Social Skills Story BUNDLE | Conversation, Social Skills & Friendship with Games

Enhance your students' social and emotional skills with our easy-prep social skills story packs! These packs offer social narratives, task cards, games, strategies and social emotional learning activities to boost confidence in building friendships and mastering social and conversation skills. Ideal for Special Education, PreK, and Kindergarten settings.

17 Social Skills Story Packs Included in This Bundle:

Friendship Topics

• Being a Good Friend/Being a Kind Friend
• How to Make New Friends
• Turn Taking
• Sharing
• Being a Good Sport (winning and losing)
• Being Flexible with Friends

Conversation Skill Topics

• Getting Someone's Attention
• Starting a Conversation
• Staying on Topic
• Listening in Conversations
• Joining a Conversation
• Ending a Conversation

Social Skill Topics

• Giving and Receiving Compliments
• Greetings
• Interrupting
• Saying Sorry
• Being Polite (saying please, thank you and excuse me)

Every Social Skills Story Pack Includes:

• Long and short version of the social story. Tailor your approach to suit each student's needs and preferences, whether it's a detailed social skills narrative or a concise one-sheet format.
• We don't just provide stories; our packs include a treasure trove of proven strategies and creative ideas to enhance engagement and ensure successful implementation in across learning environments.
• Interactive Teaching: Engage your students with our expertly designed games and social emotional learning activities designed to facilitate comprehension and reinforce vital social skills in a fun and interactive way.
• Both color and black & white versions. Print in color to captivate attention or opt for black & white for easy photocopying - the choice is yours!
• Longer social stories are thoughtfully crafted with more language, step-by-step social skills guides and lots of real-life examples, immersing students deeper into the social context for enhanced learning.
• The shorter, one-sheet stories not only deliver valuable lessons concisely but also double as eye-catching posters. Pin them to walls or desks to create a visually stimulating learning environment.
• Color coded borders for easy organisation and storage

How this bundle will support your students learning needs:

1. Increased Engagement: Students are more likely to participate and stay focused when presented with visually appealing and relatable social stories.
2. Improved Comprehension: The combination of narratives, visuals, and interactive activities reinforces social skills and boosts understanding.
3. Tailored Learning: Choose the appropriate story format for each student, addressing their unique learning needs and preferences.
4. Skill Application: The inclusion of games and activities facilitates skill practice, promoting real-life application and retention of learned social behaviors.
5. Positive Behavior Management: Social stories provide proactive guidance, promoting positive behavior and reducing the likelihood of challenging situations.
6. Boosted Social Confidence: By understanding social cues and appropriate responses, students gain the confidence to engage in social interactions.
7. Social Emotional Learning: Teaching social skills in tandem with emotional learning activities nurtures well-rounded, emotionally intelligent individuals.

Starting a Conversation: This story is intended for students who are finding it difficult to initiate conversations with people. They might not know how to take the steps towards initiating a conversation and/or they’re unable to generate ideas of things to say at the beginning of a conversation. The story covers examples and context for how and when to start conversations with people and gives clear steps on achieving this goal.

Comprehension Activity: Task Cards where your student is given a picture of a person with a short bio about them. They then use the skills they have learned in the social skills story to generate ideas of things to say to the person to start a conversation with them. Also encouraging students to role play the task cards using the 6 steps from the social story.

Getting Someone's Attention: This story is intended for students who are not yet appropriately getting people’s attention. They might be too abruptly starting a conversation or engaging in inappropriate behaviours in order to gain attention. The story covers examples and context for how and when to get people’s attention and gives 4 clear strategies for getting people’s attention politely, depending on the social context.

Comprehension Activity: Task Cards where your student is given a social scenario and needs to identify how best to get the person’s attention. Encourage students to role play the scene at the end using the answers they have given on the task card. This packet also includes color and B&W blank task cards where you can add any real-life gaining attention scenarios which your student would benefit from practicing.

Giving and Receiving Compliments: This story pack is intended for students who need a little extra support in giving people compliments. The story and task card activities alsop include how and when to receive compliments. Areas covered: complimenting someone on something they have or are wearing and complimenting someone on an achievement.

Comprehension Activity: Visual Task Cards where your student is given a 1-2 sentence description of a social scenario and they then identify what they could say to either give or receive a compliment.

Staying on Topic: This story pack is intended for students who are finding it difficult to stay on topic during conversations. They might find it difficult generating ideas of extra things to say about a topic or they might have a highly preferred topic which they don’t want to switch from talking about. The story covers examples and context for how and when to stay on topic during conversations and how and when it might be appropriate to change to a related topic.

Comprehension Activity: A fun and interactive card game to give your student lots of practice with staying on topic in conversation. Students take it in turns asking questions and making comments about a chosen topic. Surprise cards included to keep it fun and varied: take an extra turn, give a card to a friend or change to a related topic.

Listening in Conversation: This story is intended for students who are not yet listening to their conversation partners when having conversations. They might be talking too much and dominating the conversation or not showing listening skills when the other person is talking. The social skills story covers 2 easy steps to take when wanting to show you’re listening in a conversation. It also discusses conversation balance and when to pause and ask questions.

Comprehension Activity: Conversation Game where each player has a scale visual which they fill in as they LISTEN and TALK in the conversation. Keeping the conversation balanced will help the players reach the top of the visual and win!

Joining a Conversation: This story pack is intended for students who are not yet confidently or appropriately joining in conversations. This social story covers 4 easy steps to take when wanting to join a conversation from listening to the conversation topic, thinking about what you can add or say, waiting for a pause in the conversation and then speaking. It also discusses conversation balance and when to pause and ask questions. The story covers examples and context for how and when to join a conversation.

Comprehension Activity: Task Cards where your student is given a simple outline of a conversation already taking place and your student needs to generate ideas of things they could say about that topic when they join the conversation.

Ending Conversations: This story pack is intended for students who are not yet appropriately ending conversations. They might be too abruptly ending conversations or just walking away while the other person is still talking. The story covers examples and context for how and when to end a conversation and gives 3 clear steps to take to end a conversation politely.

Comprehension Activity: Task Cards or Worksheets where your student is given a social scenario and has to use the three step rules to identify how best to end each pretend conversation. Task Cards also encourage students to role play the scene at the end using the answers they have given on the task card. This pack also includes a blank task card where you can add any real life ending conversation scenarios which your student would benefit from practicing.

Greetings: This story pack is intended for students who need a little extra support in initiating and responding to greetings from familiar and new people. The story and task card activities also include how and when to give greetings and when not to e.g. when you have already greeted someone shortly before.

Comprehension Activity: 8 Visual Task Cards where your student is given a 1-2 sentence description of a social scenario and they then identify what they could say to either initiate or respond to a greeting.

Interrupting: This story pack is intended for students who are not yet understanding when and how to interrupt people politely in conversation. How to find a gap in conversation to ‘interrupt’ with something to say and what the signs are that it is now your turn to speak. This story pairs really well with role play where you can play out lots of scenarios for the student to practice when and when not to interrupt and how to do it appropriately.

Comprehension Activity: Task Cards where your student role plays different social examples and practices either finding a ‘good time’ to interrupt or to wait and look for the signs when it is their turn to speak in conversation.

Saying Sorry: This story pack is intended for students who are not yet apologising to people when they hurt them physically or hurt their feelings.

• It looks at the steps of how and when to say sorry to friends and family and how to receive an apology too.
• It covers how people might feel when they are hurt and how saying sorry will help them feel better.

Comprehension Activity: Task Cards where your student is given a social scenario and has to identify who is hurt and what they could say to make them feel better. Task Cards also cover how people might feel from both perspectives. Blank task cards are included too so you can individualise to any specific social context.

Being Polite: This story is intended for learners who need some support in using polite social skills phrases such as "thank you", "please" and "excuse me". The story will discuss when, where and how to use these.

Comprehension Activity: Task Cards

Making New Friends & Asking them to Play: This story is intended for students who find it difficult to make friends. They might not yet know the different steps to take to make new friends or feel nervous in taking these steps towards new friendships. Pack includes 50 pages of stories, games and activities! The Social Skills Story element of this pack explores:

1. What new friends are and why they're important
2. Different places where you might meet new friends
3. 4 easy steps to follow when making new friends
4. Language to use while introducing yourself, asking your new friend to play with you and getting to know your friend
5. Good/not good 'Making Friends' behaviors
6. What to do if you’re finding it difficult or feel nervous making new friends

Teaching & Comprehension Activities Included in this Pack:

1. Making Friends Board Game where students can have real life practice getting to know their friend by asking and answering a range of simple conversational questions about each other.
2. Sorting Activity where your student has the opportunity to sort social behaviors into 2 categories ‘good making friends’ and ‘not good making friends’. 21 visual behavior cards included, for example, sharing and taking turns, introducing yourself, asking questions, bad language, hurting your friend’s feelings. With lots of cards to choose from, you can pick and mix the cards you would like to include with your student to individualise this task specifically for them.
3. Role Play or Practice Checklist outlining the steps included within the story for Making Friends so your student can check off these behaviors when practicing or role playing making new friends.

Being a Good Friend: This 'being a good friend' social skills story pack is designed for students who are not yet establishing meaningful friendships or who don’t yet understand the key behaviors involved in being a kind friend to someone. Exploring 7 key social skills required for being a kind friend:

• sharing,
• turn taking,
• using kind words,
• playing games that were not your choice (accepting other people’s choices),
• playing games in different ways (flexible play),
• asking friends to play (initiating interactions)
• having gentle hands and feet

4 Teaching & Comprehension Activities Included in this Pack:

• 8 Task Cards outlining a social friendship scenario where your student is asked to identify if the context is an example of being a ‘good friend’ or ‘not being a good friend’. The student can either say or point to ‘good friend’ or ‘not being a good friend” visual options at the bottom of each task card.
• Sorting Activity where your student has the opportunity to sort social behaviors into 2 categories ‘being a good friend’ and ‘not being a good friend’. 36 visual behavior cards included, for example, helping my friend, asking my friend to play, giving a friend a hug, saying “I’m sorry”, pulling hair, stealing from my friend. With lots of cards to choose from, you can pick and mix the cards you would like to include with your student to individualise this task specifically for them.
• Two Themed Token Boards containing a visual list of good friendship behaviors so you can set up a system for reinforcing good friendship behavior throughout the day. Theme one: space and astronauts with star tokens. Theme two: unicorn with rainbow tokens.
• Random Acts of Kindness/Friendship Cards (12) to give your student lots of opportunity throughout the day to practice being a good friend. Example cards: tell a friend something you like about them, let a friend go in front of you in line, let a friend play with your favorite toy. You can also pair this activity with a friendship token board where your student can earn a token each time they complete a random act of friendship. I’ve also included blank random acts of friendship cards so you can make up your own based on your student’s current skill level with this concept.

Turn Taking with Friends: This Turn Taking social skills story pack explores:

1. What turn taking is and why it’s important
2. Different games and toys which we might need to take turns with
3. 4 EASY steps to follow for good turn taking
4. Language to use while taking turns with friends
5. Good/not good turn taking behaviors
6. What to do if you’re finding it difficult taking turns with friends

4 Teaching & Comprehension Activities Included in this Pack:

• Taking Turns Board Game where students can have real life practice taking turns with friends. Students will also get to feel and experience emotions associated with winning, losing, missing a turn and getting an extra turn.
• 8 Turn Taking Visual Schedules so you can use the schedule most fitting to the game or activity. Some schedules also include timer visuals for each turn (2, 5, 10, minutes) so your students can build up their tolerance for waiting their turn. Includes both fixed and interactive schedules.
• Sorting Activity where your student has the opportunity to sort social behaviors into 2 categories ‘good turn taking’ and ‘not good turn taking’. 24 visual behavior cards included, for example, offering a friend a turn, waiting your turn, deciding who goes first, bad language, hurting your friend’s feelings. With lots of cards to choose from, you can pick and mix the cards you would like to include with your student to individualise this task specifically for them.
• Two Themed Token Boards containing a visual list of good turn taking behaviors so you can set up a system for reinforcing good turn taking behavior throughout games and activities. Theme one: board game with dice tokens. Theme two: child blowing bubbles with bubble tokens.

Being a Good Sport: designed for students who find it difficult losing games or who don’t yet understand how to be a good sport. This social skills story pack explores:

1. The meaning of being a good sport and what not being a good sport looks like.
2. Simple calming strategies which your student can use to help keep calm if they lose a game.
3. Things they can say if they win (so they don’t make others feel bad)
4. How it might feel to lose a game.
5. Kind words you can say to someone if they win a game.

4 Teaching & Comprehension Activities Included in this Pack:

• Being a Good Sport Board Game where students have real life practice being a good sport and answering very simple ‘good sport’ themed questions. Students will also get to feel and experience emotions associated with winning, losing and missing a turn.
• 12 Task Cards outlining a sportsmanship scenarios where your student is asked to identify if the context is an example of being a ‘good sport’ or ‘not being a good sport’. The student can either say or point to ‘good sport’ or ‘not being a good sport” visual options at the bottom of each task card.
• Sorting Activity where your student has the opportunity to sort good sport social behaviors into 2 categories ‘being a good sport’ and ‘not being a good sport’. 24 visual behavior cards included, for example, saying “well done” to the winner, cheering a team, following rules, helping friends, bad language, hurting your friend’s feelings. With lots of cards to choose from, you can pick and mix the cards you would like to include with your student to individualise this task specifically for them.
• Three Themed Token Boards containing a visual list of good sportsmanship behaviors so you can set up a system for reinforcing good sport behavior throughout games and activities. Theme one: running race with medal tokens. Theme two: board game with medal tokens. Theme three: Basketball game with basketball tokens.

Sharing with Friends: This sharing story pack is intended for students who find it difficult sharing toys with friends or family members. This sharing social skills story explores:

• what sharing is and why it’s important,
• what sharing looks like with common toys and games,
• language to use while sharing with friends,
• good/not good sharing behaviors,
• what to do if you’re finding it difficult sharing with friends.

4 Teaching & Comprehension Activities Included in this Pack:

1. Sharing Practice Cards where students can have real life practice sharing with friends. Examples of cards: share and make a puzzle with a friend, share crayons and color a picture with a friend, share a book with a friend, sing a song with a friend.
2. Sharing Visual Scripts to support students in using language surrounding sharing and requesting to share activities.
3. Sharing Communication Cards which include short phrases your students can use if they are finding sharing difficult. A great alternative to engaging in problem behaviour to escape sharing.
4. Themed Sharing Token Board containing a visual list of good sharing behaviors so you can set up a system for reinforcing good sharing behavior throughout games and activities.

Being Flexible with Friends is intended for students who find it difficult to be flexible during play with friends. Aimed to support students and give them a clear and simple understanding of when and how to be flexible with a wide range of toys and games.

Social skills story explores:

1. What being flexible is and why it’s important when playing with friends
2. What being flexible looks like with common toys and games
3. What to do if you’re finding it difficult being flexible with friends

2 Teaching & Comprehension Activities Included in this Pack:

• 6 Being Flexible Practice Cards where students can have real life practice being flexible with a range of toys and games (color and B&W).
• 8 Being Flexible Task Cards where students are given a short and simple description of a play scenario between two friends and your student is then asked to identify if this is an example of “being flexible” or “not being flexible” (color and B&W).

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