Outcomes
- Improve planning and organization skills
- Improve the ability to effectively carryout plans to complete tasks
- Use self-evaluation strategies to monitor progress
Children with adaptive and self-regulatory behavioral deficits may have impairments in executive functions.
Executive Functions Training Elementary develops cognitive abilities and behavior control with classroom-related activities for varying ability levels. The activities are organized into five skill areas:
Working Memory: chunking and rehearsing, linking and associations, acronyms and silly sentences, paraphrasing, and visualizing
Time Management: estimating time, planning for homework and long-term assignments, studying for tests
Planning & Organization: brainstorming, organizing notes and information, reading with a purpose, writing efficiently
Flexible Thinking: reorder sentence, rewrite sentences and paragraphs, homographs, intonation and stress
Self-Monitoring: checking for mistakes, editing written work, identifying key words in directions, combining information
Skills for Behavior–Doing: strategies for inhibition, emotional control, attention, and initiation
Much more than activities, this resource gives clinicians tools to measure and establish executive function skills. Each skill area contains:
- detailed teaching instructions
- activities organized into sub-skills
- exercises for varying ability levels
- goals
- teaching strategies
- a section review with guidelines for skill mastery
- extension activities
- parent strategies
- teacher strategies
Copy the student activity pages or print them from the FREE CD.
FREE SAMPLE PAGESSamples are in PDF format. Download the free Acrobat reader
here.- Table of Contents
- Sample Pages
