Social stories are a helpful way to teach children appropriate behaviors.
Watch the video below for a good description of social stories and provides information on how to write a social story and implement it.
These are some social stories I've created for varies students. It has areas insert pictures of students' friends or family to customized it to fit the needs of of the student.
There are many social stories on the internet too.
This website, the Watson Institute offers great social stories for free! They have social stories about anger, things at home, clothing, friends, grades/tests/homework, health and hygiene, perservative, obsessive, and upsetting behavior, sadness, school routines, school work and class behavior, self control, sensory and other needs, sports/recess/winning, talking, teen issues, and touching things.
If you click the pictures below it will take you to the link where the social story is from.
This is a packet of social stories that the author has up for sale for $4.50
This website has social stories available for download for free. They also have special social stories for holidays.
This is a good social story for fire drills.
These three social story pictures above come from an excellent website that offers many more social stories and visuals. It is even a great resource to help you get ideas to create your own social stories to fit your child's needs.
Getting Dressed Social Story
Washing Hands Social Story
Going to the bathroom social story
Taking a bath social story
This school district has social stories available on their website.
Blunders is a game and not necessarily a social story. However, it provides student with social situations and how they would react. Click the picture to see how a teacher uses it in her classroom.
Another way to help students learn how to do a task is creating a task analysis for the task. When you create a task analysis you break down the overall task into small manageable chunks, or steps. When you create a task analysis you can also collect data of the steps the child completes successfully. Learn more about behavior data collection here.
The attachment below is a task analysis and data collection from for brushing teeth.
Social stories are a helpful way to teach children appropriate behaviors.
Watch the video below for a good description of social stories and provides information on how to write a social story and implement it.
These are some social stories I've created for varies students. It has areas insert pictures of students' friends or family to customized it to fit the needs of of the student.
There are many social stories on the internet too.
This website, the Watson Institute offers great social stories for free! They have social stories about anger, things at home, clothing, friends, grades/tests/homework, health and hygiene, perservative, obsessive, and upsetting behavior, sadness, school routines, school work and class behavior, self control, sensory and other needs, sports/recess/winning, talking, teen issues, and touching things.
If you click the pictures below it will take you to the link where the social story is from.
These three social story pictures above come from an excellent website that offers many more social stories and visuals. It is even a great resource to help you get ideas to create your own social stories to fit your child's needs.
Another way to help students learn how to do a task is creating a task analysis for the task. When you create a task analysis you break down the overall task into small manageable chunks, or steps. When you create a task analysis you can also collect data of the steps the child completes successfully. Learn more about behavior data collection here.
The attachment below is a task analysis and data collection from for brushing teeth.