Sharing – Social Story for Young Learners
- Year groups
- Not Year Specific
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Social Skills, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Special Resources
- Topic
- Social Story, Sharing
- Preparation
- Print ready
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About 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 about the importance of sharing.
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
Recognize the feeling of wanting to use something someone else already has.
Use a polite scripted phrase ('Could I have a turn please?') instead of snatching an item.
Identify how sharing or not sharing affects a friend's feelings.
Teaching tips
Read the story aloud during a calm moment, not immediately after a real sharing conflict, so the scripted language is available before it's needed.
Practice saying the two scripted phrases ('Could I have a turn please?' and 'I will let you have a turn') aloud with students so they are ready to use them in the moment.
Revisit the story briefly right before a center-time or free-play period where sharing conflicts are likely to come up.
Skills covered
Social scripting — students learn and rehearse a polite request phrase to use instead of snatching an item.
Perspective-taking — students consider how snatching versus sharing makes a friend feel.
Turn-taking — students practice the reciprocal steps of both asking for and offering a turn.
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Sharing
Turn-taking
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