{"product_id":"making-keeping-friends-ready-to-use-lessons-stories-and-activities-for-building-relationships-grades-4-8-paperback","title":"Making \u0026 Keeping Friends: Ready-To-Use Lessons, Stories, and Activities for Building Relationships, Grades 4-8 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn J. Schmidt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unique program helps counselors teach students how to make and keep friends as they learn about themselves, others, and the nature of friendships. Organized into nine sections, from (1) Understanding Friendships and (2) Becoming Friends to (9) Sending Yourself Invitations, and printed in a wire-bound format for easy-copying of 70 activity sheets and role-play scripts with the lessons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe program presents a specific process for creating and developing relationships, and places responsibility on the individual student to create messages that invite friendships. It shows students, step by step, how to form strong, lasting friendships by being more inviting toward themselves and toward others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor easy use, you'll find materials are organized into nine sections, each section focusing on important ideas about inviting friendships. Following is an overview of each section: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eUNDERSTANDING FRIENDSHIP explores friendships as a vital part of life, factors that influence friendships, and characteristics of successful friendships and includes role plays and activities such as The Loner, Giving Support and My Kind of Friend.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBECOMING FRIENDS presents steps students can use to form and keep friendships with a variety of activities\/role plays like Finding Trust and Who's on Your List?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLEARNING ABOUT INVITATIONS introduces students to invitations as positive messages for building long-lasting friendships and contrasts them to disinvitations in activities\/role plays like Self-Invitation, Lucky Interview, and Word Play.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFOUR LEVELS OF ENCOURAGING OR DISCOURAGING FRIENDSHIP combines invitations, disinvitations, and intentions into four levels of functioning and teaches students about perceptions in activities such as Inviting Qualities and What Do You See?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eKNOWING YOURSELF explores how people see themselves and how the self develops and changes during a person's life, and includes activities\/role plays such as Assessing Your Physical Self, Picture Yourself and Self-Concept List\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCREATING INVITATIONS TO FRIENDSHIPS presents six steps for being an inviting friend and explores ideas about when to invite, why to invite and whom to invite in activities such as Draw an Invitation and The Invitation role play.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMAKING CHOICES \u0026amp; RESOLVING DIFFERENCES examines the four choices we make when inviting friends (send, not send, accept, not accept) through activities like When Not to Send and the role play Play Ball!\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCHOOSING POSITIVE BEHAVIORS stresses the importance of positive behaviors in building successful relationships in activities\/role plays such as Evaluating Behaviors and The Home Page.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSENDING YOURSELF INVITATIONS describes the importance of students' sending themselves positive messages and staying physically, emotionally and mentally fit, and includes activities like Overcoming the Odds and the role play Mirror, Mirror on the Wall.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs further help, each section begins with Group Leader Instructions, including an overview, objectives, and a description of the activities, role plays, and special vocabulary used. Gold Nugget ideas throughout the program help stimulate student discussion about friendship and simple cartoons bring life to ideas about inviting and disinviting behaviors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn short, \u003cb\u003eMaking and Keeping Friends\u003c\/b\u003e places in your hands a proven, ready-to-use curriculum for group discussion and guidance lessons dealing with friendship, conflict resolution, and self-development. This program gives your students a specific framework and language for examining their own behaviors and developing healthy relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe program presents a specific process for creating and developing relationships, and places responsibility on the individual student to create \"messages\" that invite friendships. It shows students, step by step, how to form strong, lasting friendships by being more inviting toward themselves and toward others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor easy use, you'll find materials are organized into nine sections, each section focusing on important ideas about inviting friendships. Following is an overview of each section: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eUNDERSTANDING FRIENDSHIP explores friendships as a vital part of life, factors that influence friendships, and characteristics of successful friendships and includes role plays and activities such as The Loner, Giving Support and My Kind of Friend.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBECOMING FRIENDS presents steps students can use to form and keep friendships with a variety of activities\/role plays like Finding Trust and Who's on Your List?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLEARNING ABOUT INVITATIONS introduces students to \"invitations\" as positive messages for building long-lasting friendships and contrasts them to \"disinvitations\" in activities\/role plays like Self-Invitation, Lucky Interview, and Word Play.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFOUR LEVELS OF ENCOURAGING OR DISCOURAGING FRIENDSHIP combines invitations, disinvitations, and intentions into four levels of functioning and teaches students about perceptions in activities such as Inviting Qualities and What Do You See?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eKNOWING YOURSELF explores how people \"see\" themselves and how the self develops and changes during a person's life, and includes activities\/role plays such as Assessing Your Physical Self, Picture Yourself and Self-Concept List\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCREATING INVITATIONS TO FRIENDSHIPS presents six steps for being an inviting friend and explores ideas about when to invite, why to invite and whom to invite in activities such as Draw an Invitation and The Invitation role play.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMAKING CHOICES \u0026amp; RESOLVING DIFFERENCES examines the four choices we make when inviting friends (send, not send, accept, not accept) through activities like When Not to Send and the role play Play Ball!\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCHOOSING POSITIVE BEHAVIORS stresses the importance of positive behaviors in building successful relationships in activities\/role plays such as Evaluating Behaviors and The Home Page.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSENDING YOURSELF INVITATIONS describes the importance of students' sending themselves positive messages and staying physically, emotionally and mentally fit, and includes activities like Overcoming the Odds and the role play Mirror, Mirror on the Wall.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs further help, each section begins with Group Leader Instructions, including an overview, objectives, and a description of the activities, role plays, and special vocabulary used. \"Gold Nugget\" ideas throughout the program help stimulate student discussion about friendship and simple cartoons bring life to ideas about inviting and disinviting behaviors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn short, \u003cb\u003eMaking and Keeping Friends\u003c\/b\u003e places in your hands a proven, ready-to-use curriculum for group discussion and guidance lessons dealing with friendship, conflict resolution, and self-development. This program gives your students a specific framework and language for examining their own behaviors and developing healthy relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn J. Schmidt, Ed.D\u003c\/b\u003e., is professor and chair of the Counselor and Adult Education Department in the School of Education at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. During his career he has been a social studies teacher, an elementary, middle and high school counselor, a district director of counseling and testing services, and state coordinator of school counseling with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 11.14 x 8.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47510213689522,"sku":"9780787966263","price":36.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/IUyr7Ukox_9780787966263.webp?v=1779644676","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/making-keeping-friends-ready-to-use-lessons-stories-and-activities-for-building-relationships-grades-4-8-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}