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Eating Too Fast – Social Story for Kids

Written in the first person as "Taking My Time to Eat," this social story explains in simple, one-sentence-per-page language why eating quickly can be uncomfortable — an upset stomach, a burning chest feeling, choking, or eating past fullness — before showing the benefit of eating more slowly (tasting food better, feeling more comfortable). It then offers four concrete strategies: taking small bites, putting the fork down between bites, drinking water between mouthfuls, and counting chews. The story closes by reinforcing how slowing down helps the child feel good, stay healthy, and please the people around them.
Grades
Not Grade Specific
Pages
19
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated Jan 13, 2024

Subject
Special Education Needs (SEN), Special Resources
Topic
Eating Habits, Social Story
Preparation
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The Eating Too Fast Social Story

The Eating Too Fast Social Story functions as a key educational resource, tailored to enlighten children on the significance of consuming their food slowly and deliberately. This tool offers practical guidelines portraying why consuming food rapidly could adversely impact a child's health, in addition to providing useful tips on their eating habit regulation.

Conforming to social story objectives, this resource employs an empathetic and reassuring tone, allowing children to easily understand complex information regarding social situations. These structured narratives are mainly pictorial for youngsters who might face challenges understanding certain concepts or those who need help wading through varied societal expectations or responses.

Benefits & Users of The Eating Too Fast Social Story

  • A stand-out advantage lies within its applicability for children regardless of their grade level.
  • This tool is notably helpful for students with Special Education Needs (SEN) such as those within the autistic spectrum.
  • Suggested continual use reinforces teachings over time as it can be placed in a display book or laminated before binding for durability maximizes usage.

This invaluable teaching aid comes readily accessible across multiple platforms in the form of a PDF file making it ideal for educators either publicly or home-school setup.

Distribution & Contribution towards learning

The inclusion of illustrated clipart images aids effective learning making it visually gripping thereby boosting overall comprehension and retention levels.

  • No infringement upon copyright laws due to unrestricted photocopy rights extends its reach among students indicating how educating our future generation has no bounds!

In Conclusion:

To sum up; may it be group discussions, small group settings, or assigned as homework tasks—the flexibility that this inclusive activity offers indeed makes it a must-have tool for every dedicated educator. Thus, the Eating Too Fast Social Story proves itself to be a comprehensive yet straightforward educational tool to teach healthy eating habits in an accessible and understandable way.

In the classroom

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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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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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Eating pace

  • Self-regulation

  • Healthy eating habits

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