Product Spotlight- Green Box Kids Book 1: Sharing

Sharing is one of the most important skills we try to teach our students, and it’s something they’re going to need to use every day for the rest of their lives. Even as adults, sharing is something we do all the time, so much so that it’s jarring when someone doesn’t share; how many times have you waited for a machine at the gym or an electrical outlet at a coffee shop and been absolutely bewildered when the other person using them failed to share? We know sharing is tough for all kids, and it can be even more difficult to help kids with behavioral and developmental disabilities understand all of the various social elements that comprise good sharing. We’ve created another social skills training curriculum book to address those very difficulties in a format that is both fun and engaging for both you and your learners. We’ve talked at length about another book in the Green Box Kids series, Compromise, and we’ve brought the same commitment to excellence and accessibility to Sharing, now available on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Sharing has the same format as Compromise: discussion questions before and after each of the three comics in the book to boost critical thinking about the topic, plus supplemental activities that expand upon those questions. In addition to fostering discussion about the basics of sharing, this book goes into situations when sharing may not be appropriate by asking learners questions like these:

Our focus here is not just to help learners understand what sharing is, but why sharing is important to their lives. What makes Green Box Kids: Sharing different from other curriculum books on Sharing is that it encourages learners to examine sharing from multiple perspectives. Additionally, although each social dilemma presented in the comics has an example of a resolution, the book also encourages the readers to think of their own solutions. For example, the first comic in the book sees Tito and Lucy playing an active game of soccer, but Tito has forgotten his water bottle. Before showing the readers what the Green Box Kids do to fix the problem, there’s an opportunity for the reader to draw what they think would be a good way to help Tito:

Instead of just telling readers what the best answer is, this book encourages them to think for themselves and consider the options their peers came up with.

Our social skills training curriculum books are more than just social group activities, they’re the building blocks of happy, sociable adults. When you buy our book on Sharing, you’re getting comics along with improved social skills and better, more productive social group sessions. As with all of our books, the material in Green Box Kids: Sharing are the product of years of working with kids who have autism spectrum disorders and other behavioral or developmental disorders, as well as years of training and education. More importantly, when you buy our books you’re buying the product of our sincere desire for kids on the spectrum to have a better quality of life and an easier time adjusting to social situations outside of supervised social group. Our kids love Green Box Kids, and we’re confident that yours will too.