My Teacher is Pregnant Social Story
- Grades
- Not Grade Specific
- Pages
- 18
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN), Social Skills, Special Resources
- Topic
- Social Story, Substitute Teacher
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About this resource
Social story to explain to children that their teacher is pregnant and what they can expect to change. It covers their teacher being out for appointments and check ups, that their teacher may be more tired that usual and that they will be getting a substitute teacher. For children with special needs, these sort of unexpected changes to their normality and routine can be very unsettling so this social story is designed to help prepare them a little.
The point of a social story is to use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. Social stories can be useful for any child who is struggling to understand a situation or concept or needs help to understand a social skill or social cue, expectations, perspectives, common responses or is troubled about an upcoming event but social stories are particularly useful for children on the autistic spectrum for whom social cues can be challenging and who often suffer anxiety if they do not know what to expect from a situation.
These books should be used over and over to reinforce the point so I would suggest either putting the pages into a display book or laminating and binding them.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Anticipate the changes a teacher's pregnancy brings to the classroom, including appointments, a substitute, and maternity leave.
Name and normalise the feelings the change can raise, such as nervousness about a substitute and sadness that the teacher will be away.
Rehearse helpful self-talk for the transition, like remembering the substitute teacher is there to help.
Teaching tips
Read the story repeatedly in the weeks before the teacher's leave so the sequence of changes becomes familiar rather than sudden.
Pause on the feelings pages - nervous about a substitute, sad the teacher will be away - and let children add their own feelings to the discussion.
Pick the spelling version that matches your classroom (mum or mom) and keep it accessible for re-reads whenever the substitute is in.
Point out the reassurance built into the story: the teacher plans everything for while she is away, so the substitute will know what to do.
Skills covered
Preparing for change - children preview the concrete sequence of events a teacher's pregnancy brings, from appointments to maternity leave.
Emotional literacy - the story names nervousness and sadness as normal reactions and models moving toward feeling happy for the teacher.
Understanding new adults - children rehearse that a substitute teacher, man or woman, is there to help them.
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What changes does the story prepare children for?
It covers the visible pregnancy, the teacher stepping out for doctor appointments, her being more tired than usual, going to the hospital when the baby arrives, staying home afterward, and a substitute teacher - who may be a man or a woman - taking the class.
How do the two included versions differ?
Only in regional spelling: one version reads 'really happy to become a mum' and the other 'really happy to become a mom' - every other page is the same, so you can match the story to your classroom's conventions.
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