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You have to reach kids before you can teach them—Whole Body Listening Larry, The Zones of Regulation, You Are a Social Detective! and Superflex are wonderful allies in reaching kids with a cast of colorful characters who engage kids in learning to self-regulate.
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Whole Body Listening Larry
Whole Body Listening Articles
NEW Zones of Regulation: Free Downloadable Thinksheet
NEW Zones of Regulation: Tools to Try Cards for Kids
Regulation Strategies to Focus, Calm, Think, Move, Breathe, and Connect
Learning to self-regulate our Zones is hard, serious work that takes time and lots of practice. Tools to Try Cards for Kids includes 4”x 6” tool cards and is an easy, user-friendly way to introduce over 50 self-regulation strategies to kids ages 5–10 and empower them to make choices toward figuring out what works best for them. For best teaching practice, the strategy card deck should be used in tandem with lessons introducing tools for use with Zones from Chapter 4 in the curriculum book, The Zones of Regulation, as well as paired with other related products, such as Navigating The Zones.
The Zones of Regulation Articles
NEW You are a Social Detective: Free Downloadable Thinksheets
Social Detective FLEX Camp Mini Curriculum
Social Smarts & Science Smarts Thinksheet
Here are a few examples of the difference between the social smarts and science smarts.
This Thinksheet supports concepts taught in You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition.
Superflex Takes on Rock Brain & Build Your Own Unthinkable Detector
Build Your Own Unthinkable Detector Thinksheet
Superflex Takes On Brain Eater and the Team of Unthinkables
Build Your Home Library
In this adorable storybook, Larry teaches listening skills with thought-provoking rhymes that teach concrete, structured, and systematic lessons in a kid-friendly way. When his peers demonstrate that they aren’t listening, Larry helps them understand how this impacts others, and to support the thoughts and feelings of others by listening with every part of their body.
Learn moreIn this adorable storybook, Larry teaches listening skills with thought-provoking rhymes that teach concrete, structured, and systematic lessons in a kid-friendly way. When his peers demonstrate that they aren’t listening, Larry helps them understand how this impacts others, and to support the thoughts and feelings of others by listening with every part of their body.
Learn moreThe social world is a big, complicated place that requires us to constantly figure out hidden rules in situations to help us make sense of how we are all interpreting and responding to each other’s actions and reactions. Expanded and revised, this 2nd edition provides an all-new structured approach to observation, illustrations that reflect a broader range of inclusion and diversity in characters, and lessons for deeper learning which include activities and practice pages for readers as they learn to observe a situation, the people, and what’s happening—a skill set that can then be used everywhere they go, whether it’s at home, school, or within the community. Interventionists will find specific teaching tips and an expanded glossary of Social Thinking Vocabulary and concepts to guide young readers in exploring tools to help them make smart guesses to ultimately figure out the social emotional chain reaction.
Learn moreA choice rich, portable, strategy card deck to help kids ages 5-10 metacognitively explore and practice over 50 self-regulation tools at home, in school, or in therapeutic and community settings. The 4" x 6" two-sided strategy cards are divided into 5 categories that describe strategies to focus, calm, think, move, breathe, and connect developed from lessons in the popular The Zones of Regulation book. Each strategy card displays a visual graphic on one side that illustrates how to use the tool and, on the reverse, describes concrete steps for using the tool effectively. Tools to Try Cards for Kids is a kid-friendly, visual tool designed for use with The Zones of Regulation curriculum and other Zones products.
Learn moreThis unique cooperative game expands on the teachings of The Zones of Regulation curriculum. It introduces the concept of the “Zones Pathway” via an interactive board and variety of card decks to explore situations, emotions and related self-regulatory tools. Participants collaborate as they problem-solve how to navigate different social situations.
Learn moreIf you’ve been using the game Navigating The Zones, add this companion Advanced Pack to help more sophisticated social learners (age 10+) further practice and develop their social emotional problem solving and self-regulation skills by introducing three additional levels of play, each advancing in complexity. The Advanced Pack provides 400 more complex and nuanced Situation and Feeling Cards to foster imagination, perspective taking, and social problem solving. It introduces Wild Cards and Trade-A-Cards to encourage more flexible, strategic thinking as players move from cooperative to competitive game play. IMPORTANT! This product requires the use of Navigating The Zones, sold separately.
Learn moreImplementing the Social Thinking Methodology with Fidelity
Key concepts explored in this On Demand series: Superflex curriculum, You Are a Social Detective, PBIS & RTI, self-regulation, social awareness
On Demand Courses
Learn best teaching practices-including scope and sequencing-for popular Social Thinking products You Are a Social Detective and Superflex: A Social Thinking Superhero Curriculum. Includes a discussion on using We Thinkers! Volume 1 and Volume 2 with early learners.
Module 1: Become a Social Detective Before You Learn to Self-Regulate!
Module 2: Getting to Self-Regulation: Introducing Rock Brain & the Team of Unthinkables
Module 3: Exploring the Superflex Curriculum & How It Fits into the School Day
Module 4: Expanding Superflex’s Teachings & Exploring Use Across Different Age Groups