Coaching children using "descriptive commenting” is a powerful way to build children's language & academic skills, social skills, and emotional literacy.
Describing and prompting children’s friendly behaviors is a powerful way to strengthen children’s social skills. Social skills are the first steps to making lasting friendships.
Describing children’s feelings is a powerful way to strengthen a child’s emotional literacy. Once children have emotion language, they will be able to better regulate their own emotions because they can tell you how they feel.
Group leaders can use these editable handouts to help parents set goals for the behaviors they will encourage through coaching and plan for how they will achieve their goals.
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