Kind Hands Social Story – Gentle Hands Resource
- Grades
- Not Grade Specific
- Pages
- 15
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Special Education Needs (SEN), Social Skills
- Topic
- Kind hands, Safe behavior
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
Product description
From the author
Social stories use a patient and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way that can be easily understood. 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 however social stories can also 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.
This social story is for children who have been hurting others. It explains ways that our hands can be kind and do good things and ways that our hands can be unkind and hurt others. It explains the consequences of using unkind hands and encourages children to not hurt others.
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.
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Identify specific hand behaviors as kind (waving, high fives, playing) or unkind (pinching, hitting, hair pulling, pushing)
Understand how unkind hand behaviors affect other people's feelings and willingness to keep playing
Practice using kind hands consistently as a way to keep friendships positive
Teaching tips
Read during a calm moment.
Model a helpful action and ask the child to choose one to practice.
Discuss respecting another person’s preference about touch.
Skills covered
Behavior identification — students learn to name specific hand behaviors as kind or unkind using the story's own simple vocabulary.
Cause-and-effect understanding — the story walks through how unkind hands lead to others feeling hurt, sad, or angry, and not wanting to play.
Self-regulation language — the story gives a child simple, repeatable words ('kind hands') to describe the behavior expected of them.
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Resource details
Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
Kind vs. unkind hand behaviors
Cause and effect of actions on others
Self-regulation
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