Book Description

Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens is a full-color, richly illustrated deck designed to help kids explore a variety of regulation tools and strategies to focus, calm, think, move, breathe, and connect. To be used in tandem with The Zones of Regulation – the curriculum book - the Tools to Try Cards for Tweens & Teens deck provides · New tools to add to your Zones of Regulation toolbox as explored in Chapter 4 of the published curriculum · Sensory, action-oriented, cognitive, movement-based, and interpersonal/relational strategies and activities · A tangible, visual teaching aid for use at school, at home, or in therapeutic and community settings · Opportunities for self-reflection to build awareness of each tool’s impact Each Tool to Try card is two-sided with a graphic of the tool on one side and description of the tool on the other side. The card includes a reflection on the bottom of the description side to allow tweens and teens to consider how the tool can be used to help them regulate their Zones. How does this Tweens & Teens deck compare to the separate Tools to Try for Kids deck? · 28 new tools are unique to just the tweens/teens deck (22 strategies appear in both decks). · The tweens/teens deck offers an additional feature addressing the “why” for using each tool. · Contains teen-appropriate, teen-friendly images, with an inclusive cast of characters. This tool deck is a supplement to, not a replacement for, the in-depth curriculum and lessons in The Zones of Regulation book. For best teaching practice the strategy deck should be used in tandem with Chapter 4 lessons in The Zones of Regulation curriculum book. The cards are also useful tools when paired with other Zones-related products, such as Navigating The Zones board game and the Advanced Pack.