• Provide opportunities to make structured decisions, such as, “Do you want to wear the blue
shirt or the red shirt?” Extend choices across food, clothing, activity, and other activities.
• Provide opportunities to generate choices that are both positive and negative, such as, “We
have 10 more minutes. What could we do?” and “You spilled your milk. What could you
do to clean it up?”
• Provide formative and constructive feedback on the consequences of choices made in the
recent past, such as, “When you pushed hard on the pencil it broke. What might you want
to do the next time?” and “When you used an angry tone, I didn’t do what you wanted.
What could you do differently?”
• Provide opportunities for planning activities that are pending, such as, “You need to choose
a dress to wear to the wedding,” or “Decide what kind of sandwich you want to take for
lunch tomorrow.”
• Provide opportunities for self-evaluative task performance by comparing personal work to
a model. Point out similarities, such as, “Look, you used nice colors too, just like this one.”
and “Do you see that you both drew the man from the side?”
• Ask directive questions so that the child compares his or her performance to a model, such
as, “Are all of your toys in the basket, too?” or “I’ll know you’re ready for the story when
you are sitting on your mat with your legs crossed, your hands on your knees, and your
eyes on me.”