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I Need to Wear Deodorant Social Story

I Need to Wear Deodorant Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story walks a growing teenager through why their body is changing, why showering and deodorant are now part of the daily routine, and how following that routine will help them feel good, told in matching boy and girl versions.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Deodorant, Hygiene, Puberty, Put On Deodorant Clipart, Can Kids Wear Deodorant, When Should Child Wear Deodorant

Icebreaker Back To School Battle Brackets

Icebreaker Back To School Battle Brackets
, Not Grade Specific,

The printable provides an image and link to an externally hosted bracket icebreaker. Open the link before class to check access and choose how to use the activity.

Author Jennifer Moyer Taylor

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Tags Icebreakers, Back To School, Battle Brackets, Sel, Social Emotional Learning, Community Building, Games, Advisory, Debate, Social Skills

Identifying Top or Bottom Worksheet

Identifying Top or Bottom Worksheet
, Not Grade Specific,

The page introduces a two-choice spatial relation: top versus bottom. In each picture, learners locate a hat relative to another object, determine whether it is above at the top or below at the bottom, and circle the printed word that matches. The repeated symbol keeps the object being tracked consistent while the surrounding pictures change. The repeated comparison keeps attention on positional language rather than counting, naming, or writing about the surrounding objects.

Author Have Fun Teaching

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Tags Have Fun Teaching

Safe & Unsafe Touch Cards – 20 Illustrated Visuals

Safe & Unsafe Touch Cards – 20 Illustrated Visuals
, Not Grade Specific,

Illustrated touch-type cards such as handshake, hug, and tickle are paired with person-type cards such as parent, teacher, and stranger to support personal-boundary discussion.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Inappropriate Touch, Hurtful Touch, Personal Boundaries, Safe And Unsafe Touch, Consent Education, Respectful Relationships, Safety Awareness, Child Safety, Personal Space, Recognizing Boundaries

Inappropriate Touch – Social Story for Kids

Inappropriate Touch – Social Story for Kids
, Not Grade Specific,

Private parts, covered by underwear or a swimsuit, are the boundary this social story teaches children not to touch on other people, one short statement per page.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Autism, SEN, Inappropriate Touch, Personal Space, Recognizing Boundaries X, Respectful Relationships , Personal Boundaries, Inappropriate Touching Autism, Autistic Child Touching Others Inappropriately

How to Read a Prescription Label – Life Skills

How to Read a Prescription Label – Life Skills
, Not Grade Specific,

Reading and interpreting a prescription medication label is the focus of this life-skills activity from the Adulting on the Spectrum series, provided in both colour and black-and-white versions.

Author Adulting Life Skills Resources

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Tags Autism Safety Resources, Personal Safety Passages, Independent Living Skills, IEP Goal-Oriented Skills, Autism Resource For Parent , Life Skills For Autistic Teens And Adults, Adulting On The Spectrum, Social And Emotional Learning, Life Skills For Teens, Life Skills For Adults

Internet Search Scavenger Hunt: Search Engine Game

Internet Search Scavenger Hunt: Search Engine Game
, Not Grade Specific,

A 22-item teacher answer key covers scattered trivia facts — presidents, geography, inventions, sports history — intended for an internet search scavenger hunt, but the student-facing question sheet itself is not present in the file, and several answers contain unedited AI-chatbot phrasing.

Author EduPal Learning

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Tags Internet Search, Scavenger Hunt, Search Engine Game, Games, Activity, Research Skills

Interrupting People Social Story – Conversation Skills

Interrupting People Social Story – Conversation Skills
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story walks a student through the urge to interrupt, the need to wait for a turn to speak, and the reward of people being happy to talk once the wait is over.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Autism, SEN, Social Skills, Interrupting Others, Is Interrupting A Sign Of Autism, Autism Interrupting

It’s OK Not to be First Social Story

It’s OK Not to be First Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story walks a child through everyday classroom moments where someone else is picked first, modelling calm self-talk for waiting a turn.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Its OK Not To Be First, Good Sport, Poor Loser

It’s OK to Make Mistakes Social Story

It’s OK to Make Mistakes Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

Eight illustrated first-person pages walk a child from "I hate getting the answer wrong" to four things to do instead — say "That's OK, I'll just try again", cross the mistake out neatly, erase and retry, or ask the teacher — with an adult guidance page on sharing the story.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Autism, SEN, Making Mistakes, Growth Mindset, Acceptance, Resilience, Coping With Errors, Positive Self-Talk, Self-Reflection, It's Ok To Be Wrong, Mistakes Are Ok

Keeping My Hands to Myself – Social Story

Keeping My Hands to Myself – Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

Illustrated first-person pages make up a social story about keeping hands to self, moving from noticing restless hands to sitting with hands in lap. One sentence per page walks a child from noticing that hands are hard to keep still to holding them in their lap on the carpet.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Autism, Behavior, Social Skills, Hands To Myself, Social Narrative, Social Story Hands In Pants, Social Stories Keeping Hands To Self, How To Teach A Child To Keep Hands To Themselves

Kind Hands Social Story – Gentle Hands Resource

Kind Hands Social Story – Gentle Hands Resource
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story walks a child through the difference between kind and unkind uses of their hands, naming pinching, hitting, hair pulling, and pushing as unkind before closing with a reassuring statement that using kind hands helps everyone feel happy.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Kind Hands, Hurting, Behavior, Gentle Hands Social Story

Kind Words Social Story

Kind Words Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person, illustrated social story walks a child through recognising unkind word choices, understanding how they hurt others, and pausing to ask "is this kind?" before speaking.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Kind Words, Hurtful Words, Behavior, Bullying, Books About Using Kind Words, Using Kind Words Social Story

Kindness Calendar

Kindness Calendar
, Not Grade Specific,

Kindness calendar with a small daily action for each square, such as giving a compliment, writing a nice note, helping with housework or watering the plants, laid out Monday to Sunday on one page.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Kindness, Mental Health

Label a Diagram

Label a Diagram
, Not Grade Specific,

Twenty-four everyday-object diagrams — from a computer and a dog to a bicycle, a ladybug, and a beach scene — each pair a word bank with unlabeled parts for students to fill in, with a matching answer key for every diagram.

Author Soumara Siddiqui

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Tags Vocabulary Enrichment, Label A Diagram, Labeling, Labels, Vocabulary Building

Let's Talk About Health – Class Board Game

Let's Talk About Health – Class Board Game
, Not Grade Specific,

Twenty-six spoken health questions — from "What helps against a sore throat?" to "Do you know any diseases that are very contagious?" — fill the spaces of a Start-to-Finish board students answer as they move along it.

Author Better Teaching Resources

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Tags Board Game, Dice Game, Partner Activities, Health, Nutrition, Writing Prompts, ESL Activities, Small Group, Speaking Skills, Literacy

Let's Talk About Music – ESL Board Game

Let's Talk About Music – ESL Board Game
, Not Grade Specific,

Music talk fuels an ESL conversation board game whose path from Start to Finish is paved with around thirty discussion squares - favourite bands, instruments, concerts, genres, and challenges like humming a song for others to guess.

Author Better Teaching Resources

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Tags Board Game, Speaking Games, Speaking Skills, Writing Prompts, ESL Activity, Partner Activity, Literacy Center, Dice Game, Small Group

Let's Talk About the Weather – ESL Board Game

Let's Talk About the Weather – ESL Board Game
, Not Grade Specific,

Over twenty weather-themed conversation questions line a path from Start to Finish, turning small talk about rain, snow, and storms into a speaking-practice board game for English learners.

Author Better Teaching Resources

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Tags Weather, Board Game, Literacy Center, Game Board, Dice Game, Writing Skills, Writing Prompts, Environment, ESL Activity, Partner Work, Weather Games For Middle School

Letter B Playdough Mats

Letter B Playdough Mats
, Not Grade Specific,

Bird, butterfly, bee, book, bow and banana each get their own letter B mat, every one headed with the same sentence frame so the initial sound repeats six times.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Letter B, Letter B Activities, Letter B Playdough Mats, Playdough Mats, Alphabet Activities, Fine Motor Skills, Fine Motor Activities, Beginning Sounds, Initial /b/ Sounds, Phonics Activities

Letter D Cut and Paste Worksheets

Letter D Cut and Paste Worksheets
, Not Grade Specific,

Three cut-and-paste worksheets build letter-D recognition, moving from initial-sound picture sorting to case recognition to picking D out of similar-looking letters.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Letter Recognition, Phonics Practice, Fine Motor Skills, Cut And Paste Activities

Letter F Cut and Paste Worksheets

Letter F Cut and Paste Worksheets
, Not Grade Specific,

Three cut-and-paste sheets on the letter F: gluing pictures that begin with F inside a football, sorting capital F from lowercase f, and separating F from look-alike letters including E, i and V.

Author The Connett Connection

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Tags Letter F, Letter F Activities, Letter F Worksheets, Alphabet Worksheets, Letter Of The Week, Fine Motor Skills, Scissor Skills, Alphabet Activities, Letter Recognition, Preschool Activities, Letter F Worksheets For Toddlers, Letter Ff Worksheets

Library Skills Worksheet

Library Skills Worksheet
, Not Grade Specific,

The Library Card introduces a practical tool used for borrowing books. A short informational paragraph explains that a card can be obtained from a local library and used to check out books. Students then fill out a practice card for themselves, write the name of their local library, and add a drawing. The activity connects literacy with community resources while giving learners a reason to discuss responsible borrowing, returning materials, and the information commonly recorded on membership forms.

Author Have Fun Teaching

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Tags Have Fun Teaching, Library Activities Worksheets

Personal Boundaries – Social Story for Kids

Personal Boundaries – Social Story for Kids
, Not Grade Specific,

Everyone has private parts, and only parents or doctors may look at them — this social story teaches children not to look at other people's private parts or underwear.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Appropriate Behavior, Examples Of Social Stories For Preschoolers, People's Privates, Peoples Privates

Loud Noises Social Story

Loud Noises Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person picture story about loud noises that names the discomfort they cause and then offers four things to try, ending with a rule about when ear defenders come off.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Noise Sensitivity, Autism, SEN