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Anger Triggers Social Story For Identifying Triggers and Coping Skills

An anger-focused social story comes as half-size and full-size print versions plus a digital format, paired with coping-skill cards, a choice board, and sequencing cards in both color and black-and-white.
Grades
Preschool–3, Elementary
Pages
61
File type
Multiple File Types

Updated Jan 21, 2025

Subject
Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Special Resources, Special Education Needs (SEN), Life Skills
Topic
anger management, identifying triggers
Resource types
Worksheets & Printables, Presentations, Teacher Tools

About this resource

What's inside this resource

Sometimes, helping students identify what makes them angry feels like a game where you are designed to fail. If you are looking for resources designed for identifying triggers while promoting emotional regulation, then this social story is for you! 

This anger social story helps to identify triggers by providing a variety of examples of different things that may cause a student to be angry. It also helps guides students how how to calm down by providing examples of coping skills that they can use when they are feeling angry. 

This emotions social story is perfect for early elementary students who struggle with anger management and identifying different things that make them angry. With several different formats and tools, you can utilize this social story in any setting and use the tools to help reinforce skills taught!

What's Included?

❤️ Half-Size Social Story

❤️ Full Size Social Story

❤️ Social Story Comic Strip

❤️ Card Format of the Social Story

❤️ Coping Skills Choice Board 

❤️ Coping Skill Visual Cards

❤️ Digital Version of the Social Story Using Google Slides

❤️ Black and White Versions of the story for ink-friendly printing

Some Ideas for Use Are:

⭐ Anger Management Lessons

⭐ Identifying Anger Triggers

⭐ Social Emotional Morning Meetings

⭐ Introducing Calming Strategies for Anger

⭐ Individual Lessons

⭐ Small Group Lessons

⭐ Push In Lessons

⭐ Students on the Autism Spectrum

⭐ Special Education Students

⭐ General Education Students


In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify personal anger triggers with the help of the social story's guided narrative.

  • Select and practice a coping strategy using the coping-skill cards and choice board.

  • Sequence key parts of the anger story using the social-story cards or story strip.

Teaching tips

  • Choose the half-size or full-size print version of the story based on whether it will be used for individual reading or a shared/group read-aloud.

  • Print the black-and-white versions of the story, coping-skill cards, and choice board when color printing isn't available or practical.

  • Pair the choice board with the coping-skill cards so students have both a menu of strategies and physical cards to select from during a real anger episode.

Skills covered

  • Trigger identification -- the social story is built to help students recognize situations or events that make them feel angry.

  • Coping-strategy selection -- students use the choice board and coping-skill cards to choose and apply a calming strategy.

  • Sequencing -- the social-story cards and story strip let students order the events or steps of the story.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

Does the resource include a digital version for use on a screen, or only print formats?

Both -- the set includes a digital, presentation-ready version of the social story alongside half-size and full-size print versions, plus black-and-white options for every printable component.

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