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The Worst Day of My Life Ever! Activity Guide for Teachers: Classroom Ideas for Teaching the Skills of Listening and Following Instructions Volume 1 (Best Me I Can Be)

The Worst Day of My Life Ever! Activity Guide for Teachers: Classroom Ideas for Teaching the Skills of Listening and Following Instructions Volume 1 (Best Me I Can Be)

Current price: $19.95
Publication Date: July 1st, 2011
Publisher:
Boys Town Press
ISBN:
9781934490235
Pages:
32

Description

Looking for clever and entertaining as well as effective ways to teach your students how to listen and follow instructions?

To help reinforce the social skills lessons in her children's book, The WORST Day of My Life EVER , author Julia Cook has created 24 engaging games and activities teachers can use in their K through 6 classrooms.

In addition to exercising their listening and following instructions skills, students must observe, think, describe, write, and work together to complete these challenging activities. This guide offers a variety of activities ranging from coloring pages and mazes for younger children to games with more complex directions and homework worksheets for older students.

The book provides teacher instructions, offers lists of materials when needed and activity variations and extensions, worksheets, and praise coupons you can use to reward students who demonstrate good listening and following instructions skills. The activity guide also includes a digital content link for access to reproducible pages to use.

You will find the ideas in this guide a great way to make the lessons RJ learns come alive for the students in your classroom

About the Author

Julia Cook, a former school counselor and teacher, has written many books on behavior and health for children. She has received the Association for Educational Publishers Distinguished Achievement Award, and her books have been honored by the National Parenting Center and Mom's Choice Awards. Her storybooks show children how to make a positive difference in their lives by teaching them lifelong problem-solving skills. Her Best Me I Can Be series of children's books teaches essential social skills, such as Listening and Following Instructions. Julia's ultimate goal is to make a positive difference in the lives of children, parents and educators by teaching lifelong problem-solving skills to kids.