More Tools for Teaching Social Skills in School: Grades 3-12

Use this workbook to introduce important social skills to students from 3rd to 12th grade. Incorporate the suggested activities with your exisiting language arts, math, science, phys ed or social studies curricula. Teach children social skills to give them positive behavioural choices, choices that are healthier for them, for you and for your classroom. Lesson plans are written in an easy-to-follow format with talking points to help you define and expain a skill and guide students through an activity. Each lesson has Teacher Notes describing the relevance of each skill and a Proactive Teaching Interaction to use as a script. At the end of each lesson is a Think Sheet for students with questions about how to use a skill in different settings and situations. Role-play scenarios and classroom activities also are provided so students can practice each skill's behavioural steps. This behaviour mangement resource includes a CD-ROM with reproducible worksheets and skill posters you can hang in classrooms and common areas to remind students of each step to a skill. Basic social skills include being prepared for class, listening to others, following instructions, and completing homework. More complex social skills include expressng empathy, going to an assembly, accepting defeat or loss, using anger control strategies, choosing appropriate friends and resisting negative peer pressure.… (more)