An engaging component designed to supplement the curriculum detailed in Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child. This comprehensive resource provides the materials needed to sustain skill instruction, enhance students’ skill mastery, and most important – to refine skill use for dealing with more complex, real-life situations in and outside of the classroom.
The 312-page manual features 600 easy-to-use lesson plans and related activities. Downloadable reproducibles contain over 200 printable forms necessary for implementing the lesson plans. Students learn important strategies such as goal setting, problem solving, impulse control, cooperating, anticipating consequences, and thinking aloud. Activities are provided for at least one week of supplementary instruction for each of the 60 skills in the elementary curriculum.
NOTE:Â It is essential for successful implementation of this curriculum to first have the elementary program book before attempting to utilize other Skillstreaming products.
The manual includes numerous reproducible forms and worksheets available as a download.
How the Program Book and Lesson Plans Work Together
The Skillstreaming in the Elementary School Lesson Plans and Activities manual is an expanded resource designed to reinforce and extend the instruction provided in the program book. It offers 600 ready-to-use lesson plans and related activities, along with over 200 downloadable, printable forms that help students deepen their skill mastery and apply the strategies to more complex, real-life situations both in and outside of the classroom.
The Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child Program Book serves as the core curriculum, providing a comprehensive overview of the Skillstreaming approach and detailed instructions for teaching 60 essential prosocial skills through modeling, role-playing, performance feedback, and generalization.
Shown below is an episode of Prosocially Yours, a podcast produced by Research Press. In this episode, host Elizabeth Hess interviews educator and author, Dr. Ellen McGinnis, about the widely acclaimed Skillstreaming program.
