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How to Improve Focus and Memory in Children
Do you work with students who struggle to maintain focus and find memory tasks difficult? Are you in search of ideas of how to improve focus and memory in children? Here are several strategies to help children. Ideas for How To Improve Focus Classrooms are busy places! A student’s visual and auditory focus and attention […]
What is Prompting?
What is prompting? When teaching children new skills, therapists and teachers provide instruction and prompts to complete the skill. Many times different prompts are used together to help a child learn a new skill or complete a targeted response. What are the different types of prompts? There are many different types of prompts such as: […]
Working Memory Deficits, Emotional Regulation and ADHD
The Journal of Attention Disorders published research on working memory deficits, emotional regulation, and ADHD. Previous research indicates that emotional regulation is related to the development and refinement of executive functions, such as inhibition, planning, and working memory. Methodology of the Study This study investigated the functional relationship between varying working memory demands and ADHD-related […]
Intrinsic Motivation in the Classroom – How to Help
Intrinsic motivation in the classroom is the ability to complete a skill or activity based on personal interest, achievements, and enjoyment not for external rewards. Many children need external motivation in the classroom or with related service providers to complete tasks or practice skills. Teachers and related service providers may use different reward systems such as […]
Paper Plate Drawing Game for Summer
This Summer paper plate drawing game is a super fun, kinesthetic, easy activity for a group. It encourages visual-spatial skills, visual motor skills, and body awareness. It is a definite challenge for kinesthetic awareness. How to play the paper plate drawing game: Give each player a pencil and a non-coated, white paper plate. If you […]
Self Regulation Checklist for Self Monitoring
Do your students struggle with refocusing after lunch? Perhaps after group activities it is difficult to return to independent work. Or maybe they need visual supports to help guide them to complete independent work. If you need to encourage students to improve self-regulation skills and maintain classroom expectations, then this free self-regulation checklist will help […]
Fun Handwriting Games Freebie
There is no doubt about it, children can get tired of practicing handwriting. Even more so when they need to improve their handwriting. Handwriting is a difficult task to practice over and over again. Why not add in some fun handwriting games? This freebie can be downloaded at the end of the post. How Do […]
Cat Activities for Preschoolers – 7 Free Printables
Young children seem to love cats – they are furry, cuddly and cute. Pete the Cat books and Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat offer wonderful opportunities for literacy with a cat theme. If you are looking to extend cat picture books to practice visual motor, fine motor, and gross motor skills here are 6 […]
Body Awareness Activities for Children
Body awareness definition is the ability to understand where our bodies are in space and how our bodies move. Body awareness activities for children help us to understand how to relate to objects and people at home, at school and outdoors. For example, proper body awareness tells us how far to reach for objects or […]
Positive Affirmations for Children
Positive affirmations for children (and mantras) are terrific tools that children can use to support themselves. They help them develop a healthy sense of self as well as a positive mental-social-emotional mindset. You can download FREE Positive Affirmations for Children Worksheets at the bottom of this post. If you want to learn more about Teaching […]