Emotional Literacy Social Awareness Positive Behavior Support Module VI
Dec 30, 2015
Emotional Literacy Social Awareness
Positive Behavior Support Module VI
Emotional Literacy Social Awareness
1. Can the child identify or label the emotions that another person is experiencing?
2. Does the child understand why the other person might feel that way?
3. Can the child predict how that person might respond?
Emotional literacy involves a hierarchy of skills.
Emotional Literacy Social Awareness
Practice perspective taking skills when reading literature, watching video clips or looking at images. Call children’s attention to the context clues that help identify the other person’s point of view.
Possible prompts: What does his/her face look like?
How does he/she sound?
What is he/she doing?
Assist children in recognizing and understanding how others might be feeling by pointing out facial expressions, voice tone, body language, or words.
Emotional Literacy Social Awareness
Examples:
“Ask Mark to help you. He really knows a lot
about Legos.”
“ You know who really likes stories about trains?
Freddy does. You should go over and show
him the book you checked out from the
library.”
Model phrases children can use to initiate and encourage interactions.
Emotional Literacy Social Awareness
Limit materials so that children must practice sharing and turn taking. Prepare students prior to limiting materials. Provide instruction regarding the language of sharing and turn-taking (i.e. please and thank you).
Teach turn-taking games in both large and small groups.
Plan activities that must be done with a partner.
Structure activities to encourage and teach sharing, turn taking, and working cooperatively.
Emotional Literacy Social Awareness
Maintaining interactions gives children opportunities to be flexible, adaptable, and resilient. As children are engaging in pretend play scenario encourage children’s ideas and interactions. Be prepared to help children left out of scenarios to initiate inclusion.
Example: “What job would you like to do on the farm? Tell your friends that you are going to milk the cow next.”
Provide sincere, enthusiastic feedback to promote and maintain social interactions.
Emotional LiteracySocial Awareness
Temperament
Environment
Development
T.E.D. must be considered when planning social-emotional instruction. One size does not fit all. As with any other skill, some children will need a variety of support for their learning while others will be quite proficient with little instruction.
C. Social Competence 3. Shows competence in initiating social
interactions 4. Increasingly interacts and communicates with peers to initiate pretend play scenarios that share a common goal 7. Begins to have meaningful friends
Pre-K GuidelinesSocial and Emotional Development Domain
D. Social Awareness Skills 1. Demonstrates an understanding that others have specific characteristics 2. Demonstrates an understanding that
others have perspectives and feelings that are different from his/her own
Pre-K GuidelinesSocial and Emotional Development Domain
Self Reflection and Action Plan
Home Connection