss, and practice the skill in or outside of the classroom.

Social Skills Games and Activities for Kids With Autism

Author: Wendy Ashcroft
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000503291
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
Social Skills Games and Activities for Kids With Autism provides complete instructions for using fun, engaging games and activities to teach social skills to children with autism spectrum disorders. The games include directions for assessing skills such as asking for toys, getting the attention of others, reading nonverbal gestures, understanding perspectives, and cooperating to solve problems. Using the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis, the book takes teachers through motivating, prompting, shaping, modeling, and reinforcing social skills while playing the games and helping students learn to participate in other activities such as demonstrating the social skill in role plays and the natural environment. Perfect for teachers struggling to help their students with autism learn to interact socially with their peers, these games are sure to become a much-loved part of students' daily routines.

Easy Activities for Building Social Skills

Author: Nancy Leber
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780439163538
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
"Dozens of effective classroom strategies and activities to teach cooperation and communication, manners and respect, positive behavior and more!"-- cover.

Ready-To-Use Social Skills Lessons and Activities for Grades 7 - 12

Author: Ruth Weltmann Begun
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0876284756
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 247

Book Description
This unique Library gives teachers and specialists a stimulating, systematic way to develop positive social behaviors in students of all abilities, grades 4-12. Included are over 125 tested lessons and reproducible worksheets in two separately printed, self-contained volumes, each tailored to the developmental needs of students at a particular grade level, 4-6 or 7-12. For easy use, the lessons in each volume follow a uniform format, including titles, behavioral objective, and simple 8-step lesson plan. The lesson activities and worksheets are based on real-life situations and help build students' self-esteem, self-control, and respect for the rights of others.

Social Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs

Author: Darlene Mannix
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119827477
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description
A practical and hands-on collection of worksheets to help students learn social skills In the newly revised Third Edition of Social Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs, veteran educator Darlene Mannix delivers an invaluable and exciting collection of over 150 ready-to-use worksheets designed to help adolescents with special needs build social skills, understand themselves, and interact effectively with others. Organized into three parts, the book covers lessons in self-understanding and personality traits, basic social skills, and social skills application. It also contains: 30% brand-new material and thoroughly updated content that includes new lessons and technology updates Updated topics, including safe social media navigation, leisure situation social skills, and cyberbullying Stand-alone lessons and worksheets that offer excellent foundations for individual teachings Perfect for special educators, general education teachers, and school counselors and psychologists, Social Skills Activities for Secondary Students with Special Needs is also an indispensable resource for the parents of special needs children and teachers in training.

Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 4 - 6

Author: Ruth Weltmann Begun
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0876284748
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 1-3

Author: Ruth Weltmann Begun
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 087628473X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 311

Book Description
In the early primary school years, children need to learn certain social skills to be successful in school and out. Some children have already mastered handling disappointment and working out differences with others, but many children struggle with the social skills that are expected of them. To help students of all skill levels, the author of the highly praised Ready-To-Use Violence Prevention Skills Lessons & Activities for Elementary Students presents this practical book that gives teachers and specialists a stimulating, systematic way to develop positive social behaviors in students through awareness, discussion, and rehearsing new behaviors. It offers over 50 detailed lesson plans and practice worksheets based on real-life situations. These age-appropriate lessons help children build self-esteem, self-control, respect for the rights of others, and a sense of responsibility for one's own actions. Printed in a spiral-bound 8 1/4" x 11" format, the pages can be easily photocopied for use by the whole class or for individuals as the need to work on a particular skill arises.