Resource/Activity Books

• 32-page book (8.375" x 10.875")
• 30 visual support cards (8.5" x 11")
• 60 teacher hacks cards (10, 8.5" x 11" sheets; with 6, 4.25" x 3.75" flash cards per sheet)

Perfect for inclusion teachers who need strategies for teaching students with special needs.

Comprehensive information about teaching special learners under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act

Offers accommodations and quick tips to help teachers adapt their classrooms to students' individual needs.

Includes reproducible forms for assessment, behavior management, and communication

Perfect for any teacher who want to improve their students' social skills.

Offers a wide range of strategies for teaching specific social skills.

Supports any social-emotional learning program.

Includes reproducible forms for informal assessment and student participation.

• 32-page book (8.375" x 10.875")
• 30 activity cards (8.5" x 11")
• 50 positive affirmation strips (10, 8.5" x 11" sheets; with 5, 8.5" x 2.2" affirmation strips per sheet)

Resource books often provide tips and tricks for managing challenging behaviors, but what happens when those tactics don't work? Most teachers give up. Push Past It! brings a raw, real, and at times funny approach to handling challenging behaviors and understanding why most behavior-management strategies don't work. Author Angela Searcy shares real-world examples, proven solutions, and new approaches to overcoming classroom disruptions using her PUSH PAST IT approach. Beyond behavioral-management strategies, Push Past It! will teach you how to:

• See children's behavior as communication
• Understand what is (and is not) developmentally appropriate behavior
• Identify when to seek support
• Communicate and listen more effectively
• Help children overcome their own challenging behaviors
• Take care of yourself too!

What does a harmed child look like? It's the little girl on the playground who has mysterious bruises on her legs. It's the three-month-old baby boy who arches his back when you try to hold him. It's the four-year-old who bites and hits when asked to clean up. These are the faces of traumatized children.

As an early childhood professional, you play a key role in the early identification of maltreatment and unhealthy patterns of development. You are also the gateway to healing. In Reaching and Teaching Children Exposed to Trauma, you will find the tools and strategies to connect with harmed children and start them on the path to healing.

Dr. Sorrels offers practical strategies that caregivers need to help these littlest victims.

• Connecting with a harmed child using games, music, gentle touch, and play
• Meeting children's sensory needs throughout the day: morning arrival, group time, meal times, outdoor play, and naptime
• Creating a sensory-rich classroom environment with easy, simple ideas
• Teaching a traumatized child self-regulation skills and impulse control using visual cues, rehearsal and role play, games, and scripted stories
• Coaching and supporting social skills: turn taking, sharing, joining in play, empathy, and conflict resolution
• Communicating unconditional love and acceptance to children from hard places

Do you have a child in your early childhood classroom who:

• Climbs on top of furniture and jumps off?
• Covers his ears when children are singing?
• Refuses to touch clay, paint, or sand?
• Often falls down and skins her knees?
• Refuses to play on outdoor playground equipment?

If so, it is possible the child is having sensory processing problems. How can you help children with these problems so they can enjoy learning and grow in positive ways? Sensory Integration helps you identify children who have difficulties with sensory processing, and it offers simple, easy-to-use solutions to support the sensory needs of young children in the preschool classroom. Easy-to-implement solutions include adaptations and activities for children with different types of Sensory Processing Disorder. This book has a bonus chapter with instructions for creating low-cost items to help children with sensory issues.

Chapters cover concepts such as:

• Explaining Sensory Integration and Sensory Processing Disorder
• Defining sensory avoiders, seekers, and under-responders
• Designing the environment to support the sensory development of all children
• Helping preschoolers with sensory processing problems
• Providing practical solutions to meet the needs of individual children during daily routines
• Building and creating low-cost items such as a tire swing, sand pillow, and incline board to give children opportunities to get the sensory input they need

No previous experience with American Sign Language is required! Help all students—hearing, hearing-impaired, deaf, special needs, gifted, and English language learners—to improve language and literacy skills with Sign Language Fun in the Early Childhood Classroom.

This 64-page resource book helps students improve verbal communication, visual discrimination, spatial memory, and early reading skills. The multi-sensory approach helps all students improve language and literacy skills.

This book includes:

• teaching suggestions
• games
• activities
• songs
• rhymes
• literature recommendations
• reproducible sign language cards

Supports NCTE and NAEYC standards.

Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product line—comprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materials—is designed to assist in “Unlocking the Potential in Every Child.”

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to communication
  
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
  
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages
  

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to cooperative play and learning
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to self-regulation and keeping calm
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages

• Includes 13 mini-books to be assembled and read multiple times
• Mini-books teach essential social skills related to feelings and emotions
• Simple illustrations allow students to color and personalize their own books
• Includes completion certificates and blank mini-book pages