Thanksgiving Social Stories Bundle | Special Education | EDITABLE

This Thanksgiving social story bundle supports learner understanding around a lot of big changes for the Thanksgiving holiday: from food, schedule differences, traditions, and more!

Who needs another task to add to their workload? Not you! It can take a lot of extra time to have to create your own social story every time you need one for your student, but we take out the guesswork and save you a lot of time with this social story. And if you need to make adjustments to this social story, you totally can! It's EDITABLE!

The social stories from Autism Grown Up specifically focus on the learner experience, and how they can meet their goals.

THANKSGIVING SOCIAL STORIES:

1. What to Expect on Thanksgiving Break
2. Plans for Thanksgiving
3. My Eating Schedule on Thanksgiving
4. What Am I Eating for Thanksgiving
5. What Am I Thankful For
6. New Foods At Thanksgiving

WHAT’S INSIDE EACH SOCIAL STORY?

Resource Guide

• About the Resource
• Using the Resource
• Resource Walkthrough

Printable Social Story

• Full page PDF
• 10+ pages
• Real photos paired with text

Digital Social Story Booklet

• Editable
• 10+ pages
• Available in PowerPoint and in Google Slides
• Real photos paired with text (and text boxes to edit and customize language as needed to be more specific and individualized to the learner’s needs)

EDITABLE TO INDIVIDUALIZE

We know that it can be impossible to find a one size fits all strategy, so this social story is editable, so you can customize it (add your learner's name, change a picture, and the why).

PREPARATION

Print and bind into a book or just read it digitally on any of your devices.

MEETS SOCIAL STORY RESEARCH-BASED CRITERIA

Written from student perspective using positive language (what do we want the learner to feel empowered to do?!) - moving away from what we see as the challenging behavior.

NEURODIVERSITY-AFFIRMING

This employs a strengths-based approach as well, meaning that we center on how a resource like this can support the learning instead of honing in what they are doing wrong

ACROSS SUPPORT NEEDS

Social stories can be used for learners across the spectrum and support needs because our social stories can be differentiated. This social story can be used for learners with varying reading levels (emergent and conventional). We use a combination of real photos and shorter sentences – which also help older students who read at grade level. Depending on the individual, when they are in an escalated state, it’s less pressure to process clear, simple input.

You can email us at hello@autismgrownup.com if you have any feedback, questions, and/or requests for resources.