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We love teaching executive function skills and habits to elementary learners!! This is such a great age to introduce the importance of these skills and start building routines and strategies. Does this fix every problem?! Of course not, but it helps build the language and habits of these essential learning skills early on in the brain’s development.🧠💡 Here’s how I teach executive function skills to elementary students: 🪝Use a hook to get learners interested in the skill. 📖Explicitly teach skill meanings. Often times a term like organization or focus is said a lot, but very vague in meaning to young learners. ❔Ask reflective questions to help learners think about their executive function strengths and challenges. 🛠️Teach multiple strategies and tools a student can use so they can practice and choose their favorite! For example, teach five different memory techniques to try out. 💭Practice the strategies again and again and again and again so they stick. 🎯 Use targeted games to support executive function skills strengthening in a fun way. For 12 ready to use lessons introducing different executive function skills, check out my Smarter Strategies course via 🔗 bio! . . . #educationaltherapy #executivefunction #learningresources #adhd #teachingresources

Parents always ask what academic skills they should work on during school breaks. And my number one recommendation is actually to let your kids have a well deserved break from academics, but pull out some family games to practice important executive function skills in an engaging way. Here are some of my current favorites that are fun for the whole family and develop the skills of planning, memory, organization, attention, direction, falling in so much more! ⭐️Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza ⭐️Six seconds scribbles ⭐️Word Search ⭐️Animal upon Animal . . . #educationaltherapy #executivefunction #

It’s time to make study plans for those end of the year tests and quizzes! Did you know studying involves so many different executive function skills? Students need to organize their papers, schedule times that they’re going to study, utilize working memory to recall important information, sustain focus for study periods, and much more. One of the most important parts of the process is encouraging students to study in advance to avoid last minute cramming. This five day study plan makes it easy to figure out what you should do each step of the study process! . . #educationaltherapy #executivefunction #studyskills

As the school year begins, many of us are assessing students academic skills, but also their executive function abilities. This checklist is a simple way for students to self reflect on their own executive function strengths and stretches and can be used for even early elementary learners. Sign up for our free resources via the link in bio to check out the teacher version of this as well! 🧠💡

SET isn’t just fun, it’s a workout for your mind. 💪🧠Learners practice visual discrimination, flexible thinking, and pattern recognition while racing to find sets of three. Every round strengthens focus, sharpens problem-solving skills, and increases perseverance (it’s not easy!!) Do your students like this game??

I 💙direction following activities so I thought why not mix them with decoding practice?! These puzzles helps learners practice carefully reading the directions and analyzing words in order to find the mystery word. This forces our speed readers to slow down and attend to details, creating the perfect combo of literacy and executive function learning. To try out several levels of word puzzles (CVC, CVCE and more!) for free, follow the link in bio to sign up for my email list or dm me your email address. 😀

This game is making my students giggle all week! 🐮🐍🐢🐅 Animal upon Animal is all about successfully stacking your animals in a pyramid, but it’s much harder than it looks! This game utilizes the skills of visual spatial perception and awareness, fine motor skills, self control, and more!!

One of my favorite initial assessments/ get to know you activities is two truths and a lie! This shows me a student’s:

✏️ability to generate complete sentences

✏️handwriting, spelling and proofreading skills

✏️initiation of a writing prompt

✏️some surprising fun facts!

Game on repeat all week!! Word Search has players race to find pictures that fit different categories or letter sounds. 🔎 Takes 30 seconds to set up and 5 minutes to play making it the perfect warm up or brain break. Use it to practice phonological awareness, rapid naming, vocabulary, flexibility, attention to detail and much more!

Anyone else love all the New York Times puzzles? Strands is a new favorite and I just found out you can make your own on https://customstrandsnyt.com/create. This is such a fun challenge for advanced learners! It’s a great way to review spelling patterns (this picture is for floss, -ck, -tch) and could also be used for vocabulary words or even with numbers for math facts. While I absolutely love these tricky puzzles, they aren’t for all learners and can be visually overwhelming for some so use wisely! 🪄

I love creating executive function resources for students! And I love sharing with other educators. 🫶 This executive function strategy cheatsheet is a great reminder to print out for sessions or home so the best and easiest strategies are right in front of you! To download for FREE, follow the link in bio to website. 💡🧠