Name: Teasing Social Story
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Price: 39.99 USD
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About this resource

What's inside this resource

Teasing Social Story: An Efficient Teaching Resource

The Teasing Social Story is a highly effective educational tool that guides children through complex social situations. It adopts a gentle and reassuring methodology, proving significantly beneficial for autistic children who might have difficulties interpreting social prompts. However, this resource offers immense potential for any student struggling with specific social situations or concepts.

About the Book

This unique edition in the series of social stories focuses on teasing. Comprehensively explaining why teasing is hurtful behaviour, it endows students with a profound understanding of empathy, respect, and positive communication tactics.

Structure and Format

The resource comes in an easily accessible 12-page PDF format—ready to be used immediately without modification in different scenarios such as classroom discussions, small-group activities or even as homework assignments. The innovative structuring promotes repeated usage by allowing teachers to either place these pages into display books or laminate and bind each page individually.

Vibrant Illustrations: Each lesson is infused with striking illustrations provided by Kari Bolt— not only making each lesson engaging but also promoting visual comprehension amongst students.
Simplicity: Perfect for special education contexts due to its easy language structure and focused content delivery style.
Broad Application: Equally adaptable within general classrooms aiming towards nurturing socially adept individuals alongside academic proficiency.

In Conclusion...

In summary - The Teasing Social Story allows educators flexibility when tackling crucial targets of social skill development without sacrificing engagement levels or comprehension capacities amongst students – effectively enriching their learning experiences beyond traditional academic achievements.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Identify examples of teasing behavior, such as name-calling or laughing at someone's mistake
Explain why a comment that feels funny to the speaker can still feel hurtful to the person it's directed at
Apply a five-question self-check (True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind) before speaking

Teaching tips

Read the story aloud one page at a time rather than all at once, since each page introduces a single idea (a definition, an example, a feeling, a strategy) meant to be discussed before moving to the next
Post or hand out the five-question self-check from page 11 separately as an ongoing classroom reference, since it's the story's concrete take-away strategy
Pair this story with a discussion of a recent classroom teasing situation, using the story's own contrast between how teasing feels to the speaker versus the person being teased as a discussion starter

Skills covered

Recognizing teasing behavior — the story names three concrete examples (name-calling, laughing at a mistake, mocking a skill gap) rather than defining teasing abstractly.
Perspective-taking — the story explicitly contrasts how teasing might feel funny to the person doing it with how it feels hurtful to the person being teased.
Self-regulation before speaking — a stop-and-think strategy and a five-question checklist give the student a concrete routine to apply before speaking.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

What five questions does the story's self-check ask?

Before speaking, the story asks the student to check whether what they're about to say is True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, and Kind.

How does the story explain why teasing feels different to each person involved?

It contrasts the teaser's perspective, where teasing 'might seem... funny' and 'make other children laugh,' with the target's perspective, where 'it is not funny... It is hurtful and upsetting for them.'