Product Spotlight (part 1)- Green Box Kids Book 2: Compromise

              Today we’re going to take a look at one of the awesome products we have available for purchase on Teachers Pay Teachers! Compromise is the second installment of the Green Box Kids series of comics-based social skill development activity books for children with an autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, a developmental disorder, and other behavior disorders, developed by behavior analysts for special education teachers and specialists. In part 1 of today’s blog we’ll go over the structure of the book, then in part 2 we’ll go over how to use this book with students!

            Green Box Kids Book 2: Compromise starts with a few pages of introduction to the series and the characters before going over some guidelines for how to best use the activities inside with your student or students before getting into the activities. Every book has 3 different thematically-appropriate comics with matching pre-comic questions and supplemental activities for you to work through with your learner. We’re going to over just one of the comics titled The Pizza right now, but the rest of them are available through downloading the book on Teachers Pay Teachers.

            Before we look at the first comic, there are a few questions to get your learner thinking about compromise. They work great as discussion questions for both groups of learners working through the activities together or one-on-one with an individual learner.

            After the introduction questions, learners read over the comic, which sees Green Box Kids Tito, Lisa, and Richard trying to decide what toppings to put on their pizza. Tito adds lots of spices and onions to the pizza, even though Lisa and Richard tell him that they don’t like pizza with spices or onions. The comic ends with a social dilemma for your learners to work through: why Lisa and Richard are unhappy that Tito put spices and onions on the pizza? The book breaks down the comic piece by piece to help your learner analyze the characters’ facial expressions, body language, and words to understand what the dilemma is.

Once they’ve finished breaking the comic down, there are additional questions to encourage critical thinking and discussion among readers, analyzing each character’s actions and motivations. There are also supplemental activities that readers can do together to practice the compromise skills they’ve been discussing.

Finally, readers are encouraged to draw what they think Tito, Richard, and Lisa should do to resolve their dilemma with compromise before showing what one correct response in the comic could be. The book makes sure to acknowledge that there are lots of different ways the Green Box Kids could have compromised.

The book itself ends with behavior extension material for educators and instructors, including a compromise program that can be individualized for each learner and example data sheets that can be used in one-on-one or group settings.

We’ll go more into how and why to use these materials in part two, but if you’d like to see the full book right now, you can download it here at Teachers Pay Teachers!