Social stories are a successful way to increase positive behaviors and decrease negative behaviors! This resource combines two effective strategies - social stories and adapted books! These books are interactive, engaging, and visually-based! They provide response options for appropriate behaviors so students can demonstrate their understanding of each concept. These mini stories can be used before an anticipated event or read on a regular basis. This is a collection of 4 Social Story Adapted Books about common problems related to communication and social skills. The stories included are: - I Don't Interrupt - Asking Politely - Commenting - Good Listener

Four different card sets containing different emotions. The sets include: 18 cards showing different emotions with photographs of girls’ faces 18 cards showing different emotions with photographs of boys’ faces 12 cards with different emoticons 9 cards with girl clipart faces Plus 2 A4 sheets of black and white emoticons to use for activities with the children.

Christmas Sensory Story - The Tale of Rudolph - KS3 SEN PMLD Group of eight Curriculum Topic: Literacy – Christmas – Sensory Story Group Activity

This resource was prepared for a PMLD KS3 SEN class of eight students. Curriculum Topic: Wildlife - Endangered Species For this powerpoint story you will need: A toy bumble bee (a fun project could be to create your very own bee toy/s in an Art lesson) 2-3 garden flowerpots (more or less depending on the size of the group) 2-3 toy balls (If you can only resource one then students could pass it to each other) A selection of coins (this is a nice numeracy opportunity) Activate a fan using a switch box and jelly switch. For more able students, they can press the on/off button on the fan and explore different wind strengths Bubbles! Disco lights, if you don’t have these fairy lights can work or torches with different coloured plastics/acetates stuck to the top of them to create different colours Chocolate spread on a spoon as a taster - or real ice cream if it’s a hot day can be great! (Ensure that you check for allergies/nil by mouth before offering) Vibrating massage tool or vibrating snake (this offers a wonderful sensory experience) Pharell’s ‘Happy’ song, or an agreed class favourite song and the disco lights - have a dance, have a twirl! A dark sheet to place over students, indicating night time This sensory story was delivered once a week for a half term and by the final couple of weeks students were beginning to anticipate elements of the story. A nice small group activity. Personal Development: Communication and Interaction Social, Emotional and Behavioural Cognition and Learning Physical and Sensory

This presentation should be taught after reading Chapter 1 of Private Peaceful. It is to be taught alongside Engage Education’s Private Peaceful Lesson 1 worksheets. The presentation is used as a speaking and listening exercise where pupils are asked to say what they have learned about the chapter’s characters and plot.

Designed to calm your class and improve concentration, learning and behaviour. Contains - Professionally produced 6 minute guided mindfulness/meditation visualization MP3 audio (320 kbps) - designed to calm children and refocus their minds ready for learning. Great before maths or after a wet break time! - 6 minute (music only) relaxation MP3 audio (320 kbps) These powerful tools are only just beginning to be utilised in the primary school classroom. Be amongst the first to introduce audio as a teaching resource to improve learning, mindfulness and behaviour. Music licensed from copyright owner for this product. Spoken word copyright tftf.

This is an hour-long lesson which has been the most effective lesson I have taught on the importance of listening skills and respect for each other. Every time I have ran this lesson, either at the beginning as an introduction or during the term, I have seen a marked improvement in listening skills and behaviour. This lesson introduces the importance of listening and understanding others; it does it through hands-on, practical group work. This comes in the form of a series of speaking and listening exercises, each introducing the students to common problems teachers find. - Exercise One: playing with pens, no eye contact. - Exercise Two: no reaction. - Exercise Three: losing attention, short attention spans. - Exercise Four: talking over each other. I always encourage the students to vocalise their thoughts and feelings after they have done each exercise; by experiencing what we deal with, albeit small-scale, it makes them much more receptive to being told to be quiet or that their behaviour is not respectful. It is also a lot of fun! I usually time each exercise, aiming for about 2 minutes on each, but with some the students may run out of things to say very quickly. It is important that they only see their numbered cards (rather than the whole set) as the whole exercise is set on them not knowing what everyone else has. I have included both the PowerPoint and the cards used - I usually print off the cards and have a set per group of three in an envelope. The final part of the lesson is to get them to vocalise why your subject is valuable. Getting them to decide why they should study your subject gets them engaged really quickly. In terms of getting them to also tell you what they like doing and what they don't like really gives you a feel for the group as a whole.

Character Education - Let's build character and improve behaviour! Character education is very important, teach your students about positive character traits and improve their behaviour in the process. This easy to implement program is perfect for classes (or students) that struggle with social skills. Focus on one character trait per week, use the posters, bracelets and awards to motivate your students. Watch how their behaviour improves and their emotional intelligence grows! Included: 35 Character education definition posters (colour and black & white). 35 Character education bracelets (colour and black & white). Character education goal and star of the week posters & flashcards (colour and black & white). 35 Character education print and go awards PDF (colour and black & white). 35 Character education type in name and date awards PPT (colour black & white) Character education awards checklist. Character education traits: Attentiveness Boldness Compassion Creativity Dependability Determination Endurance Enthusiasm Fairness Faithfulness Fearlessness Friendliness Generosity Gentleness Gratitude Helpfulness Honesty Humility Humour Ingenuity Kindness Loyalty Neatness Obedience Optimism Patience Politeness Punctuality Respect Responsibility Self-control Sincerity Spontaneity Thoughtfulness Wisdom Please contact me if you have any questions or suggestions. Happy teaching! Lindy du Plessis duplessislindy@gmail.com © L du Plessis 2016. Single classroom license. This product may not be shared or placed on the internet.

As teachers, we all have strategies to engage children in their learning. Unfortunately, all classes are different and sometimes we need to change the strategy. Focusing children on a whole range of achievements, no matter how small, is beneficial for the whole class. The Learning Wolverine focuses on more than academic achievements. The focus is on how the child learns, not what they learn. Each achievement has its own merit as the child comes closer to being a Learning Wolverine. The video is the main part of the strategy, which can be used to initiate discussion about the best learning environment. There is also a follow up poster and child planner sheet.

As a part of our literacy campaign, these Power Points were developed to be bright, colourful, informative and student friendly. This was an informal and un-intrusive way of communicating and helped improve new vocabulary and literacy in a EBD school setting and has ben adapted for all users on TES! zbaboony@newlandsacademy.org