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The Worst Day of My Life Ever: Activity Guide for Teachers
Looking for clever and entertaining as well as effective ways to teach your students how to listen and follow instructions?
To help reinforce the social skills lessons in her children’s book, The WORST Day of My Life EVER! , author Julia Cook has created 24 engaging games and activities teachers can use in their K through 6 classrooms.
In addition to exercising their listening and following instructions skills, students must observe, think, describe, write, and work together to complete these challenging activities. This guide offers a variety of activities ranging from coloring pages and mazes for younger children to games with more complex directions and homework worksheets for older students.
The book provides teacher instructions, offers lists of materials when needed and activity variations and extensions, worksheets, and praise coupons you can use to reward students who demonstrate good listening and following instructions skills. The activity guide also includes a digital content link for access to reproducible pages to use.
You will find the ideas in this guide a great way to make the lessons RJ learns come alive for the students in your classroom!
To help reinforce the social skills lessons in her children’s book, The WORST Day of My Life EVER! , author Julia Cook has created 24 engaging games and activities teachers can use in their K through 6 classrooms.
In addition to exercising their listening and following instructions skills, students must observe, think, describe, write, and work together to complete these challenging activities. This guide offers a variety of activities ranging from coloring pages and mazes for younger children to games with more complex directions and homework worksheets for older students.
The book provides teacher instructions, offers lists of materials when needed and activity variations and extensions, worksheets, and praise coupons you can use to reward students who demonstrate good listening and following instructions skills. The activity guide also includes a digital content link for access to reproducible pages to use.
You will find the ideas in this guide a great way to make the lessons RJ learns come alive for the students in your classroom!
32 pages, Paperback
First published March 28, 2011
About the author
Julia Cook
151 books198 followers"In order to teach children, you must enter their view of the world."
~ Julia Cook
JULIA COOK, M.S. is a national award winning children’s author, counselor and parenting expert. She has presented in thousands of schools across the country and abroad, regularly speaks at national education and counseling conferences, and has published children’s books on a wide range of character and social development topics. The goal behind Cook’s work is to actively involve young people in fun, memorable stories and teach them to become lifelong problem solvers. Inspiration for her books comes from working with children and carefully listening to counselors, parents, and teachers, in order to stay on top of needs in the classroom and at home. Cook has the innate ability to enter the worldview of a child through storybooks, giving children both the “what to say” and the “how to say it”.
~ Julia Cook
JULIA COOK, M.S. is a national award winning children’s author, counselor and parenting expert. She has presented in thousands of schools across the country and abroad, regularly speaks at national education and counseling conferences, and has published children’s books on a wide range of character and social development topics. The goal behind Cook’s work is to actively involve young people in fun, memorable stories and teach them to become lifelong problem solvers. Inspiration for her books comes from working with children and carefully listening to counselors, parents, and teachers, in order to stay on top of needs in the classroom and at home. Cook has the innate ability to enter the worldview of a child through storybooks, giving children both the “what to say” and the “how to say it”.
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