Cook, Julia (Julia Cook)

Worst Day of My Life Ever! Activity Guide for Teachers: Classroom Ideas for Teaching the Skills of Listening and Following Instructions Cook, Julia (Julia Cook)

Looking for clever and entertaining as well as effective ways to teach 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 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 colouring pages and mazes for younger children to games with more complex directions and homework worksheets for older students.

The book provides teacher instructions, lists of materials when needed, activity variations and extensions, worksheets and praise coupons teachers can use to reward students who demonstrate good listening and following instructions skills. The enclosed CD-ROM has pdf files of all of the reproducible pages in the activity guide plus extra worksheets to use.

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