Interrupting People Social Story – Conversation Skills
- Grades
- Not Grade Specific
- Pages
- 7
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Special Resources, Social Skills, Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
- Topic
- Interrupting, Conversation Skills
- Preparation
- Print ready
Product description
From the author
This illustrated social story describes feeling excited to speak, noticing when someone is already talking and waiting for a turn. Use the five story pages for a short discussion and supported practice in everyday conversations.
The seven-page PDF includes a cover and credits. Pages can be placed in a display book or laminated and bound for repeated reading. Illustrations are credited to Kari Bolt.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Students recognize the urge to interrupt as a normal feeling ('sometimes I get excited... I feel like I can't wait to say it') rather than something to feel ashamed of.
Students learn the concrete rule to wait when someone else is already speaking.
Students connect waiting politely to a positive social outcome (people being happy to speak with them).
Teaching tips
Read the story repeatedly rather than once, since its short, repeated-phrase structure (the waiting rule appears with similar wording on two consecutive pages) is built for reinforcement over time.
Pair the story with a real practice moment right after reading, such as a group conversation, so the student can immediately apply the 'wait for my turn' rule while it's fresh.
Explain an exception for urgent help: a child may interrupt to report immediate danger or an urgent need. Practice ordinary turn-taking without promising that another person will always respond happily.
Skills covered
Turn-taking in conversation — the story's core rule is waiting until the other person finishes speaking before talking.
Impulse recognition — the story names the internal feeling of wanting to interrupt before addressing the fix, helping a student recognize the urge itself.
Cause-and-effect social reasoning — the story links the behavior (waiting) directly to a social outcome (others being happy to talk with them).
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Questions teachers ask about this resource
Does the story explain why waiting matters, not just tell the student to do it?
Yes. It names the urge to interrupt as a normal feeling, states the rule to wait, and then shows the positive result: 'if I wait politely and do not interrupt, then people will be happy to speak to me.'
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
Turn-taking
Impulse control
Conversation skills
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