K - 3 Learning Pages: Resources for Kindergarten to Grade 3 teachers
List Serve - Web Resources
Social - Social Skills Also see Friendship
Affective Lesson Plans and Resources - http://www.cloudnet.com/~edrbsass/affectiveeducation.html Scroll past the advertisement lines and you will find close to 100 links in the various sections of affective learning.
Carol's Favorite - 2005
Assessing Young Children’s Social Competence - http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/disorders/ChildSocialSkills.html Includes a checklist
BBC - Should Schools Teach Manners? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/4318504.stm Interesting to read people’s comments
Bullying PowerPoints - http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/wes/webquests_themes/bullying/bullying.html Created by gr. 7 kids for younger students.
Character Education Partnership: http://www.character.org/site/c.gwKUJhNYJrF/b.993253/k.CB9C/Home.htm Listing of 11 principles of character development
Education World - http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson172.shtml Elaine Lindy, creator of the Absolutely Whootie Web site, shares three favorite folktales that will get kids thinking and talking about the importance of cooperation!
Encouraging Social Skills in Young Children: Tips to Share with Parents - http://www.humsci.auburn.edu/parent/socialskills.html A fairly condensed article
Framework of Limits - http://www.lifeseminars.com/courses/files/limits.pdf A great pdf file to use as a resource
Getting Along Together: Developing Social Competence in Young Children - http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/providers/getting.html Good ideas here
Helping Young Children Deal With Anger - http://www.athealth.com/Consumer/issues/childsanger.html Background and steps
Laura Candler: Social Skills - http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/socialsk.htm Gives specific coaching/teaching ideas
LD Online: Teaching Friendship Skills - http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/teaching_techniques/childlit_socskills.html Includes scripts
Manners - http://fekids.com/img/kln/flash/DontGrossOutTheWorld.swf A flash presentation about table manners.
Ottawa Carleton School District: Safe and Caring Schools Component - http://www.ocdsb.edu.on.ca/General_Info/Safe_Caring_Schools/components.html#Elementary Complete with lesson plans
Precious Children: Teaching Young Children to Resist Bias - http://www.pbs.org/kcts/preciouschildren/diversity/read_teaching.html NAEYC reprinting
Respect - http://eqi.org/respect.htm A concise article with ideas
Rude Busters - http://www.rudebusters.com/etikid.htm This etiquette page has links to others written within the article - a great read
Skills for Social Problem Solving - http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Vp1XwKdLNA4J:www.actagainstviolence.com/materials/handouts/TeacherSPS2.pdf+teaching+prosocial+skills+to+young+children&hl=en Brief listing of some basics required for social skill development
Social Skills - http://www.angelfire.com/ky2/socialskills/ Some specific guidelines, and links to other sites
Strategies for Teaching Important Social Skills to Young Children - http://www.dbpeds.org/articles/detail.cfm?TextID=132 Workable ideas
Teaching Respect: Aboriginals - http://www.ammsa.com/classroom/CLASSEDDOS.html A great list to refresh your thinking!
Teaching Social Skills to Kid’s Who Don’t Have Them - http://sq.4mg.com/TeachSocSkills.htm Long list of ideas
Teaching Social Skills: PowerPoint - http://www.aea11.k12.ia.us/spedresearch/res1003/I-CASE.ppt A PowerPoint to use with staff or parents
Teaching the Skills of Peace - http://www.4children.org/news/501teach.htm Positive solutions
Teachnology: Respect – How to Teach It - http://www.teach-nology.com/tutorials/teaching/respect/ Scroll past the ads for a great little article
What Makes Kids Care? http://www.apa.org/pi/pii/care.html Thought provoking article
List Serve Mailing - October 29, 2005