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School Readiness Series
The School Readiness Series is a parenting program
designed to promote children's school readiness. This two-program series
is a supplemental to the BASIC Parent Program.
The ultimate outcomes are to improve children's school readiness, and to
prevent children from developing conduct problems and academic
underachievement in later school years.
Program One: Child-directed Play: Strengthening Children's Social, Emotional and
Cognitive Skills
The purpose of this multimedia program is to teach parents and other
adults child directed play skills that promote children's social,
emotional and academic school readiness skills. The skills demonstrated
by parents in this videotape show how
parents can encourage their children's development of important peer
friendship skills, such as being cooperative, sharing and helping
friends, waiting, and taking turns. In addition, the program shows how
parents can promote their children's
language and emotion regulation skills by building emotion vocabulary
and strengthening their understanding and expression of feelings.
Finally, parents demonstrate how to encourage their children's academic
school readiness by promoting, not only their understanding of numbers,
colors, and shapes, but also by expanding their attention span and
building their self-confidence in their abilities.
This
videotape or DVD program contains 22 vignettes of adults and children in
candid and unrehearsed play situations. The key concepts for the group
leader to help parents discover in this program include:
Key Concepts:
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Value of parents giving attention and coaching children's
friendly play and social skills with other children
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How to do emotion coaching to build emotional expression
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Building children's self-esteem and creativity through
child-directed play concepts
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Helping children learn to problem solve and sustain their
attention on a focused, cooperative activity
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The modeling principle by parents avoiding the use of critical
statements and demands and substituting positive polite language,
children learn more positive communication
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Building children's language skills through descriptive
commenting strategies
Program Two: Encouraging Social, Emotional, Academic and Problem Solving Skills
through Interactive Reading
The purpose of this multimedia program is to teach parents and other
adults how to promote interactive reading with children in the
early school years. children's reading and language skills are best
fostered through an approach that invites children to interact with the
story and to be actively engaged in the process of talking about the
stories and the pictures in the book. This child-directed, interactive
approach with children increases children's confidence in their
pre-reading skills, promotes their imagination and creativity in story
telling, and helps children understand the association between the
printed word and verbal language. Parents' reading interactively with
children also increases children's interest in books, expands their
expressive and descriptive language skills, and stimulates their
curiosity and love for learning. Interactive reading may seem like such
an
easy and straightforward task that many parents may overlook the
importance of developing good reading skills. These skills, however, are
some of the most important of all for laying the foundation for
children's success at school. This program examines some of the ways
adults can foster children's reading and language skills while at the
same time promoting problem solving and social-emotional understanding.
This videotape or DVD program contains 28 vignettes of adults and children
in candid and unrehearsed situations.
Some of the major concepts presented in this program include:
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Providing positive support for children's reading skills.
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Helping children develop imaginative and creative story telling
through interactive approaches.
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Building children's self-esteem and self-confidence in their reading
ability.
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Making reading enjoyable through interactive reading and letting the
child be the storyteller.
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Using the Reading With CARE building blocks.
Commenting and describing pictures
Asking open-ended questions, such as predicting, What comes next?
Responding with encouragement and praise to children's
efforts
Expanding on what the child says
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Dublin Conference 5/19/2008
May 19th in Dublin Ireland.
Info
and registration on the Archways website
Incredible Years Sample Sessions
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invaluable tool for Group Leaders,
Therapists and Teachers. You'll find these tapes an invaluable
resource for furthering your group leadership skills.
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A Troubleshooting Guide for Parents of Children Aged 2-8 Years
Revised in 2006.
New chapters. This handbook provides parents with guidelines to help
prevent behavior problems from occurring and strategies to
promote children's social and emotional competence. $19.95
Order Form
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in UK: Gazelle Distributors
Sales@gazellebooks.co.uk
White Cross Mills Hightown
Lancaster, LA14XS, UK
Tel: +44(0)152468765
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