Biting Social Story For Toddlers

Name: Biting Social Story For Toddlers
SKU: biting-social-story
Price: 14.99 GBP
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Three named alternatives — a chew toy, a quiet space, or deep breaths — follow a first-person story that names anger and frustration before drawing a firm line against biting.

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File type: PDF
Preparation: Print ready

Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject: Social Skills, Special Resources
Topic: Social Story, Behaviour
Preparation: Print ready

From the author

About this resource

This illustrated social story supports conversations with children who bite others. It names anger and frustration, explains that biting can hurt, and suggests alternatives to practise with an adult.

Read and revisit the story as appropriate to the child’s support plan. The twelve-page PDF contains a cover, ten story pages and credits. It can be placed in a display book or laminated and bound. Clipart images are courtesy of Kari Bolt.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students will identify feelings, such as anger and frustration, that can trigger the urge to bite.
Students will state that biting is never acceptable, even when feeling angry or frustrated.
Students will name at least one of three alternatives to biting: a chew toy, a quiet space, or deep breaths.

Teaching tips

Read the story before a likely triggering moment, such as a conflict over toys, so the three alternatives are already familiar.
Keep a chew toy accessible if using this story's specific suggestion, since it is named directly as one alternative.
Repeat the refrain "so I should never bite" together after each consequence page to reinforce the message.

Skills covered

Emotional identification — naming anger and frustration as feelings that can trigger biting.
Consequence recognition — connecting biting to three specific outcomes: physical hurt, sadness, and lost friendship.
Alternative-behaviour selection — choosing among three named alternatives (chew toy, quiet space, deep breaths) instead of biting.