Resources: Handouts

Resources: Executive Functioning

If you want to learn more about Executive Functioning, check out some of these websites:
Response Inhibition:
- Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems
- Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
- Waiting Is Not Easy by Mo Willems
- What Were You Thinking by Bryan Smith
- If You Ever Wanted to Bring an Alligator to School, Don’t by Elise Parsley
Working Memory:
- How Do I Remember All That? by Bryan Smith
Flexibility:
- My Day is Ruin by Bryan Smith
- Stuck by Oliver Jeffers
- The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Petty and Gary Rubenstein
Emotional Control:
- Wilma Jean the Worry Machine by Julia Cook
- My Mouth is a Volcano by Julia Cook
- Alphabreaths by Christopher Willard and Daniel Rechtschaffen
- Of Course It’s a Big Deal by Bryan Smith
Task Initiation:
- The Best Story by Eileen Spinelli
- Time to Get Started by Bryan Smith
Planning/Prioritizing:
- Planning Isn’t My Priority by Julia Cook
- I’ll Never Get All of That Done by Bryan Smith
Sustained Attention:
- Quiet by Tomie DePaola
- Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
- Fix It with Focus by Bryan Smith
- Are You Working Hard or Hardly Working? by Bryan Smith
Organization:
- I Can’t Find My Whatchamacallit by Julia Cook
- It Was Just Right Here by Bryan Smith
Metacognition and Persistence
- What’s the Problem? by Bryan Smith
- You Are a Social Detective by Michelle Garcia Winner
- The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires