Life Skills

Authors: Laurie Eckenrode, Pat Fennell, Kathy Hearsey, Beth ReynoldsTasks Galore – Book 2 (Red) – For the Real WorldThis is a valuable tool for preparing your older students, adolescents and adults for independence in the home, school, community and/or workplace. The introduction section describes a process for developing and teaching functional goals. Forty-three colourful photo pages present task ideas in these categories:Domestic SkillsVocational SkillsIndependent Living SkillsJob Sites &...

Authors: Laurie Eckenrode, Pat Fennell, Kathy Hearsey, Beth ReynoldsTasks Galore: Book 3 (Blue): Making Groups MeaningfulThis book aids teachers, parents and therapists in applying structured teaching techniques within classroom groups, school specials and even parties!Designing meaningful home and school group activities involve integrating IEP goals, individualising structure and communication and teaching rules.Tasks Galore Publishing Inc. was created to provide parents and professionals with...

Authors: Laurie Eckenrode, Pat Fennell, Kathy Hearsey, Beth ReynoldsTasks Galore – Book 4 (Green) – Let’s Play – Structured Steps to Social Engagement and Symbolic PlayTasks Galore Let’s Play, the fourth book in the popular resource series for parents, teachers, and therapists, utilises play as the program for learning. There is more and more evidence that direct teaching of play skills can increase young children’s symbolic understanding and, thus, have an impact on their imitation, language,...

Authors: Laurie Eckenrode, Pat Fennell, Kathy Hearsey, Beth ReynoldsTasks Galore: Book 5 (Grey): Literature-Based Thematic Units (includes accompanying boardbook: I’m Hungry, I’m Hungry, What shall I do?)The fifth book in the popular resource series for parents, teachers, and therapists, integrates instruction across core curriculum areas by utilising multi-sensory learning.Using the accompanying storybook as a guide for creating literature-based thematic units, the authors have designed...

Author: James AndersonA Growth Mindset is the understanding that we can change our most basic characteristics such as our talents and abilities. But achieving that Growth requires more than simply the right mindset, it requires the right actions. In The Agile Learner, you’ll discover how to change your students’ mindsets by moving them along the Mindset Continuum. Importantly, you’ll learn how to engage students in the processes and behaviours that achieve growth and the development of new...

By Lori Ann CopelandThis companion guide provides a series of 10 lesson topics with more than 50 activities and handouts to help children learn self-regulation and impulse control skills. The program features fun and memorable lessons with activities that teach concepts and skills children can apply to their day-to-day lives. These lessons can be presented to children in classrooms and small groups or to individuals who may need more intensive help with self-control issues. The digital files...

Authors: Leah Kuypers and Elizabeth Sautter Adapted from the colourful 2-page layout in The Regulation Station storybook, this 24” x 18” poster summarises lessons taught throughout The Zones of Regulation 2-Storybook Set. The poster is an in-the-moment reminder of the four steps needed to (1) recognise your feelings, (2) identify your Zone, (3) choose a tool, and (4) use the tool to help regulate your feelings experienced across different situations. Use the poster at home, school, or clinic to...

By Jeanetta Jones MillerStudent-centred classrooms make it possible for schools to fulfil their best and most enduring promise: to give students a fair chance to grow up literate, open-minded, and prepared to succeed. With this resource as your guide, you will learn six teaching practices to help you leave behind one-size-fits-all lessons, tests, and grades in favour of a student-centred approach that is interactive, individualised and rigorous.Features:Learn how to use the two essential...

Ages: 5-11Pages: 152Format: 2-storybook set (shrink-wrapped)Published: 2021Authors: Leah Kuypers and Elizabeth Sautter The two children’s books in the The Zones of Regulation Storybook Set were created to provide an easy, kid friendly way to kick off and support lessons for children ages 5-11 years old, while using the The Zones of Regulation curriculum (book). The storybooks are meant to be used in conjunction with lessons from the curriculum book, The Zones of Regulation .The Road to...

Authors: Leah Kuypers, Elizabeth SautterLearning to self-regulate our Zones is hard, serious work that takes time and lots of practice. Tools to Try Cards for Kids includes 4”x 6” tool cards and is an easy, user-friendly way to introduce over 50 self-regulation strategies to kids ages 5–10 and empower them to make choices toward figuring out what works best for them. For best teaching practice, the strategy card deck should be used in tandem with lessons introducing tools for use with Zones from...

Authors: Leah Kuypers, Elizabeth SautterNeed ideas to help tweens and teens learn to regulate? Discover this strategy card deck in The Zones of Regulation series — specifically for tweens and teens. Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens is a multi-sensory strategy card deck to help explore, choose, and practice 50 regulation tools at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings. The 2-sided cards are divided into 5 categories that describe strategies to focus, calm, think, move,...

By Paula Cox and Farra CriswellTherapeutic Interventions Using Non-Therapeutic Games is a creative twist on the traditional practice of using games in therapy. This book takes games that everyone knows and loves and gives a concrete hands-on example of behavioural strategies for children from Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 3. The sessions and activity pages can be used by anyone who is in the role of helping children determine appropriate behaviours.The sections within this book are divided by...

Author: Sue CostelloeGet your students thinking creatively, critically and reflectively. This series offers units that progressively help them to develop and strengthen these higher order processes. The emphasis is on inquiry learning, prompting your students to explore issues like personal identity, goals and direction, and relating to others. A wide range of thinking strategies and graphic organisers are employed. Book 1 caters for ages 5 - 6. Book 2 & 3 are also available.

Author: Sue CostelloeGet your students thinking creatively, critically and reflectively. This series offers units that progressively help them to develop and strengthen these higher order processes. The emphasis is on inquiry learning, prompting your students to explore issues like personal identity, goals and direction, and relating to others. A wide range of thinking strategies and graphic organisers are employed. Book 2 caters for ages 7-8. Books 1 and 3 are also available.

Author: Sue CostelloeGet your students thinking creatively, critically and reflectively. This series offers units that progressively help them to develop and strengthen these higher order processes. The emphasis is on inquiry learning, prompting your students to explore issues like personal identity, goals and direction, and relating to others. A wide range of thinking strategies and graphic organisers are employed. Book 3 caters for ages 9-11. Books 1 and 2 are also available.

Author: Sue CostelloeGet your students thinking creatively, critically and reflectively. This series offers units that progressively help them to develop and strengthen these higher order processes. The emphasis is on inquiry learning, prompting your students to explore issues like personal identity, goals and direction, and relating to others. A wide range of thinking strategies and graphic organisers are employed. Book 1 caters for ages 5-6. Book 2 caters for ages 7-8.Book 3 caters for ages...

Ages: 5-18Format: Cards 4x6Published: 2021Authors: Leah Kuypers Elizabeth SautterWhether you’ve been teaching The Zones of Regulation curriculum for years or just hearing about it for the first time, these regulation strategy card decks for two different developmental age groups — children ages 5-10 and tweens and teens ages 11-18 — are a powerful addition to your social emotional learning and teaching toolkit. These decks are meant to be used in tandem with The Zones curriculum and pair well...

Ages: 10+Format: Bundle with GamesPublished: 2016Authors: Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke, Dominique Baudry, Linda K. MurphyThe social mind is dynamic. It changes and evolves continuously throughout the tween and teen years as kids begin to forge a stronger sense of self. But as they age, the social world also expands in its complexity. Expectations for how a child makes sense of the social world, socially responds, and behaves seem to suddenly shift and transform as more sophisticated...