Sharing – Social Story for Young Learners

- Year groups
- Nursery–Reception (Early Years), Years 1–3 (Key Stages 1–2)
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Social Skills, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Special Resources
- Topic
- Social Story, Sharing
- Preparation
- Print ready
From the author
About this resource
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.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Recognise 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 centre-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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Concepts & topics
Core concepts
Social story
Sharing
Turn-taking
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