Build Emergent Literacy and Social Skills with One Program
Theresearch-based WOVEN WORD program uses an effective method to help preschool and kindergarten children develop reading skills. At the same time, the program promotes social and emotional skills that help them succeed inacademic and social situations.
Using a shared approach called dialogic reading, adults read stories and ask children questions. Children are encouraged to talk about the feelings and problems of characters in the stories and how they translate to the children's own experiences. This process strengthens oral language, vocabulary, comprehension, and social and emotional skills.
Elementary
The SECOND STEP lessons begin with Skills for Learning and Listening Rules, which set the stage for future academic success and later lessons on identifying feelings, managing strong emotions, solving problems, and getting along with others. Students build on these skills as they honetheir ability to pay attention, listen, and ignore distractions. They also learn how to respond to others with empathy, calm down, manage strong feelings, and solve problems. Finally lessons provide a bridge to middle school. Students will strengthen their empathy, emotion-management, and problem-solving skills while learning to use them in social and academic settings. Whether they have a disagreement with a friend or test anxiety, students will be better poised to make positive choices.
SECOND STEP lessons include: Activities, Brain Builder games, puppets, and partner work keep children engaged and help them practice their skills. The lessons are brought to life by stories filled with situations your students encounter on a daily basis during the school year, from navigating the hallways to taking tests. Five-minute Daily Practice activities and interactive Home Links reinforce skills in class and at home. The program is interactive for students, giving them plentyof opportunities to practice skills and participate in discussions. Videos dramatize scenarios that fourth- and fifth-graders encounter in school.
The research-based STEPS TO RESPECT program teaches elementary students to recognize, refuse, and report bullying, be assertive, and build friendships. In fact, a recent study found that the program led to a 31 percent decline in bullying and a 70 percent cut in destructive bystander behavior.
STEPS TO RESPECT lessons can help kids feel safe and supported by the adults around them so that they can build stronger bonds to school and focus on academic achievement. And the program supports your staff too, with school-wide policies and training. Now everyone can work together to build a safe environment free from bullying.
Second Step: Middle School
The research-based SECOND STEP program helps your students learn the protective skills to make good choices and stay engaged in school despite the pitfalls of substance abuse, bullying, cyber bullying, and peer pressure! Middle school is the place where adolescents can develop positive coping skills—or risky ones.
Middle school lessons require little prep time and are used in tandem with an interactive DVD. Interviews with real kids who talk about real issues draw your students in; games, exercises, and skill practice make it fun.