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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

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!

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. 💡🧠