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8 ways to help students with social and emotional regulation (and still have time to teach!) Part 2

January 31, 2018 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

Eight ways to help students manage social and emotional regulation Part 2

This post is the second of two posts about helping students with social and emotional regulation. The first post was about communicating feelings, social / emotional language, going cross-curricular and linking feelings and behaviors. This one covers kindness expectations, positive reinforcement, dedicated space, tools and strategies.

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8 ways to help students with social and emotional regulation (and still have time to teach!) Part 1

January 25, 2018 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

Eight ways to help students manage social and emotional regulation

Dealing with issues related to social and emotional regulation have become a part of everyday life for many teachers. Here are 8 ways to help students with social emotional regulation (and still have time to teach!)

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5 simple ways to help kids communicate their feelings

November 12, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

5 simple ways to help kids communicate their feelings

Putting emotions into words can be a struggle for many of us, even if we are proficient in communicating using language! Here are 5 simple, ways kids with a variety of language skills can communicate their feelings! #feelings #emotions #kids #socialskills #specialeducation #regulateemotions

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Children’s Thanksgiving stories that model an attitude of gratitude!

October 8, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

Happy Thanksgiving! Tis the season of gratitude. If there is one thing I have learned from being a human being, it’s that personality traits / emotions like gratitude can be nurtured by exposure to models. Here are three Children’s Thanksgiving stories that model an attitude of gratitude!

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The benefits of a using a visual schedule in kindergarten and early primary classrooms

August 30, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

In my role as a special education teacher, I’ve been seeing more and more visual schedules being used for entire classes in the past few years, and they really have their benefits!

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Why back to school is such a big deal – manage anxiety by setting priorities

August 8, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher 4 Comments

Why back to school is such a big deal - manage anxiety by setting priorities

Why is Back to School such a big deal? For anyone with an ounce of anxiety in them, this is the what-if countdown of the year! While I’m tempted to indulge my own anxiety by listing a few hundred here, I won’t indulge those of you who ride this roller coaster with me. Anxiety symptoms: Read More…

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How to empower and motivate beginning readers

May 8, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

How to motivate beginning readers

How a bulletin board full of TRASH can help empower and motivate beginning readers! #teaching #reading #earlyliteracy #earlylearning #ThatFunReadingTeacher

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Autism Awareness – What are Social Stories?

April 2, 2017 By thatfunreadingteacher 2 Comments

Autism Awareness - What are Social Stories? | That Fun Reading Teacher.com

What are Social Stories? Here is an explanation of what social stories are, how they help students with autism and a brief video explaining what makes them so effective! #socialstories #autism #autismawareness #specialeducation

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Kindergarten: Is your child ready to go full-time?

March 25, 2016 By thatfunreadingteacher 6 Comments

Is your child ready to go to kindergarten full-time? Did you know you still have a choice?

…and did you know you had a choice? I was visiting Julie Cole over at The Mabelhood, after her tweet caught my eye…  Full day or half day kindergarten? I’m trying to decide whether to send my kid next year.  – Julie Cole, twitter   That would be her sixth kid.   As I started Read More…

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Teaching happiness in elementary school?

January 5, 2016 By thatfunreadingteacher Leave a Comment

Happy New Year! Have you noticed a change in the happiness of kids over past decades? Has the time come for a Happiness Curriculum? Introducing a storybook and FREE poster set about The Secrets of Happy Kids!

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