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Catalog of Social Skills Toys

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Blunders


List Price:$24.99
Lowest New Price:$17.99
Rank:5629
Average Rating:4.5 Out of 5
Number of Reviews:7

Description:
Grades K & up. Teach social graces with this exciting board game! Children will learn proper etiquette as they help Bobby, Brenda, Billy, and Becky Blunder navigate different social situations. Two or more players.

Social Skill for Small Groups 2-8 Players


List Price:$9.99
Lowest New Price:$8.72
Rank:59799
Description:
Activity Decks for Children of All Needs & All Abilities

- Game play for a range of skills with focus on social skills for small groups
- Includes 21 card

DbD Play Packs offer great skill-based game ideas that you can do at home or in school. The games use readily available supplies and can be easily adjusted for a range of abilities. Play Packs are perfect for parents, caregivers, teachers and other professionals.

Other features and benefits:
- 15 skill-based game cards and 6 information cards
- For developmental ages 3-12+
- Easily adaptive for a large range of abilities
- Illustrations and names of activities entice children's participation
- Easy to follow directions, tips and skills addressed on the back of each card

For All Ages

Social Skills Board Games


List Price:$30.95
Lowest New Price:$28.60
Rank:112834
Description:
Grades 1-5. Addressing morals, manners, empathy, friendship, and showing and managing emotions, these games encourage discussion among students about proper social behavior as they strive to find the best solution to problems. Set contains six game boards, 24 counters, one die, and one spinner.

SOCIAL SKILLS FOR LITTLE LEARNERS


List Price:$15.95
Lowest New Price:$12.77
Rank:179826
Description:
Here's a resource that makes teaching these tough-to-teach skills easier for you. Using story favorites and engaging activities, you'll get 50 fun teaching activities, pull-out mini posters, and over 35 pages of timesaving reproducibles to help kids develop social skills. 80 pages.

The Impulse Control Game


List Price:
Lowest New Price:$49.95
Rank:90865
Description:
The Impulse Control Game is an educational and therapeutic board game designed to help young people with ADD, ADHD, and other conditions involving impulse control problems. Learning to stop and think is a good start, but effective control of impulses requires the acquisition of specific skills. The game teaches seven specific skills that have been proven in the research literature to help impulsive children control their impulses, make good decisions, and avoid actions that are detrimental to themselves and others. In the game, players drive their cars, making their way through a maze of roads. At each intersection they have to make a decision regarding the best path. Some paths are shorter, but contain various hazards that are represented by road signs. For example a yield sign means that the player must go back two spaces. Therefore, players must avoid hasty decisions and choose their routes in a way that looks forward to the consequences of each path. They learn that the "easy way" is not always the best way. In order to do well in the game, players are forced to delay decisions until the facts and consequences have been considered. Includes 2 decks of cards (ages 6-11 and ages 12-15), 2 sets of rules (cooperative and competitive), bag of remote control buttons, cooperation sheet (has room for 15 buttons), and a facilitator guide. For 2-5 players. Ages 6-15. Choking hazard - small parts not intended for children under 3 years.

MASTERING SOCIAL STUDIES SKILLS CLASS PACK GRADE 5


List Price:$82.95
Lowest New Price:$68.00
Rank:70902
Description:
Features 25 individually packaged sets of 30 full-color, review cards per topic - a total of 750 curriculum-based questions! Also includes 12 double-sided, theme-based game boards; comprehensive Teacher Planning & Resource Guide; CD featuring interactive questions for PC or projection use; free online subscription; and reusable storage container.

Social Skill for Large Groups up to 15+ Players


List Price:$9.99
Lowest New Price:$8.99
Rank:225647
Description:
Development by Design Play Packs offer great skill-based ideas that you can do at home or in school. The games use readily available supplies and can be easily adjusted for a range of abilities. Play Packs are perfect for parents, caregivers, teachers and other professionals. Illustrations and names of activities entice children's participation Easy to follow directions, tips, and skills addresed on back of each card

MYSTIFY Word Scramble Board Game


List Price:$29.99
Lowest New Price:$14.99
Rank:55378
Average Rating:4.5 Out of 5
Number of Reviews:20

Description:
MYSTIFY is a fast-paced party game that gets players racing against each other to solve word and number scrambles in a variety of fun card categories. During each round, the one minute timer is turned and the fun begins. One player reads out the scrambled letters or numbers and then all other players scribble away frantically to solve the scramble. Quick, the clue is a famous comedic actor, the letters are: SCYBO. Could that be BILL COSBY - you've got it! In the next round the clue is: In what year did the dodo become extinct? - and the scrambled numbers are 0861. If you answered the year 1680 first you win the round! Other clues include hints such as a popular musician, well-known politician, place, country, object, date, and much more. Anyone can blurt out a guess at anytime, but be sure you're right because you only get one guess. Guess right first and move forward. Includes 1800 scrambles on 360 cards, game board, sand timer, playing pawns, pencils and instruction sheet.

SOCIAL STUDIES SKILL BUILDERS GR4-5


List Price:$15.95
Lowest New Price:$13.02
Rank:499656
Description:
Expand students' understanding of core areas of social studies. This reproducible book features articles and graphics chosen from Weekly Reader magazines. In 20 six-page lessons, specially tailored activities and assessments:

-Build comphrehension of social studies text
-Strengthen academic vocabulary
-Imporove students' abilities to interpret information delivered in graphics such as maps, timelines, charts, graphs, technical illustrations, and photographs.

Reading selections address the following core areas of study: geography, economics, government, community and culture, and history. This book also addresses the 10 thematic strands of the Social Studies standards proposed by NCSS and offers assessments modeled on formats used in standardized tests. For grades 4-5. 128 pages, black and white reproducibles.

Social Skills Bingo for Teens


List Price:
Lowest New Price:$39.95
Rank:160569
Description:
Focuses on five important areas: positive and negative characteristics, verbal and nonverbal communication, getting along, and common interests.

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