Pro-ed Executive Functions Training-Elementary by Carolyn P. Gottschall, Constance Lund Rozendaal - 31212

Pro-ed Executive Functions Training-Elementary

Ages: 6-11
Grades: 1-6

Focus on executive function skills in the early elementary years and help students reach their potential. These fun, functional activities teach students to plan, execute, complete, and monitor tasks.

Children with adaptive and self-regulatory behavioral deficits may have impairments in executive functions. Executive Functions Training–Elementary develops cognitive abilities and behavior control with classroom-related activities for varying ability levels. The activities are organized into five skill areas:

Working Memory: chunking and rehearsing, linking and associations, acronyms and silly sentences, paraphrasing, and visualizing
Time Management: estimating time, planning for homework and long-term assignments, studying for tests
Planning & Organization: brainstorming, organizing notes and information, reading with a purpose, writing efficiently
Flexible Thinking: reorder sentence, rewrite sentences and paragraphs, homographs, intonation and stress
Self-Monitoring: checking for mistakes, editing written work, identifying key words in directions, combining information
Skills for Behavior–Doing: strategies for inhibition, emotional control, attention, and initiation

Much more than activities, this resource gives clinicians tools to measure and establish executive function skills. Each skill area contains:

detailed teaching instructions
activities organized into sub-skills
exercises for varying ability levels
goals
teaching strategies
a section review with guidelines for skill mastery
extension activities
parent strategies
teacher strategies

The book has extra helps to engage students, professionals, and parents in the establishment of the new skills:

Student Rating Scale
Parent/Teacher Rating Scale
Student Questionnaire
Teacher Questionnaire
Parent Questionnaire
profile of strengths and weaknesses for each skill area
activity logs
visual organizers
schedule planners

198 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover book with online access to reproducible pages, Rating Scales, Questionnaires, and answer key • ©2011