Friendship Social Skills Stories with Games and Activities | Being a Good Friend

Enhance your student's social skills with our Friendship Social Skills Story Bundle! Featuring engaging social skill stories, task cards, games, and social emotional learning activities, this bundle provides a fun and comprehensive way to build confidence in making new friends, being a good friend, turn-taking, being a good sport, sharing, and being flexible with friends.

Perfect for students in special education, preK, and kindergarten and applicable to home and school settings.

What other educators are saying about this social skills story bundle:

• "These stories have been wonderful to use in our classroom! Some are in our cozy/calm down corner, others in our library. My students gravitate towards them, and they are well written, follow social story guidelines, and have great resources". (Vrinda M.)
• "This was so helpful. I used this with my whole class although originally purchased it to use it with a child with ASD. It helped all of my students!" (Kaylie B.)
• "Amazing friendship package! I love your social stories...they are so engaging and provide the targeted intervention my students need! Keep making more!" (Charmaine B.)

Social Skills Topics Included in This Bundle:

1. Making New Friends
2. Being a Good Friend/Being a Kind Friend
3. Turn Taking
4. Being a Good Sport (winning and losing)
5. Sharing
6. Being Flexible with Friends

Each Social Skills Story Pack Includes:

• A longer 4-6 page story with more detail and lots of examples of the social skill in action. Includes social scripts and when and how to use them.
• One page social skill story for each topic so you can present the format most appropriate for each student. Perfect as a reference guide, poster or desk reminder.
• Strategies and ideas for use
• 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.
• Color and black and white versions of all stories and task cards.
• Color coded borders for easy organisation and storage

RESOURCE 1: 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 Skill 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.

RESOURCE 2: Being a Good Friend

This 'being a good friend' social skill 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.

RESOURCE 3: Turn Taking with Friends

This Turn Taking Social Skill 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.

RESOURCE 4: Being a Good Sport

'Being a Good Sport' or 'Winning and Losing' Social Skill Story and Activity Pack. Designed for students who find it difficult losing games or who don’t yet understand how to be a good sport.

This social skill 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.

RESOURCE 5: Sharing with Friends

This sharing social skill story pack is intended for students who find it difficult sharing toys with friends or family members.

This sharing social skill 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.

RESOURCE 6: Being Flexible with Friends

This 'Being Flexible with Friends' social skill story pack 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 Skill 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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