Supplemental Resources for Social Initiation
Social Emotional IEP Goals
Social Emotional IEP Goal Bank We understand that you want to provide your students with the greatest possible chance for success in meeting their IEP goals. To help out, we’ve assembled a list of 10 frequently cited Social Emotional IEP goals as well as actionable objectives to include with them. Best of all, we’ve linked ready to go lessons and printables to each objective and provide additional resource suggestions to extend learning, giving you time ... Read more
Would You Rather Questions For Kids
Getting to know your students, and students getting to know each other, can be a real struggle, and this is especially true in remote learning environments. To help we’ve created a series of Would You Rather Questions for Kids based on the classic ice breaker game.
Brain Breaks For Kids
How Do Kids Take a Brain Break? It can be a good idea to intentionally plan a brain break mid-lesson, roughly every 20-30 minutes, though frequency can vary by age. When you plan ahead, you may avoid the slump of disengagement and can also seize an opportunity to get creative with the activity. There are three general styles of brain breaks that all apply to the end goal of providing brief respite from rigorous learning ... Read more
SEL Books
For obvious reasons, we hope that you use our online social emotional learning interventions to help your students practice and improve their social emotional skills at their own pace; however, we know that it helps to reinforce learning with additional resources like printables, worksheets, group activities, and SEL books and games.
Self Awareness Worksheets
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle SEL Skill(s): Social Initiation Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Just Like Me Cards (print one for each group of four students) Instructions for Self Awareness Worksheets Have students sit in a circle to play a game. Say, “I am going to read a statement. If this is something you enjoy, stand up and say Just Like Me.” Read the following statements: You can add or substitute statements that are more ... Read more
How to be a Good Friend
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle School SEL Skill(s): Communication, Social Initiation Duration: 30 minutes Materials: How to be a Good Friend: Lesson Instructions Friendship Advertisement Ask students if they’ve ever seen a “Wanted Ad.” You can describe to them the details of how it works to publish ads in a newspaper or an online forum when you are seeking to buy, sell, work, or hire someone. Show students the example of the mock ad. ... Read more
SEL Skill Printables
You can show an ongoing commitment to social emotional learning by recognizing students who demonstrate good or improving SEL skills.
How to Create a Bitmoji Classroom for SEL
If you’re providing remote instruction this year, you may have seem images where educators create a personalized virtual classroom that they share with students during online meetings. These classroom images are easy to make and they help students feel more connected even when they are learning from home. In this tutorial, we’ll provide step-by-step directions for how to create a Bitmoji Classroom and we’ll use a variety of posters and books focused on social emotional ... Read more
Social Emotional Learning Journal
Additional Resources Books
Holiday Printables for Social and Emotional Learning
When a holiday is coming up, it can be hard for everyone to remain focussed amid the excitement. We’re here to help! As the calendar turns and anticipation builds, our holiday printables will take your students beyond traditional coloring sheets and word searches, keeping them engaged, learning, and having fun! Whether they’re practicing non-verbal communication with jack-o-lantern expressions, healing hearts with thoughtful Valentines, or spreading a little cheer with compliment strips, students will benefit from ... Read more
Communication Skills Worksheets
We’ve created these communication skill worksheets to guide students through the different phases of appropriate and safe conversations as they meet and make friends, both in real life and digitally.
Friendship Traits: Making and Keeping Friends Activity
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle School SEL Skill(s): Communication, Social Initiation Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Making and Keeping Friends Activity Instructions In this activity, students will cut out the statement strips and mix them up on their desk. Students will then read each statement strip. If they think the statement describes a good friend, they should glue it into the “GOOD” box. If they think that it describes a bad friend, they should glue ... Read more
Find Someone Who
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle School SEL Skill(s): Social Initiation Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Find Someone Who Lesson Instructions Prep: At the top of the chart paper write “Social Initiation: Meeting New People.” Hang it in a visible space and gather students for a discussion. Prompt: Begin by asking the group to think of a time when they were in a new situation with people they did not know, like starting at a new ... Read more
Conversation Starters for Kids
It can be so hard to initiate a conversation with someone we don’t know, and it might even be harder with people we’ve met before but we’re not sure where we stand socially! Some kids are much better initiators than adults, but others really struggle. Using the conversation starters for kids activities below, you will help your students with ideas of what to say, how best to join a group, and when it’s appropriate to ... Read more