Classwide Social Skills Program

Early Childhood and Kindergarten Program


The Early Childhood and Kindergarten Program is designed for use with young students - ages 3 to 5. As with the Grades 1 - 4 Program, it presents a series of social skills lessons to the class. Each lesson begins with a 20 minute role-play, using puppets, of the subskills components of the social skill being targetted (i.e., listening, sharing, asking to play, helping others, and problem solving). The purposes ofhte this step are: (a) for children to attend to the subskill components that compose the target social skill; and, (b) for students to learn and use a common language for referring to their behavior.

Cue cards are used to help the children to identify social skill components.

These are the cue cards for the social skill of listening

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Following adult modelling of the subskill components, a few childre are invited to practice the social skill and receive feedback. The teacher then asks the class to indicate times when they are able to use the target social skills during the day (say-do correspondance). A badge system is used to reinforce children who are using the social skill during play periods. At the end of the school day, the teachers asks the class to report on times when they received teacher praise for the social skill. A home-note system informs parents of the social skills being covered and the particular skill being targetted. A social skills would be practices for about 4 to 6 weeks interspersed with review of previously covered social skills.



These are some pictures from the program being implemented.


The teacher and facilitator (Penny Burlak) modelling the social skill - ³sharing².

A child roleplaying the social skill.

A few children practicing the social skill of sharing.


Badges being issued.

Reinforcing children for sharing. catching

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