3 Instructional Strategies for Social Skills By Amy Pontarelli EEX 6061

Angry Words What Goes Around Comes Around

Angry Words: What Comes Around Goes Around Content: Kindergarten – 5 th Grade Standard: Analyze the influence of family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors. – SSS: HE.4.C.2.2 Explain the important role that friends/peers may play on health practices and behaviors. Service Delivery Mode: Classroom Instruction, Small Group Instruction University of North Carolina School of Education. (2001). Angry words: What comes around goes around. Retrieved on March 22, 2010 from the Learn North Carolina website

Read Andrew’s Angry Words to the class to show children how words can have a lasting effect on others. (Lachner, 1995)

Angry Words Words Last Take a ball of yarn and cover it with strong- smelling powder. Point out, as the class passes it around the room, how the angry words have left residue. (University of North Carolina School of Education, 2001)

Angry Words Small groups for cooperative learning: Give scenarios: How can each group avoid using angry words? (University of North Carolina School of Education, 2001)

Spin a Web Group Cooperation

Spin a Web Content: Pre-Kindergarten – 2nd Standard: Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings. SSS: PE.K.R.1.1 Treat others with respect during play Service Delivery Mode: Classroom instruction or small group instruction Embrace the Future. (2007). Social skills. Retrieved on March 22, 2010 from Embrace the Future: Resiliency Resource Centre website index.htm? resiliency/social_skills.htm

Spin a Web Start in a big circle, hold your ball of yarn tightly, and toss the ball of yarn to a friend: "I pick John to help spin our web”, or “I like how John shares with his friends” (Faine, 2010).

Spin a Web Continue passing the yarn and using kind words until the ball of yarn runs out. Try standing up with your life-size web! (Faine, 2010)

All About Me Similarities and Differences A Way to Build Self-Esteem

All About Me Content: Pre-Kindergarten – 2 nd Standard: Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings. SSS PE.3.R.1.5 Benchmark Description: Show respect for the views of a peer from a different cultural background. Service Delivery Mode: Classroom instruction, small group instruction, individual instruction. Fish, L. (2009). Building blocks: The first steps to creating a multicultural classroom. Retrieved on March 22, 2010 from Research Room: EdChange Multicultural Pavilion website buildingblocks.html

All About Me Posters Examples to include on your poster: Pictures Hobbies Family Culture Travel Describing Words (Pearson Education, 2010)

References Embrace the Future. (2007). Social skills. Retrieved on March 22, 2010 from Embrace the Future: Resiliency Resource Centre websitehttp:// uture.org.au/resiliency/social_skills.htmhttp:// Faine. (2010). Group cooperation. Retrieved on March 22, 2010 from A-Z Teacher Stuff website Fish, L. (2009). Building blocks: The first steps to creating a multicultural classroom. Retrieved on March 22, 2010 from Research Room: EdChange Multicultural Pavilion website Lachner, D. (1995). Andrew’s angry words. Gossau Zurich, Switzerland: Nord-Sud Verlag AG. Pearson Education. (2010). Retrieved on March 22, 2010 from Family Education website University of North Carolina School of Education. (2001). Angry words: What comes around goes around. Retrieved on March 22, 2010 from the Learn North Carolina website