This resource list provides practical guidance on creating and using social stories. It offers examples and customizable social story templates. These resources can be used by educators and families to help young children prepare for new experiences, teach new skills, follow steps in a routine, understand expectations, and navigate everyday situations.
Tip Sheet
This family-friendly tip sheet explains how social stories can help young children learn new skills, understand expectations, and reduce challenging behavior. It is designed to support partnerships between educators and families, with strategies that can be introduced in the classroom and shared with caregivers for use at home.
This list includes scripted stories in different languages. Scripted stories are brief descriptive stories that provide information regarding social situations like riding a bus and problem solving.
This Head Start resource offers guidance for personalizing social stories with simple language, photos, and familiar information. It includes examples for everyday situations. The article suggests reading stories ahead of time, discussing them, practicing through play or role-play, and watching how the child responds.
The page serves as a collection of social story resources that can be used to help children prepare for everyday situations, routines, and expectations such as using gentle hands, riding the city bus, and keeping healthy habits. Several of the stories are available in English and Spanish.
This website has customizable stories designed to help children with disabilities learn social skills, understand rules, and practice appropriate behaviors. The stories cover topics such as health and hygiene, school behaviors and routines, self-control, communication, friendships, managing anger, and personal boundaries and touch. Many stories can be adapted to fit an individual child’s needs and include spaces for adding approved photographs or clip art, making them more relevant and familiar to the child.
The page gives guidance on personalizing and using social stories. It also provides free story templates that parents, caregivers, and educators can customize with their own photos and information. The stories use simple language and visuals to help children learn what to expect and do in familiar or new situations such as going to a store, taking turns, having a play date, learning to use the toilet, and responding to a tragic event.
