Ages: 11-18
Grades: 6-Adult

Increase success in social communication with instruction that systematically targets specific skills and uses a variety of learning methods. The activities teach explicit aspects of social skills in everyday contexts with these learning strategies:

• explicit instruction
• modeling
• observation
• discussion
• role-playing
• other guided practice

The activity pages are filled with graphic organizers and interesting photos. The lessons give students specific, clear directions that help them navigate their often confusing social world. The lessons can be presented to individual students or small groups of students. A pretest/posttest is included in each book.

Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent: Making Social Inferences presents a wide variety of contexts for practice in making accurate inferences and responding appropriately with activities like using information from body language and asking appropriate questions, exploring social expectations, making appropriate social comment, understanding indirect requests, judging intentions, and more.

40 pages • 8.5 x 11, softcover • ©2008