Description: Teach adolescents to glean information from a variety of sources to make accurate inferences about social situations and respond appropriately. The activity pages are filled with graphic organizers and interesting photos. The lessons give students specific, clear directions and teach them to: use dialog and questioning to make inferences about occupation, location, and action make inferences about social situations from body language and photographs explore social expectations and social status organize and use basic information to make accurate inferences make appropriate social comments understand and interpret indirect requests judge intentions and understand These learning strategies are used to give students practice in interpersonal negotiation: explicit instruction modeling observation discussion role-playing other guided practice The lessons can be presented to individual students or small groups of students. You may purchase Making Social Inferences individually or as a 6-book set. The 6-book set consists of: Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent Conversations Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent Emotions Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent Getting Along Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent Interpersonal Negotiation Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent Making Social Inferences Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent Nonverbal Language

Author: LoGIUDICE, Carolyn / JOHNSON, Paul

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 2008

Grade: Age 11 -18

Format: SOFTCOVER/REPRODUCIBLE