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Comprehension Guides – Topic Directory

K. Plummer Site — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 04:02:34 +0000

Comprehension guides support children when comprehension breakdown is a significant contributor to their emotional and behavioral problems in the classroom. Behavior intervention programs are frequently limited in their success, because they do not adequately address student understanding of what is expected and what to expect. This is especially the case with students who have trouble discerning the nuances of routines and situations.

Comprehension guides provide detailed and visually supported guidelines to illustrate what is expected and why. They help students understand the nuances of classroom routines and they increase the precision of behavior intervention programs.

» Improving Comprehension of the Nuances of Routine

Related Materials about Routines:

Using Classroom Routines to Create a Therapeutic Brain Settling Effect
Important Things to Remember about Routines
Guidelines for Using Routines
Social Emotional Learning Routines

» Working in a Group: Comprehension Materials
» Whole Class Instruction Comprehension Guide
» Warm up/ Staying Neutral Program: Directions
» Teacher Decisions: Comprehension Guide
» Taking a Break: Comprehension Guide
» Making an Adjustment: Comprehension Guide
» Clearing up Confusion: Comprehension Guide
» Good Sportsmanship and Self-Control in Competitive Games: Comprehension Guide
» Being a Good Sport: Comprehension Guide
» Blurting Out The Answer: Comprehension Guide

Please also see the Distress Tolerance Program – Guide to Materials, which includes a number of comprehension guides designed to support students in alleviating stress, frustration and feelings of being “worn out.”

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Brain-Based Therapeutic Intervention Programming for Children (BBTIPC)

K. Plummer Site — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:01:32 +0000

A therapeutic classroom provides children who have moderate to severe self-control and self-regulation problems (due to emotional, behavioral, social and academic development deficits) an opportunity to grow and develop in a highly supported school treatment environment. Growth and development is defined as the development of skills, development of coping strategies, development of productive relationships, and development of the person…

Also see: Therapeutic Intensity Rubrics for BBTIPC

Many more forms, ratings and BBTIPC-related articles may also be found here.

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Social Emotional Learning Routines

K. Plummer Site — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 16:34:10 +0000

The most effective social emotional learning efforts are the ones that happen in real time in the classroom (more so than the ones that are taught as lessons to the class). Use these routines to help students learn about and apply skills in common classroom situations—in real time— or when emotion rises to a high level and it is best to reset the situation before moving on. The resetting process is a reminder process and a way for students to return to an established skill set and established way of doing things in the classroom.

Reset Routines Below:
Reset for Patience • Reset for Neatness
Reset for Listening • Reset for Kind and Polite
Reset for Calm and Settled • Reset for Focus
Repairing a Communication Breakdown

Please also see:
Social Emotional Learning: Soft Skills for School and Life
Soft Skills Proficiency Criteria
Soft Skills Programming

Using Classroom Routines to Create a Therapeutic Brain Settling Effect
Important Things to Remember about Routines
Guidelines for Using Routines
Comprehension Guides Directory

Reset for Patience
Patience is a very important life skill and it is consistently embedded in social emotional learning efforts in schools.

Download Reset for Patience

Reset for Neatness
Use this routine spontaneously throughout the day (when the area becomes messy or disorganized or too chaotic) to settle and ground the students with a task of organization that also improves their surroundings.

Download Reset for Neatness

Reset for Listening
Use this routine spontaneously throughout the day when you find that students have become too relaxed about their learning habits and they need repeated reminders to use their listening skills.

Download Reset for Listening

Reset for Kind and Polite
Establish the culture in the classroom that prioritizes and values being kind and polite. For this culture to be established, it is essential that teachers practice it and model it themselves.

Download Reset for Kind and Polite

Reset for Calm and Settled
This routine should be led and modeled by the teacher. Watching an adult follow the routine will help to activate the students’ mirror neuron network to assist in bringing about the feeling of calm (provided that the teacher is actually achieving a calm state).

Download: Reset for Calm and Settled

Reset for Focus
Use this routine when the class is under responsive to repeated reminders to stay on track, or
when the students are too easily distracted by extraneous and unimportant activity.

Download: Reset for Focus

Repairing a Communication Breakdown
Use this routine to help students who get frustrated with explaining or asking for help or become agitated and sometimes jump to the wrong conclusion with teacher explanations.

Download: Repairing a Communication Breakdown

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Supporting Children and Ourselves: Coping during Covid 19

K. Plummer Site — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 17:05:51 +0000

The materials below include guidelines and specific ideas about how to Support Children Who are Home due to the corona virus.

There are also specialized Guidelines for Teachers to build connection and support students in a virtual classroom environment. Many of these materials are useful to both parents and teachers.

Also please see the Managing Pandemic Stress Toolkit to support caregivers, educators and healthcare providers, or anyone experiencing unprecedented stress during the corona virus pandemic.

There are also guides and tools to help you Prepare Yourself for the Return to School in the Fall. Including support for trauma-impacted children.

Support Children Who Are Home

Modules I-VIII are guidelines to help parents support their children while they are home from school during corona virus (Covid 19). Each module is a different component of support, because you may want to provide this information in smaller organized pieces. Modules are grouped, so please be sure to scroll through longer documents.

Module I: Structure Through Schedules and Routines
Module II: Attunement, Increasing the Quality of Adult Attention
Module III: Quiet Time, Solitary Time, Restore and Reset
Module IV: Promoting Positive Actions and Positive Emotions
Module V: Expressing Gratitude and Appreciation
Module VI: Information Control for Children
Module VII: Supportive Communication (Part 1)
Module VIII: Supportive Communication (Part 2)
Related Materials and Links (All Modules)

Introduction and Modules I, II, and III:
Support Your Children: Modules: I,II,II (pdf)

Modules IV and V:
Support Your Children: Modules: IV and V (pdf)

Modules VI, VII, VIII:
Support Your Children: Modules: VI – VIII (pdf)

Please also see: Additional Related Materials/Links for Modules I-VIII

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Materials to support teachers managing virtual classrooms:

Promoting Engagement in a Virtual Classroom
Achieving Social Connectedness While Physically Distant: The Appreciation Journal
Building on Your Student Relationships: Staying Attuned in a Virtual Classroom
Building on Your Student Relationships: Recognition and Reward
Related Materials for Teachers (All Articles, Guidelines/Links)
Engaging Less Motivated Students: A Checklist of Intervention Options for Virtual Classrooms
Student Performance During Distance Learning – Rating Form


Promoting Engagement in a Virtual Classroom (pdf)	Achieving Connectedness While Physically Distant (pdf)

Staying Attuned in a Virtual Classroom (pdf)	Relationship Development: Recognition (pdf)

Engaging Less Motivated Students (pdf)	Related Materials for Teachers (pdf)

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The Pandemic Stress Management Toolkit for caregivers, educators and healthcare providers.

Stress during this pandemic is like no other stress we’ve experienced before, which is why large numbers of educators and service providers are breaking down and experiencing uncontrolled stress responses. Many of our normal and automatic means of coping are inadequate for this increased demand. We need to be more deliberate in our efforts to reset the stress response ourselves. The following toolkit gives specific instruction to support individuals to interrupt the stress response and reset their brains and bodies.

Taking Care of Yourself During the Pandemic: Understanding Unprecedented Stress (pdf)	The Pandemic Stress Management Toolkit: Interrupting the Stress Response (pdf)

Teachers of the Pandemic	Reflection on the Pandemic

Go to: Prepare for Your Return to School

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Taking a Break: Comprehension Guide

K. Plummer Site — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 15:54:22 +0000

This comprehension guide is intended to improve student comprehension of restorative breaks (https://kevinplummerphd.com/restorative-breaks/). See Improving Comprehension of the Nuances of Routines and Social Comprehension Breakdown for further explanation of the social comprehension problems that students experience in learning new routines…

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Restorative Breaks

K. Plummer Site — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:01:24 +0000

A restorative break can be used to help children who are perseverating on or “stuck” on a particular problem and it can be used to cope with a generalized rising stress level. ASD, ADHD, and mood dysregulated children, for example, often find their tolerance for schoolwork diminishing more rapidly than it does for the typical student…

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Impulsive Responding Program – Directions

K. Plummer Site — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:58:55 +0000

This program is designed to increase greater self-control in students who are verbally impulsive. This includes behavior such as, frequent interrupting by letting thoughts turn into unsolicited comments, speaking out and sharing ideas without waiting to be called on, and asking questions without first raising a hand and getting permission.

The Impulsive Responding Program is a type of “Coupon Program”…

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Impulsive Responding Coupons
Impulsive Responding Book
Impulsive Responding Story

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Impulsive Responding Coupons

K. Plummer Site — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:46:50 +0000

Printable coupons for use in the Impulsive Responding Program.

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Impulsive Responding Story – A Comprehension Guide

K. Plummer Site — Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:40:25 +0000

Hold Onto Your Thoughts

Sometimes while you’re doing your work quietly at your desk and the teacher is working with other students, you get an idea or you think of something to say and you want to share it with the teacher right away…

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Related Articles:

Impulsive Responding Program (directions)
Impulsive Responding Coupons
Impulsive Responding Book
Impulsive Responding Story

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