Executive Functioning Activities: Exercises and Strategies to Engage Your Child and Help Them Organize Their Thoughts

by Melissa Rose

Build executive functioning skills while having a blast—for kids 4 to 12

Strong executive functioning skills are critical to thriving at school, at home, and beyond. Of course, some children need a little assistance when it comes to things like time management or self-control—and that’s perfectly okay! This workbook is full of engaging activities, crafts, and games to help kids and parents build those skills together.

Executive function basics—Learn how children typically develop executive functioning skills, all while exploring the different facets like task initiation, impulse control, working memory, and organization.Evidence-based strategies—Discover a variety of positive techniques as you work toward helping your child improve behavior, limit frustrations, and build intrinsic motivation.Engaging activities—Foster skills like flexibility and planning through play, with 100+ games and exercises created to target specific areas of executive functioning, including Freeze Dance and Feelings Forecast.

Set your child up for success with this effective executive functioning workbook for kids.

199 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 23, 2022

Reviews

[Denisa Ostas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book came in at the right moment, right before starting school. I’ve perused several books with educational games (emotional, social, executive functioning, manners), but this one has the activities so well traced and explained.
In an accessible way, short and comprehensive, each game is set with a goal, supplies, tips and discussions. You will find relevant games for your child (4-12 years old, but I think you can apply some of them under 4 yearsold) aimed to mastering his/hers impulse, training the memory, managing emotions, improving attention, startung tasks, planning and organizing, being flexible.
The book is beneficial to teachers, parents, counselors, anyone working with children.

[Andrea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Executive Functioning Activities is a wonderful, easy to use book for both parents and educators. The books is nicely laid out with an easy to read explanation to parents of what executive functioning is and how it affects children. I especially love the "key takeaways" at the end of each chapter. This is a nice touch to sum up each section. The activities are simple and easy to implement. The duration of each activity is very manageable and I feel that even though this book is geared towards children ages 4-12, they could easily be adapted for older students. Overall this is an excellent resource that I intend to use for both my classroom and my own child. Thank you to Rockridge Press for this advanced readers copy.

[Lauren · Rating 4 out of 5]

I bought this book to learn strategies to help my child with executive function training. The book was well-written and accessible for people (like me) who aren't educators but who want to help their child. Highly recommend.