Social Skills

Teaching social skills is essential for successful social behavior as well as self regulation and appropriate interaction with peers.

Do 2 Learn is a website with a mix of games and activities to support special education programs.

Cartoon strip social interactions are cartoon strips that visually support students as they learn to interact in socially appropriate ways.

A classroom baseball game that helps students practice social interactions with peers.

A Lesson on How to Play Baseball as part of a social skills unit to support appropriate social interactions.

This lesson plan launches a unit on friendship with reading from Friendship According to Humphrey.

This Social Skills Lesson Plan encourages children to plan and collaborate in a highly desirable activity.

Social skills are important skills that many children with disabilities lack, especially children on the Autism Spectrum. This Unit is designed for a small class of children on the Autistic Spectrum, but could be modified to use with an inclusion class that includes both neurotypical and children with disabilities. Designed specifically to end on Valentines Day, I offer 10 lessons that cou…

How to teach social skills. Social skill lessons.

Behavior Self Monitoring Checklists, Behavior Worksheets

Teaching emotional literacy helps students understand both their feelings and the feelings of others and will help them develop healthy relationships.

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A great selection of character education lessons from the I Love Teaching site. A worthwhile visit.

This step by step demonstrates how to put together your own social narrative books to reinforce social and life skills learned by special education students, especially children on the autism spectrum.

Social narratives are powerful ways to reinforce social or life skills in a way that helps students "rewrite" their self talk.

Teaching the social skills, social skills lesson ideas.

Social skills deficits are typical of students with a range of disabilities, especially those on the Autistic Spectrum. I review resources here with recommendations for teachers.

Teaching social skills is just good teaching, every classroom needs it and it's just good inclusional practice.

A lesson plan for viewing the movie How to Eat Fried Worms as part of a social skills unit on

This lesson plan gets children with social skills deficits, especially those on the autistic spectrum, to initiate interaction with other children, especially typically developing peers.

This is a brief lesson for the social skills unit on friends, involving labeling hands, head and feet with things a friend will do.

Social Skills for special education students are much more than good manners. Typically developing children are wired to attend to social nuance, social situations, facial expressions, and the interior life of others, also known as “theory of mind.” Learning disabled children all too often zoom past the more subtle cues they get in social...

Super Skills is a program built for after school or in sessions with a therapist, but provides usable plans for a classroom teacher.

A review of Mi-Stories, a video social skills series for adolescents and young adults from Ken-Crest Services, a social services agency serving children and adults with disabilities.

Social narrative books you write with your students help teach emotional literacy.

Teaching Interactions is a naturalistic approach to teaching social skills to meet individual students' behavioral challenges.

A lesson plan to explore what it means to be a fan.

A lesson plan to practice initiation, discuss friendship and the personal qualities of character that we can emulate.