Students enrolled in this group are often ready to learn the following 3 cores social skills:
- Emotional Regulation (recognize, label, and regulate their feelings demonstrate empathy toward others, read
others emotions and body language). - Listening and Talking ( greets, initiates talking, make comments, ask questions, listens and follows rules in
games, share ideas, ask to talk, relates ideas during games) participate cooperative play, resolve con of the
classroom. - Building Friendship (participate cooperative play, resolve conflicts with peers, decide who to play with, share
ideas, problems solve simple conflicts, learns to follow rules, share and turn take, apply imagination)
Objective Outline
Listening and Talking
Asking and Answering questions
Starting a conversation
Expanding conversation/commenting
Joining a conversation/Sharing Ideas
Following Directions
Ignoring
Learning active listening
Building Friendship
Inviting someone to play
Joining ongoing play
Giving peers directions
Accepting directions from peers
Using imagination
Being a good sport
Accepting change in play
Standing one’s ground
Transitioning from play to learning
Body Language/Emotional Regulation
Reading 7 universal body language
Reading 7 facial expressions
Expressing one’s feelings
Understanding other’s feelings