School Readiness Skills Bundle

This bundle contains five first-person stories about trying difficult tasks, walking down hallways, raising a hand, waiting a turn and using a tissue. The supplied material also includes instructional guides, compact rule summaries and a Walking Down the Hallway quiz booklet.

Publisher identified in the materials: Special Learning.

Companion guide and quiz booklet credits: The Special Learning Clinical Team and Tabitha Kirby. These credits apply to the named instructional guide and hallway quiz booklet.

Material context: The delivered package includes stories and companion teaching material from 2012 and 2013. The full stories and compact rule summaries use different formats; the Raising My Hand summary repeats earlier wording under two headings.

Trying When It’s Hard describes stopping to think, attempting a task and asking for help. Waiting My Turn uses a talk, choose and do sequence for finding another activity while waiting.

Raising My Hand follows decide, raise, wait and talk; Walking Down the Hallway addresses pace, personal space and saying “Excuse me.” Using a Tissue describes finding a tissue, turning away, blowing the nose, disposal and hand cleaning.

The instructional guides discuss reading, coloring, sequencing and role-play activities. The hallway supplement contains basic and advanced quizzes, an answer key, a token board prompt and token assembly instructions.

What is inside this resource?

• Trying When It’s Hard: pausing, trying and asking for help
• Walking Down the Hallway: pace, space, passing and quizzes
• Raising My Hand: decide, raise, wait and talk
• Waiting My Turn: talk, choose another activity and do it
• Using a Tissue: finding, using and disposing of a tissue, then cleaning hands

Material details: 19 PDF files, containing 248 pages in total including front matter. This is a digital download; purchase does not include printed copies.

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