Home Schooling Activities For Teaching Social-Emotional Learning and Reading Literacy
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Reading, writing, speaking, and listening are all interwoven processes, and each helps build and strengthen the other. Through its variety of activities, Home Schooling Activities For Teaching Social-Emotional Learning and Reading Literacy fosters the relationship between these four necessary skills while helping to fully develop each. Home Schooling Activities provides multiple opportunities for children to read and listen to stories, to listen and respond to verbal directions, and to read and write on their personal Reflection Sheets. An important component of each unit is the Sharing Circle which provides the opportunity for children to share their ideas verbally, which is the prime method for developing oral language skills. Listening attentively to others share their thoughts in a Sharing Circle helps develop effective listening skills. Through all this sharing and listening children are learning the conventions of conversation and appropriate listening and speaking behavior. Through the Sharing Circles children also learn to clearly express their thoughts and feelings so others can understand.
Home Schooling Activities also directly affects the social and emotional development of children in a number of ways. Each unit has a social-emotional learning (SEL) theme that is fully developed and explored through the stories, activities, and Sharing Circles. As children are actively engaged in talking, sharing, listening and cooperatively doing, they are learning important skills for getting along with others. Discussions and self-reflection encourage self-awareness and self-knowledge. By following rules of good communication in the Sharing Circle and other activities, children get to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas and to learn to be respectful of, and appreciate, the ideas and feelings of others.
As a home-schooling parent, you have a dual role in developing your child’s academic literacy, and social-emotional skills. As a parent, it’s through the home environment you create, the behaviors you model and encourage, and the values you promote. As a teacher, you provide direct instruction through activities, experiences, and discussion.
Through its integration of language development and social-emotional learning, Home Schooling Activities is designed to help children grow into capable and caring young people.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Design of the Book
The Importance of Social and Emotional Learning
How Sharing Circles Teach Life Skills
How to Conduct Sharing Circles
Tips to Help Develop Reading Literacy
Tips to Help Develop Social-Emotional Skills
Tips to Optimize Learning and Engagement
Stories, Activities & Sharing Circles
RESPECT
KINDNESS
TOLERANCE
SERVICE TO OTHERS
RESPONSIBILITY
SELF-CONTROL
MAKING GOOD DECISIONS
Primary Subject Area – Home Schooling
Ages 7-14, 152 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, paperback, reproducibles
Description
Reading, writing, speaking, and listening are all interwoven processes, and each helps build and strengthen the other. Through its variety of activities, Home Schooling Activities For Teaching Social-Emotional Learning and Reading Literacy fosters the relationship between these four necessary skills while helping to fully develop each. Home Schooling Activities provides multiple opportunities for children to read and listen to stories, to listen and respond to verbal directions, and to read and write on their personal Reflection Sheets. An important component of each unit is the Sharing Circle which provides the opportunity for children to share their ideas verbally, which is the prime method for developing oral language skills. Listening attentively to others share their thoughts in a Sharing Circle helps develop effective listening skills. Through all this sharing and listening children are learning the conventions of conversation and appropriate listening and speaking behavior. Through the Sharing Circles children also learn to clearly express their thoughts and feelings so others can understand.
Home Schooling Activities also directly affects the social and emotional development of children in a number of ways. Each unit has a social-emotional learning (SEL) theme that is fully developed and explored through the stories, activities, and Sharing Circles. As children are actively engaged in talking, sharing, listening and cooperatively doing, they are learning important skills for getting along with others. Discussions and self-reflection encourage self-awareness and self-knowledge. By following rules of good communication in the Sharing Circle and other activities, children get to express their thoughts, feelings and ideas and to learn to be respectful of, and appreciate, the ideas and feelings of others.
As a home-schooling parent, you have a dual role in developing your child’s academic literacy, and social-emotional skills. As a parent, it’s through the home environment you create, the behaviors you model and encourage, and the values you promote. As a teacher, you provide direct instruction through activities, experiences, and discussion.
Through its integration of language development and social-emotional learning, Home Schooling Activities is designed to help children grow into capable and caring young people.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Design of the Book
The Importance of Social and Emotional Learning
How Sharing Circles Teach Life Skills
How to Conduct Sharing Circles
Tips to Help Develop Reading Literacy
Tips to Help Develop Social-Emotional Skills
Tips to Optimize Learning and Engagement
Stories, Activities & Sharing Circles
RESPECT
KINDNESS
TOLERANCE
SERVICE TO OTHERS
RESPONSIBILITY
SELF-CONTROL
MAKING GOOD DECISIONS
Primary Subject Area – Home Schooling
Ages 7-14, 152 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, paperback, reproducibles
