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This is a guide to information currently available through the Library Resource Centre at Library Support Services on “Social Skills." To obtain this information, you can book online in “Online booking” at http://10.1.112.23 , visit the library, or call the LRC at 788-0203. We are located in the Prince Charles Educational Resource Centre at 1075 Wellington Avenue.
Prepared by M. Bowyer, Library Support Services
Updated May 2007
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BOOKS FOR EDUCATORS
153.852 BED
Bedell, Gene. 3 steps to yes : The Gentle art of getting your way.
New York: Crown Business, c2000.
155.418 DER
DeRosier, Melissa E. Group interventions and exercises for enhancing
children's communication, cooperation, and confidence. Sarasota, FL:
Professional Resource Press, c2002.
155.432 POL
Polce-Lynch, Mary. Boy talk : How you can help your son express his
emotions. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, c2002.
158.1 08352 MAC
Macavinta, Courtney. Respect : A Girl's guide to getting respect and
dealing when your line is crossed. Minneapolis, MN: Free Spirit Pub.,
c2005.
302.14 SHE
Sheridan, Susan M. The Tough kid social skills book. Longmont, CO:
Sopris West, 1996.
302.14071 DOW
Dowd, Tom. Teaching social skills to youth : A Step-by-step guide to 182
basic to complex skills plus helpful teaching techniques. Boys Town,
NE: Boys Town Press, c2005.
303.4833 WOO
Wood, Andrew F. Online communication : Linking technology, identity, and
culture. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c2005.
305.231 THO
Thompson, Michael et al. Best friends, worst enemies : Understanding the
social lives of children. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002, c2001.
370.115 KRE
Kreidler, William J. and Sandy Tsubokawa Whittall. Early childhood
adventures in peacemaking. Cambridge, MA: Educators for Social
Responsibility, c1999.
370.115 PIR
Pirtle, Sarah. Linking up! Cambridge, MA: Educators for Social
Responsibility, c1998.
370.153 EDU
Educating minds and hearts : Social Emotional learning and the passage into
adolescence.
Alexandria, VA: ASCD, c1999.
370.153 TEO
Teolis, Beth. Ready to use self-esteem & conflict-solving activities for
grades 4-8. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, c2002.
371.4047 VAR
Varenhorst, Barbara. An Asset builder's guide to training peer helpers :
Fifteen sessions on communication, assertiveness, and decision-making skills.
Minneapolis, MN: Search Institute, c2003.
371.78 ASS
Assessment toolkit for bullying, harassment and peer relations at school :
Criteria of best practices.
Ottawa: Canadian Public Health Association, c2004.
372.6044 SCO
Scott, Deb. Fifty speaking & listening activities : Beginner-advanced,
children & adult. Toronto: ESL Resources, c2002.
372.622 TAL
Talking classrooms : Shaping children's learning through oral language
instruction. Newark, DE: International Reading Association, c2001.
372.83 GAJ
Gajewski, Nancy. Social skills strategies : A Social-emotional
curriculum for adolescents. Eau Claire, WI: Thinking Publications,
c1998.
373.14 WAT
Waterman, Jill and Elizabeth Waterman. Helping at-risk students : A
Group counseling approach for grades 6-9. New York: Guilford Press,
c2001.
373.1785 KES
Kessler, Rachael. The Soul of education : Helping students find
connection, compassion, and character at school. Alexandria, VA:
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, c2000.
613.95 0874 SCH
Schwier, Karin Melberg and Dave Hingsburger. Sexuality : Your sons and
daughters with intellectual disabilities. Baltimore, MD: Paul H.
Brookes, 2000.
618.92 85506 MUI
Muir, Nicole. Talk! Talk! Talk! : Tools to facilitate language. Eau
Claire, WI: Thinking Pub., c2000.
618.92 898203 GUT
Gutstein, Steven E. and Rachelle K. Sheely. Relationship development
intervention with young children : Social and emotional development
activities for Asperger syndrome, autism, PDD, and NLD. Philadelphia:
Jessica Kingsley Pub., 2005, c2002.
646.70071 REA
Begun, Ruth Weltmann. Ready-to-use social skills : Lessons & activities
for grades 4-6. West Nyack, NY: Center for Applied Research in
Education, 1996.
646.70071 REA
Begun, Ruth Weltmann. Ready-to-use social skills : Lessons & activities
for grades 7-12. West Nyack, NY: Center for Applied Research in
Education, 1996.
649.1 EVA
Evans, Betsy. You can't come to my birthday party! : Conflict resolution
with young children. Ypsilanti, MI: High/Scope Press, c2002.
649.125 WIS
Wiseman, Rosalind. Queen bees & wannabes : Helping your daughter survive
cliques, gossip, boyfriends, and other realities of adolescence. New
York: Three Rivers Press, c2002.
AV MATERIALS
Choosing your friends.
New York: Sunburst, c2001. 1
videocassette (18 min., 45 sec.) + 1 teacher’s guide.
SUMMARY: The friends chosen by teens can affect the course of their lives,
for better or worse. Middle schoolers, who are so easily influenced by peers
and who do desperately want to fit in, are often ill-prepared to make wise
choices in this vital area. Using short, realistic vignettes this program
explores why teens choose the friends they do and helps them assess their
choices. Audience: JS. BOOKING # VR3391
Cool kids : A Proactive
approach to social responsibility.
Longmont, CO: Sopris West,
1998. 1 book, 1 sound cassette, 46 posters, 1 stamp, 1 spinner, 1 reward
menu, 120 postcards, 38 skill lessons, 392 stickers, 8 markers in package, 1
marker.
SUMMARY: A social skills program designed for all kids, pre-K to secondary,
which: prevents problem behavior; gives students alternatives to ineffective
actions; and, promotes a nurturing climate of security, safety, and
confidence.
Audience: PIJ.
BOOKING # KITMM1108
Making decisions and being
assertive : Knowing your mind, speaking your mind.
Coquitlam, BC: Classroom Video, c2000. 1 videocassette (20 min.)
SUMMARY: Shows how self-awareness is a prerequisite to making good
decisions and being assertive. Audience: SA. BOOKING # VR3197
Respect : Give it! get it!
Pleasantville, NY:
Sunburst Communications, 1999. 1 videocassette (15 min.)
SUMMARY: Helps children learn what it means to be respectful and why it is
important to respect others. Teaches them to identify different kinds of
respect and how they can be shown. Audience: PI. BOOKING # VHS0002828
Respect : It starts with you.
New York: Sunburst,
c2002. 1 videocassette (20 min., 15 sec.) + student workshop guide.
SUMMARY: A workshop that uses dramatizations to illustrate how respect for
self, others, authority and rules, and differences helps foster a kinder,
more caring atmosphere at school, home and in the community. Audience: I.
BOOKING # VR3422
Schoolwide behavioral support.
Indianapolis, IN: Trustees of Indiana University, c2002. 1 videocassette (59
min., 23 sec.) + 1 resource guide.
SUMMARY: Trying to integrate personal and pro-social skills into school
curriculums is difficult in our age of standards based reform, and national
testing and accountability. This program shows two schools during the
implementation of schoolwide behavioral expectations integrated into
teaching and learning across all school settings. The program is organized
into segments to illustrate each element in the process. Audience: A.
BOOKING # VR3549
Student workshop : Building
good relationships.
New York: Sunburst Technology, c2001. 1 videocassette (38 min.) + teacher's
guide.
SUMMARY: Each of the workshop's four parts deals with a different skill to
help teenagers develop good relationships. The segments are: how to
determine whether a relationship is healthy or not, the difference between
assertiveness and aggressiveness, good communication skills, and easy ways
to stop conflict before it starts. Audience: JS. BOOKING # VR3727
Student workshop : Learning to
care. Pleasantville, NY:
Sunburst Communications, 1999. 1 cassette (ca. 15 min.)
+ 1 teacher's guide.
SUMMARY: Helps children to understand and help a friend through some
difficult experiences. Designed to be used over four sessions, each story is
followed by questions and activity sheets. Audience: P. BOOKING #
VHS0002855
Student workshop : Learning to
communicate.
Pleasantville, NY:
Sunburst Communications, 2000. 1
cassette (ca. 15 min.) + 1 teacher's guide.
SUMMARY: Helps children learn to avoid the problems that can arise when
people do not communicate properly with one another. Shows how to develop
good listening skills, correct body language and tone of voice. Audience:
PI. BOOKING #
VHS0003002
Student workshop : Let’s talk
about respect. New
York: Sunburst, c2002. 1 videocassette (17 min.) + student workshop guide.
SUMMARY: The “Respect Train” will get kids thinking and talking about what
respect means. At the scheduled stops, a friendly conductor uses brief
vignettes and songs to illustrate different aspects of respect. Audience:
P. BOOKING # VR3373
Student workshop : Respecting
differences.
Pleasantville, NY: Sunburst Communications, c2000. 1 cassette (ca. 18 min.)
SUMMARY: Teaches young children the importance of respecting the
differences of others. Audience: P. BOOKING # VHS0002952
Taking charge of me : Emotional
IQ. Pleasantville,
NY: Sunburst Communications, c1997. 1 videocassette (23 min.)
SUMMARY: Presents students with the opportunity to gain insight, practice
the skills, and enjoy the increase to their self-esteem that comes with
emotional growth. Features true-to-life vignettes in which young people
grapple with problems such as listening to and respecting others’ ideas,
persisting at a task, or relating socially to peers. Audience: IJA.
BOOKING # VHS0002494
Woven word : early literacy for
life. Seattle, WA: Committee for Children, c2004. 2 videocassettes (45
min.), 6 books, 4 sets of 1 teacher master and 25 take-home booklets
(titles: The friendship alphabet, Gloria's first day, The long wait, Rhymitis), 15 cardboard strips.
SUMMARY: A program in which books and activities combine social emotional
learning with emergent literacy and language learning skills. Teachers and
families use a shared reading technique called Question with CARE to read
and talk about books together to increase children's understanding and
learning in areas such as friendship, getting along, and respect for others.
The teacher video outlines the goals of the program and demonstrates its use
in the classroom. The family video describes how the parents can work with
the program at home, emphasizing the importance of their educational role as
they read to their children, and also develop a partnership with the schools
that their children attend. Audience: A.
BOOKING # MM1225
JOURNAL
ARTICLES
Beebe-Frankenberger, Margaret et al. “Students with or at risk for problem
behavior : Betwixt and between teacher and parent expectations.”
Preventing School Failure 49.2 (2005): 10-17.
Beland, Kathy. “Boosting social and emotional competence.” Educational Leadership 64.7 (2007): 68-71.
Denham, Alexa et al. “The Effect of social skills interventions in the primary school.” Educational Psychology in Practice 22.1 (2006): 33-51.
Fox, Lisa et al. “The Teaching pyramid : A Model for supporting social competence and preventing challenging behavior in young children.” Brown University Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter 22.9 (2006): 8.
Goudas, Marios et al. “The effectiveness of teaching a life skills program in a physical education context.” European Journal of Psychology of Education – EJPE 21.4 (2006): 429-438.
Kidron, Yael and Steve Fleischman. “Promoting adolescents' prosocial behavior.” Educational Leadership 63. 7 (2006): 90-91.
Lane, Kathleen Lynne et al. “Designing, implementing, and evaluating social skills interventions for elementary students : Step-by-step procedures based on actual school-based investigations.” Preventing School Failure 49.2 (2005): 18-26.
Meier, Catherine R. et al. “Importance of social skills in the elementary grades.” Education & Treatment of Children 29.3 (2006): 409-419.
Prater, Mary Anne et al. “Using children's books as bibliotherapy for at-risk students : A Guide for teachers.” Preventing School Failure 50.4 (2006): 5-13.
WEB SITES
The Art of teaching : Social/emotional issues.
2007. TeacherVision. 3 May 2007
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/social-studies/thematic-unit/32913.html
Assessing young children's social competence. Diane E. McClellan and Lilian G. Katz. 2001. The Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting. 4 May 2007 http://ceep.crc.uiuc.edu/eecearchive/digests/2001/mcclel01.html
Dr. Mac’s amazing behavior management advice site. Tom McIntyre. 2007. 3 May 2007 http://www.behavioradvisor.com/
Practicing social skills with children. 2007. American Academy of Pediatrics. 3 May 2007 http://www.dbpeds.org/articles/detail.cfm?id=114
Social Skills Training. July 2006. Indiana University School of Education. 3 May 2007 http://www.indiana.edu/~schpsy/sskills.html
