Social stories use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation however social stories can also be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event. This social story is about accepting that everyone makes mistakes at school when they are learning and that that is OK. It also covers some ways to overcome your mistakes. These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt.

Time out cards to use as a behaviour management resource in the classroom. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

A social story to encourage children to tidy up without fuss when their teacher instructs them to do so. The point of a social story is to use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories can be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event but social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation. These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Social stories use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation however social stories can also be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event. This social story is about remembering to put your hand up to speak in class instead of calling out. These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt.

Cut and Stick worksheet in which children should look at the pictures and decide whether they show good or bad behaviour choices. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

This is a self assessment for children about their social skills.  It may help you to see where they think they are at in terms of their own social skills.  Good to do before and after work on social skills or friendships. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Simple activity book for them to fill out information all about themselves Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

These behavior prompt fans can be used in class to easily instruct children without words. This can helpful during whole-class teaching when you do not want to interrupt the flow of teaching and can be particularly helpful for visual learners. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Number shown in figures and counting hands and children have to count the pictures and match the correct number of objects.  Perfect for an independent workstation activity. Clipart images courtesy of Arty Clips Graphics

Book for children to fill in all about themselves including pages for photos and achievements.  This is particuarly useful for children with low self esteem or an insecure sense of self.

Alphabet Chart showing the BSL signs for each letter of the alphabet. Clipart images courtesy of Little Tots Learning

Fans for children to show you visually whether or not they are understanding their work

Scale for children to visually express how angry they are feeling.

Display cards for parents to use at home to support children in becoming more independent when leaving the house. These cards can be set up by a parent before hand or along side the child with all the things that they need to remember that day and it can be put up near the door so that as they leave the house they can check their checklist for that day and see if they have everything they need. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Worksheet in which children can look at and identify numbers 1-10 and then find the same number to match to it.

Thermometer showing increasing levels of anger and then with a space to think about what things make them feel that angry and how they can calm themselves down at different levels of anger. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

If children learn to understand and recognise emotions both in themselves and others, learning to to identify and label them then this can ensure they will be better equipped to manage and regulate themselves when they experience strong emotions. If children are able to notice how they are feeling and then use strategies to calm themselves down then they are more likely to have successful friendships and to be able to manage set backs. This worksheet shows 6 blank faces with an emotion word written underneath and children are required to draw into the face what they think that emotion face looks like… Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt.

Worksheet in which children should think about their own emotions, times that they have felt certain emotions and the thoughts they had at that time. Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

Worksheet in which children should think about things that have made them angry in the past and what they could have done to avoid getting angry… Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art

A referral form for teachers to flag up children they have concerns about to the inclusion or senior leadership teams.