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Media Center Holdings- with Call Number and Librarian Notes
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perhaps a stomachache during anxiety, a headache during stress, etc.) and how they express those emotions
with their body. This knowledge can then lead to better control and/or prevention of those reactions through
self-awareness.
4. My Circles works as a visual model on which the student's relationships, friendships, and interests can be
illustrated. The most elementary way of using My Circles is by writing the names of people who the student
interacts with inside the five levels of centrality: Circle 1 – me; Circle 2 – family, Circle 3 – friends; Circle 4 –
professionals; Circle 5 – Strangers. This is a great tool for teaching appropriate social skills! You can teach
Theory of Mind skills by placing someone else in Circle 1 and defining what their social circles may be. It can also
be used to rank interests, events, and other concepts in an infinite possibility of contexts.
5. Timetables help develop and support the concept of time. Using The Day, The Week and The Year tools,
students can place events in order and associate different emotions to those events. This can help the child
understand how a person can be very happy and feel comfortable in one situation and then a second later
become angry or sad. As part of the child's description of what happened, the intensity of the feeling can be
measured on the Measure and the duration of the feeling can be measured on the Day. These can also be used
to present daily, weekly, or yearly schedules to students ahead of time in order to avoid stress in times of change.
6. Behavior Palettes are charts that contain written descriptions of different behaviors, starting with the thoughts
and feelings behind behaviors, and working up to the effects the behaviors may have on other people. Four
different types of behavior are presented within four colors: Red (outright aggressive), Yellow (passive
aggressive), Grey (submissive) and Green (assertive). These tools promote understanding and help develop the
student’s ability to self-regulate.
7. The Wheel is a visual personality organizer that promotes self-awareness. By using words, drawings, colours,
or other symbols that work well for the student, you can help create a customized reflection of the student's
personality. Using The Wheel as a sort of pie chart, each trait or characteristic is drawn in as a different “piece”
and named according to the child's self-perception, externalizing internal traits. Different parts may have different
sizes to symbolize that traits may be stronger or weaker according to how the student acts in different
circumstances.
CAT-Book Labels are intended for the various do-it-yourself books that can be used in conjunction with the
CAT-kit. A CAT-book may be a workbook, a notebook, a homemade book, or a binder with dividers and folders.
There are two labels for each suggested book: a Feelings book, a Diary, a Success book and a book of Special
Interests. These books are optional but are a great way to extend the effectiveness of the CAT-kit and allow the
student to record ideas in unique ways.
The Story Grammar Marker
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Do your students need help learning to tell and write stories? The Story Grammar Marker® (SGM®) is perfect for
helping students to visualize the elements of an episode within a story. The 24" braided tool uses icons that
represent and sequence the components necessary to retell and write a story.
The icon with eyes at one end represents the character (or characters) in an episode of a story. The star
represents the setting of the story. The shoe is the "kick-off" or initiating event (the action that gets the story
going). The heart represents the character's feelings about the initiating event. The hand represents the
character's planned response to the "kick-off"—Together they represent The Beginning of a Story. Each bead
represents an attempt to achieve the plan—Together they represent The Middle of a Story. Finally, the bow at the
end represents the direct consequence as it relates to the planned attempts, and the hearts represent the
character's feelings about the direct consequence—Together they represent The End of the Episode within a
story.
As you tell, retell, or read a story with your students, you provide them with the structure necessary to visualize
the components of the story by pointing to icons on the SGM®. Then, when students tell a story to you, they can
hold the SGM® to make sure they remember all the important elements. The 81/2" x 11" mini-poster defines
each of the icons and is the perfect companion to the SGM®.
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