Eating Too Fast – Social Story for Kids
- Pages
- 19
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN), Special Resources
- Topic
- Eating Habits, Social Story
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
Eating Too Fast Social Story uses illustrated first-person sentences to discuss eating pace and introduce possible routine prompts. Review it with the caregiver and adapt the discussion to the child’s eating support plan.
The twenty-page PDF includes eighteen story pages, a cover and credits. Pages can be placed in a display book or laminated and bound for repeated reading. Illustrations are credited to Kari Bolt. Follow the included use terms.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Understand why eating too quickly can cause physical discomfort
Apply concrete strategies to slow down the pace of eating
Teaching tips
Read one page at a time and pause to connect each discomfort described (stomach ache, burning chest feeling, choking) to the child's own past experience before moving to the strategies section starting on page 12.
Skills covered
Self-regulation around eating pace
Understanding cause and effect for a health-related behaviour
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Is this a story or a worksheet?
It is a first-person social story (no questions or activities) that walks through why eating too fast can be uncomfortable and teaches four slow-eating strategies.
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Core concepts
Eating pace
Self-regulation
Healthy eating habits
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