Education/Classroom > Kindergarten - Gr. 7
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Learning To Get Along (Ages 4-8) Social Skills
Help children learn, understand, and practice basic social and emotional skills. Real-life situation, diversity, and concrete examples make these read-aloud books appropriate for home and childcare settings, schools, and special education settings. Each book ends with a section of discussion questions, games, and activities adults can use to reinforce what children have learned. Ages 4 to 8.
$243.00
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Learning in Safe Schools
Creating Classrooms Where All Students Belong. This practical and timely edition of a popular book offers the tools teachers need for building safer, more inclusive schools - from a school-wide code of conduct to creating, enforcing, and supporting a behaviour plan.
$24.95
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Brandy Thompson Learn, Grow, Succeed! A Kids Growth Mindset Journal
Set kids up for success with this Growth Mindset journal. The difference between "I'm not an athlete" and "I will get better at sports if I practice" is a Growth Mindset-a way for kids to think more positively about their intelligence and abilities. This is a guided kids journal built around the Growth Mindset, with thought-provoking writing prompts that help kids develop a positive outlook about learning and exploring. It encourages kids to write down what they're feeling, change the way they're thinking, and get excited about succeeding.
$20.95
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Cheri J. Meiners Know and Follow Rules
A child who can’t follow rules is a child who’s always in trouble. This book starts with simple reasons why we have rules: to help us stay safe, learn, be fair, and get along. Then it presents just four basic rules: “Listen,” “Best Work,” “Hands and Body to Myself,” and “Please and Thank You.” The focus throughout is on the positive sense of pride that comes with learning to follow rules. Includes questions and activities adults can use to reinforce the ideas and skills being taught.
$18.50
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Audrey Penn, Ruth E. Harper, Nancy M. Leak The Kissing Hand
Chester, a young raccoon would rather stay at home than go to school. For any child who confronts a difficult situation and for the child who needs reassurance, this wonderful story is a delight to share. Mrs. Raccoon tells her son that she knows a wonderful secret that will make his nights at school seem as warm and cosy as his days at home. She kisses Chester's palm; he feels the kiss rush from his hand to his heart, and she tells him to press his hand to his cheek whenever he gets lonely. This way, the kiss will jump to his face and fill him with toasty warm thoughts.
$25.95
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Joyful Learning
Active and Collaborative Learning in Inclusive Classrooms This accessible resource for K-12 inclusive classrooms helps teachers create an environment for active and collaborative learning that encourages and supports all students, including those who may have marked differences in ability, need, language, culture, and/or learning profile. Promoting the concept that learners with differing abilities can learn side by side, this book illustrates how to use a practical, differentiated approach to help develop every student's abilities. Joyful Learning presents a range of strategies that can be used at both the elementary and secondary levels to engage students in discussion, debate, creative thinking, questioning, and teamwork.
$57.95
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Faye Brownlie, Carole Fullerton, Leyton Schnellert It's All About Thinking: Collaborating to Support All Learners in Mathematics and Science
The authors focus their expertise on the disciplines of mathematics and science, translating principles into practices that help other educators with their students. This book is written by three experienced educators who offer a welcoming and "can-do" approach to the big ideas in math and science education today. In this book you will find insightful ways to teach diverse learners and fully-fleshed lessons crafted using curriculum design frameworks.
$36.00
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Leyton Schnellert, Linda Watson, Nicole Widdess It's All About Thinking: Creating Pathways for All Learners in the Middle Years
This book focuses on teaching and learning in the middle years, transforming principles into practices, and exploring such questions as: How can we help students develop the competencies they need to become successful learners? How can we create pathways to deep learning of important concepts? How can we engage and support diverse learners in inclusive classrooms? Nicole, Linda, and Leyton explore these questions and offer classroom examples to help busy teachers develop communities where all students learn, focusing on the big ideas in middle years education today.
$29.00
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Trudy Ludwig, Patrice Barton The Invisible Boy
Meet Brian, the invisible boy. Nobody ever seems to notice him or think to include him in their group, game, or birthday party . . . until, that is, a new kid comes to class. When Justin, the new boy, arrives, Brian is the first to make him feel welcome. And when Brian and Justin team up to work on a class project together, Brian finds a way to shine. From esteemed author and speaker Trudy Ludwig and acclaimed illustrator Patrice Barton, this gentle story shows how small acts of kindness can help children feel included and allow them to flourish. Any parent, teacher, or counselor looking for material that sensitively addresses the needs of quieter children will find The Invisible Boy a valuable and important resource.
$25.99
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Steven G. Feifer, Douglas A. Delia Toffalo Integrating RTI With Cognitive Neuropsychology: A Scientific Approach to Reading
This book represents the natural symbiosis between RTI and the brain-behavioral principles of cognitive neuropsychology to assist all educators in better diagnosing and remediating reading disorders in children. The primary chapters include: Cognitive Neuropsychology and Five Dirty Words; Overview of RTI; The Phonological Processor; The Orthographic Processor; Subtypes of Dyslexia; The Comprehension Connection; Integrating RTI with Cognitive Neuropsychology; Two Models, Two Cases; and 20 Evidence Based Interventions.
$60.00 $36.00
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M-C Bailey McKenna Instead I...helping students to survive and thrive at school
Helping 5 to 11-Year-Olds Survive And Thrive At School Children face social and emotional challenges each day at school. Many children require direct teaching to learn how to cope with these challenges. This book supports these children and the caring adults who can help. Instead I...offers explicit emotional skill development including: feelings and where they might be occurring in the body, helpful strategies to increase calming in a school setting, social strategies to deal with common day-to-day challenges, and more! Also in this series of five books are But When I...(on focus), So Then I... (on recess), Why Can't I...(on the blues), and What if I I...(on worries). Sold separately. Also available as a set of five books - see Series on the Menu under the Search Bar.
$16.95
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Importance of Being Little
What Young Children Really Need from Grownups This New York Times bestseller provides a pragmatic program to encourage parents and teachers to rethink how and where young children learn best by taking the child's eye view of the learning environment.
$25.99
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Dagmar Geisler I Won't Go With Strangers
The story is about a young girl whose parent is late picking her up from school. As she's waiting, several people offers her a ride home. Some are people she sort of knows, like a neighbor or a handyman working on her house, but the girl asks herself how well does she REALLY know these people? She realizes she doesn't know them well enough, declines the offer of a ride, and waits for her designated person to pick her up. This sensitively narrated story illustrates how clear rules and arrangements can help protect and empower children during an especially vulnerable time of day. The ending includes a prompt for readers to create their own similar "safe" list, and a list of resources for parents.
$23.95
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Kerascoët I Walk with Vanessa: A Story About a Simple Act of Kindness
This simple yet powerful picture book--from a New York Times bestselling husband-and-wife team--tells the story of one girl who inspires a community to stand up to bullying. Inspired by real events, I Walk with Vanessa explores the feelings of helplessness and anger that arise in the wake of seeing a classmate treated badly, and shows how a single act of kindness can lead to an entire community joining in to help. By choosing only pictures to tell their story, the creators underscore the idea that someone can be an ally without having to say a word. With themes of acceptance, kindness, and strength in numbers, this timeless and profound feel-good story will resonate with readers young and old.
$24.99
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Lynn Rummel, Karen Bunting I Remember My Breath: Mindful Breathing for All My Feelings
Visualization and mindful breathing for kids helps children recognize and manage their feelings. Young children have so many feelings. Without accessible emotional self-regulation strategies, children may communicate their big feelings with negative behaviors, bullying, or withdrawing. I Remember My Breath provides an introduction to visualization and mindful breathing for kids as an emotional self-regulation strategy. Mindful breathing focuses on breathing and how emotions feel in the body. Young children learn to identify the emotions they're feeling and use visualization and breathing to calm themselves and manage their feelings. Teaching mindful breathing for kids as an emotional self-regulation strategy also helps children build emotional literacy and body awareness.
$26.50
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I Just Want to Do It My Way! Activity Guide for Teachers
This book is the accompanying teacher's guide to the children's book I Just Want to Do It My Way! by Julia Cook. Included are 24 engaging games and activities to help students in grades K-6 learn the social skills of asking for help and staying on task. The enclosed CD-ROM has pdf files of all the reproducible pages in the activity guide plus extra worksheets.
$28.95
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Julia Cook, Kelsey De Weerd I Just Want to Do It My Way!: My Story About Staying on Task and Asking for Help!
The fifth and final book in Julia Cook's award-winning series, Best Me I Can Be! Follow RJ as he tries to find and finish all of his missing math assignments. With help from his parents and teacher, RJ learns he can save himself a lot of grief if he stays on task and does things the right way!
$17.95
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Julia Cook, Kelsey De Weerd I Just Don't Like The Sound of No!
This wonderfully illustrated book teaches kids a new way to think about accepting no for an answer. It's great for at school and at home.
$17.95
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Julia Cook, Kelsey De Weerd I Can't Believe You Said That!
My Story About Using My Social Filter...or Not!RJ says what he thinks... no matter how it sounds or makes others feel. His mouth is getting him into a lot of trouble. A rude comment at school earned him a detention. An insensitive remark at home earned him a scolding and made his sister cry. RJ doesn't realize his words are wrong. He thinks he's just offering feedback. It's time RJ starts using a social filter when he speaks. With help from his parents, he learns he doesn't have to verbalize every thought that pops into his head. In fact, sometimes the less said the better!
$17.95
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Poppy O'Neill I Can Make New Friends: A Child's Guide to Effective Social Skills
Does your child appear unhappy or lonely at school? Perhaps they have a tendency to think negatively and doubt themselves? Do they worry about what other children think about them? These could be signs that your child is struggling to make friends. This practical guide combines cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and mindfulness methods with simple activities to help your child develop the skills help your child feel comfortable and confident in social settings where they may have the opportunity to make new friends and acquaintances. It's aimed at children ages 6 to 10 because a lot happens in these years that can impact a child's emotional well-being, not just now but for years to come. I Can Make New Friends is full of great information, fun activities, and top tips to help your child feel happy and balanced.
$12.99
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Mo Willems I Am Invited to a Party!
An Elephant and Piggie Book In I Am Invited to a Party! Piggie is invited to her first party. She doesn't know what to wear, though, so she asks her best friend Elephant for help. Elephant's advice is odd to say the least, so Piggie will try on all sorts of zany outfits before finally arriving at the party for a hilarious surprise.
$14.99
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Julia Cook, Kelsey de Weerd I Just Don't Like the Sound of No!: Activity Guide for Teachers: Classroom Ideas for Teaching the Skills of Accepting No for an Answer and Disagreeing Appropriately
Author Julia Cook has created activities for K-6 classrooms that teach kids the important social skills of how to accept No for an answer and how to disagree appropriately. Included in the Activity Guide for Teachers are games, worksheets, reflection questions, coloring pages, and suggestions on how to incorporate skill learning into classroom lessons as well as homework assignments. Teachers can learn how to run their own Say YES to NO clubs for students, and the guide offers praise coupons to use when recognizing children who use either of the skills correctly. The enclosed CD-ROM has pdf files of all of the reproducible pages in the activity guide plus extra worksheets to use.
$28.95
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Benjamin Farrey-Latz I Can Learn Social Skills!: Poems About Getting Along, Being A Good Friend, And Growing Up
Teach and foster social skills with this lively collection of poems for children. Strong social skills are the key to getting along, succeeding in school and at home, and enjoying time with others. Yet for many kids, greetings, eye contact, playing, competing, managing emotions, apologizing, and other essential social skills feel unnatural. One thing that is natural is the appeal of rhyming poems: they are fun to read aloud and easy to remember. These poems for children teach how to improve social skills with a lighthearted touch. Photos showing diverse kids accompany the book's playful, often humorous language. Activities and lessons at the back of the book help adults guide children in learning social skills.
$18.50
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Shinsuke Yoshitake I Can Explain
Nose picking? Nail biting? Wiping dirty hands on clothes? Before you call them "bad manners," consider the compelling reasons that may be behind these behaviors. For instance, jumping on the bed is great practice for when the road becomes a trampoline! Not being able to sit still might actually be the chair's fault! And what better way to train for the International Straw Chewing Contest than by chewing on straws? This hilarious picture book unpacks the reasons behind a variety of relatable behaviors.
$26.99
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