Telling the Truth Social Story
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- Not Grade Specific
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- Preparation
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- Subject
- Special Resources, Social Skills
- Topic
- social story, telling the truth
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- Print ready
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What's inside this resource
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 to encourage a child who has been telling lies to tell the truth.
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 what makes a statement a lie, using the story's own definition: "when you say something that did not really happen."
Describe how lying can affect other people's feelings, citing the story's own examples of sadness and anger.
State a personal commitment to telling the truth, using the story's closing line ("I will always try to tell the truth") as a model.
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 — the child distinguishes a lie ("something that did not really happen") from the truth ("things exactly as they happened") using the story's own definitions.
Good to know
Questions teachers ask about this resource
Does the story explain what actually counts as a lie, or just tell the child not to lie?
It defines the term directly — a lie is "when you say something that did not really happen" — before moving into how lying affects other people and what telling the truth looks like instead.
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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Core concepts
honesty
lying versus truth-telling
social-emotional learning
consequences of lying
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