Key Education Social Skills Activities for Kids, Mini Reproducible Books Covering Communication, Calming Strategies,Manners, Emotions, and More Social Emotional Learning Activities

Good for kids - son enjoys reading by himself

I really like the stories in this book and has worked well for my students. Definitely for more of a younger age group or less mature audience. My older kids liked coloring it but the stories were a little too basic for them. I teach K-4 resource (sped).

Order this! Like now! My son has autism and dealing with feelings is so hard. His teacher and I work together to come up with appropriate social stories that we both use, and this book has some good ones. I tweak some of them to better fit our situation and some I don’t have to but this is my BEST resource for that. It’s even better for parents just starting out.

There are some things I really like about this, and some things that I think could use a little tweaking to make them more effective. I purchased this because my sweet son has Autism, among other things. Now, I have tried making him social stories in the past where I actually drew him in as the main character, and it didn't go so well. But I'm pretty sure I have "keep on trying" hardwired into my DNA, and because I don't have time to draw a massive library of these things, this seemed like it would be worth trying. I like that these can be colored, so you can personalize when need be, or so that the kiddo can color the pages themselves. Mine hates coloring, so I don't see that as a feature we'll be using yet, but I think it's super awesome and might give the right child a sense of buy-in. I also like that you can photo copy the pages, because I've got to tell you, I'm going to need these on cardstock, and I'm probably going to have to reprint some of them more then once after our little guy has used them for supplemental fiber in his diet. Not something I encourage, but let's just say I'm pretty sure he thinks books are an unofficial food group. I like that this covers a lot of topics. However, I did feel like some of the topics it specifically addressed for school settings are ones that would have been great to have a social story in other settings, like the home or public outings, or at the very least to have pages that addressed those settings within the story. For example, following directions and hitting and pushing. Not that our guy usually hits, he doesn't, but he does occasionally push, and let me tell you, there's a reason I run around singing "muscle, muscle man" to him (set to the tune of a village people song of a similar wording). He's strong enough to take a grown up down if he gets mad enough. He usually doesn't, but again. I like all the help and support I can get for things that can go wrong. And directions need to be followed wherever we go, and that's definitely something he does not like to do. I also felt like sometimes the "why" was missing on some of these, or not explained in a way that an Autistic kiddo would care about or relate to. For example, on the story for saying hi, it's just said over and over again that it's good manners. Manners is a more abstract concept that covers a wide variety of behaviors and motivators. One of the Behavioral Specialists involved in my son's case found a song on-line, "People Like it When I say Hi", that I think covers the reason more simply and in a way that is easier to understand, and one of his therapists found a version of it by Light House Studio that has a well done video pairing. And I think having an explanation of "it makes people happy" or "they like it", etc. would have made this more effective. Another example is some of the emotions ones. It gives specific examples of things that make a person happy, but those items might not make everybody happy, which could cause confusion for your kiddo. Ice cream is not universally beloved and happy-inducing, for example, and I think they would have been better off saying when you are happy you feel good about things. Like when my son pushes his word sequence on his speech device sometimes for "I feel happy" when he's done with a therapy session and it's time for the person to leave. Yep, totally he's done that. Otherwise, I think this has a lot of workable features and stories, and I think overall it's usefulness outweighs the problems.

I am so happy with this book. Mainly focuses on school, but the stories are done very nicely. Love that you can make little booklets and have the children color and also mark off on a little grid every time they read it, or someone reads it to them. I hope these authors are working on a home version or maybe it’s already out there. I’m very appreciative of the well thought out, easy-going, simple stories to help young learners.

This is exactly what I was looking for to use with my ASD child. He really conitnues to struggle with social skills and these mini books have been very useful. The books have illustrations and examples provided that have helped him understand how to improve his social skills in different areas such as conversation, making friends, staying on topic, manners, and eye contact (just to name a few). At the end of each section there is a an award/completion certificate that they receive. I highly recommend this for all children who are struggling with social skills.

Worked very well for the my needs

This book is great! I’ve been looking for social stories for a four-year-old and these are perfect, but I can see them being appropriate up through first or second grade. There are social stories that fall into the areas of communication, cooperative play, keeping calm, manners, the day at school, and school routines.