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Personal Space – Reassuring 6-Page Social Story

Personal Space – Reassuring 6-Page Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story explains why standing too close to others is uncomfortable and models leaving space when talking, standing, or sitting near someone.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Personal Space, Autism, SEN, Social Skills, Space, Story, Social

Pride Month Colouring Pages for Kids LGBTQ Inclusive Activities SEL

Pride Month Colouring Pages for Kids LGBTQ Inclusive Activities SEL
, Not Grade Specific,

Twenty-five black-and-white colouring pages, each carrying a Pride Month-themed quote to colour, give students a name-and-date practice page for classroom or independent use.

Author Teach2Tell

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Tags Cool Coloring Pages, Cute Coloring Pages, Coloring Pages For Teens, Coloring Pages For Kids, LGBTQ+ Activities Kids, Inclusive Classroom, SEL Pride Month, Kindness Coloring Sheets, Printable Pride Posters

Respectful Behaviours Cut-And-Paste Worksheets for Respect Lessons

Respectful Behaviours Cut-And-Paste Worksheets for Respect Lessons
, Not Grade Specific,

Three sorting worksheets ask students to cut out everyday classroom behaviours and paste each one under Respectful or Disrespectful.

Author The Feelings and Friends Teacher

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Tags Respectful Behavior, Social Emotional Learning, Cut-and-paste Activities, Classroom Resource, Character Education

Responsibility Character Reading Comprehension Worksheet

Responsibility Character Reading Comprehension Worksheet
, Not Grade Specific,

The reading develops responsibility through several everyday examples rather than a single rule. Learners answer a mix of closed questions about the passage and an open prompt asking how they can demonstrate the trait in their own lives. This design checks understanding while transferring the idea to personal decision-making. A third page provides completed responses for the text-based questions, while the personal reflection appropriately remains open to individual answers.

Author Have Fun Teaching

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Tags Reading Comprehension, Responsibility Worksheet For Kindergarten, Responsibility Worksheets

Routines & Procedures Bingo, Back to school Classroom rules Game

Routines & Procedures Bingo, Back to school Classroom rules Game
, Not Grade Specific,

Forty bingo boards pair with matching calling cards to turn classroom routines and procedures into a group game for the start of the year.

Author Perfect_Printables

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Tags Routines And Procedures Bingo, Classroom Rules Game, Back To School Bingo, Classroom Expectations Game, Classroom Procedures Activity, First Day Of School Game, School Routine Bingo, Classroom Management Printable, Classroom Rules Activity, Behavior Expectations Game

Rules Consequences Worksheet

Rules Consequences Worksheet
, Not Grade Specific,

Three purposes for rules open the page: treating people fairly, caring for the environment, and caring for ourselves. Four picture sections then provide separate spaces for naming the rule being broken and describing a consequence that might follow. The open-response structure permits discussion of more than punishment, including natural, logical, and restorative outcomes. Because the images carry the specific situations, no unsupported scenario details are added to the copy.

Author Have Fun Teaching

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Tags Have Fun Teaching, Choices And Consequences Worksheets Pdf

Scratching Social Story

Scratching Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

Told in a child's own first-person voice, this social story names anger and frustration as the feelings behind scratching, explains why scratching hurts others, and offers three calming strategies instead.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Teaching Resource, Social Story, Autism Spectrum, Behavior Management

Screaming Social Story
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Screaming Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story about the urge to scream when feelings run high, moving from why screaming does not help to four things to do instead, one short sentence to a page.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Screaming, Autism, SEN, Screaming And Autism

Sea Animal Q-Tip Art Packet

Sea Animal Q-Tip Art Packet
, Not Grade Specific,

Eleven sea-animal Q-tip painting templates - jellyfish, narwhal, puffer fish, walrus, fish, whale, dolphin, shark, seahorse, crab, and seaweed - give young learners dot-by-dot decorating practice.

Author mnorganizingmom

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Tags Sea Animals, Q-tip Art, Fine Motor Skills, Visual Perceptual Skills, Crafts

SEL Colouring Pages with Positive Affirmations

SEL Colouring Pages with Positive Affirmations
, Not Grade Specific,

Five colouring pages, each headed by a blank name line, make up this positive-affirmations colouring set.

Author Jennifer Moyer Taylor

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Tags SEL Coloring Pages, Sel, Social Emotional Learning, School Counseling, Affirmations, Mindfulness Coloring, Social Skills, Coloring, Coloring Pages

SEL Worksheets-Feelings SEL Word Search and SEL Crossword Puzzles

SEL Worksheets-Feelings SEL Word Search and SEL Crossword Puzzles
, Not Grade Specific,

Feelings vocabulary appears first in a letter-grid search and then in a crossword asking learners to identify emotions. The paired formats require different retrieval processes: visual scanning for written terms and clue-based naming for crossword entries. Both pages stay within the same social-emotional topic, allowing repeated exposure without duplicating the task structure. The compact pair can be completed as a focused vocabulary review.

Author Jennifer Moyer Taylor

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Tags Sel Worksheets, Sel, Social Emotional Learning, School Counseling, Feelings, Emotions, Counseling, Empathy, SEL Word Search, SEL Crossword Puzzle

Self-Referral Forms For School Social Workers And School Counselors
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Self-Referral Forms For School Social Workers And School Counselors
, Not Grade Specific,

Four self-referral chat slips and twelve hall passes let students request time with a school counselor or social worker without needing to explain the reason out loud. Two slip designs, Counselor Chat and Speak With the Social Worker, ask a student to write their name, date, and teacher, check one topic among family, friends, school, other kids, their own actions, or feelings, and rate the size of their problem. A page of six hall passes reads I Need To See The Social Worker, and a matching page reads I Need To See The Counselor, so the wording can match whichever staff member a student is sent to see.

Author The Feelings and Friends Teacher

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Tags Referral Forms, School Counselors, School Counseling Forms, Referrals

SH Phonic Worksheets for Early Years/Intervention/dyslexia

SH Phonic Worksheets for Early Years/Intervention/dyslexia
, Not Grade Specific,

The SH consonant digraph is practiced at the beginning, end, and mixed positions of words across a phonics packet.

Author Lilibette's Resources

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Tags Special Needs Phonics, Dyslexia Phonic Worksheets, Phonic Worksheets For Dyslexics, Reading Intervention, Sh Worksheets, Sh Digraph, Phonics, Dyslexia

Sharing – Social Story for Young Learners

Sharing – Social Story for Young Learners
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story walks a young learner through recognizing the urge to snatch a toy, asking politely for a turn instead, and how sharing makes both children feel happy.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Sharing, Social Skills, SEN, Social Story For Sharing, Sharing Story For Preschoolers

Shaving My Face Social Story

Shaving My Face Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story walks a young man through growing facial hair and learning to shave, covering razor and shaving-cream safety, electric-shaver use, and asking a trusted adult for help.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Shaving, Puberty, SEN

SEL Empathy Activities – 12-Page Unit

SEL Empathy Activities – 12-Page Unit
, Not Grade Specific,

A June-themed empathy unit pairs a teacher planning page and caregiver letter with a partner-acting activity, illustrated scenario cards, and repeated student response pages built around the sentence frame 'My friend is ___. I say, ___.'

Author Kindergarten Cafe

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Tags Empathy, Social, Emotional, Learning, Activities, Activities About Empathy, Activities To Practice Empathy, Empathy Activities, Teaching Empathy Activities, Empathy Activities For Elementary Students, Elementary, Kindergarten, Teaching, Social Emotional Learning, Perspective Taking

Soda Pop Head by Julia Cook Extension SEL lesson and worksheet

Soda Pop Head by Julia Cook Extension SEL lesson and worksheet
, Not Grade Specific,

A soda-can demonstration paired with a two-sided worksheet extends Julia Cook's Soda Pop Head into naming personal anger triggers and matching calm-down strategies.

Author Jennifer Moyer Taylor

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Tags Soda Pop Head, Anger Management, Emotion Management, Self-regulation, School Counseling, Sel, Social Emotional Learning, Book Companion, Soda Pop Book, Soda Pop Sign Language, Pop Julia, Soda Heads, Sel Worksheet, Julia Pop

Sometimes I Feel Angry - A Social Story About Anger

Sometimes I Feel Angry - A Social Story About Anger
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story names common triggers and physical signs of anger, acknowledges the feeling as normal, and offers five specific calming strategies a child can try.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Anger, Angry, Emotions, Behavior, Anger Social Story, Social Stories Anger Frustration

Sometimes I Feel Jealous Social Story

Sometimes I Feel Jealous Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

Fifteen short pages name common jealousy triggers and reactions in the first person, then close with four concrete coping strategies like taking deep breaths.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Emotions, Jealousy, Autism And Jealousy In Adults, Story Of Jealousy, Jealous Stories, Jealous Story, Activities To Teach About Jealousy

Sometimes People Cry Social Story

Sometimes People Cry Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story walks a student through why a classmate might cry, how to respond, and how to stay calm if the noise feels uncomfortable.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Coping With Crying, Emotions, Sadness

Stealing Social Story

Stealing Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

First-person narration walks a child through why taking things that aren't theirs is stealing, and models asking to borrow instead.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Stealing, Social Story, SEN, Social Stories About Stealing, Social Story For Stealing, Social Stories Stealing, Social Story Stealing, Stealing Social Story

Stool Withholding Social Story

Stool Withholding Social Story
, Not Grade Specific,

A first-person social story names a child's fear of going to the toilet, reassures them that the fear is normal, and models calming and comfort strategies to help.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Social Story, Autism, Stool Withholding, SEN, Withholding Stool, Stool Withholding Autism, Autistic Child Holding Poop

Stranger Danger – Social Story for Kids

Stranger Danger – Social Story for Kids
, Not Grade Specific,

A short, large-print story defines what a stranger is and walks a child through simple safety rules, with matching US- and UK-spelling versions.

Author SEN Resource Source

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Tags Stranger, SEN, Social Skills, Autism, Social Story, Social Narrative

Stress Management PowerPoint SEL Lesson-NO PREP!

Stress Management PowerPoint SEL Lesson-NO PREP!
, Not Grade Specific,

A twelve-slide stress-management lesson has students identify stress triggers, sort them by controllability, and physically enact carrying and releasing stress with a hands-on book activity.

Author Jennifer Moyer Taylor

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Tags Health, Stress Management, SEL, Social-emotional Learning, School Counseling, Stress Management Powerpoint, Powerpoint, Slides, Self-regulation, Hands-on Activity, Emotional Regulation