Name: Telling the Truth Social Story
SKU: 6151868bb0ab3b71387dc319
Price: 39.99 USD
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Product description

From the author

This twelve-page illustrated social story includes ten short first-person statements about telling the truth. Read it with a child and use familiar examples to discuss honesty, pretend play and mistakes.

The download contains the story, cover and publisher page. For repeated reading, place printed pages in a display book or laminate and bind them. Clipart is credited to Kari Bolt.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Discuss what it means to tell the truth about an event.
Consider how truthful and untruthful statements can affect others.

Teaching tips

Read the ten statement pages aloud in sequence with a child, since each page builds on the honesty theme established by the one before it.
Because each page carries only one short sentence, pause after each page to ask the child to connect that statement to a situation they've experienced.
Use the repeated sentence stem ("When I tell lies it makes everyone feel...") as a discussion prompt, asking the child to predict the ending before turning the page.

Skills covered

Perspective-taking — the child considers how lying affects other people's feelings, moving from "sad" to "angry" across consecutive pages.
Behavioral self-commitment — the child rehearses a first-person promise to tell the truth, modeled on the story's closing statement.
Concept contrast — adult-guided discussion distinguishes deliberate untruths from pretend play and honest mistakes.

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How can I make the discussion concrete?

Talk through a familiar classroom situation and ask the child to explain what happened. Distinguish an honest mistake or pretend story from deliberately saying something untrue.