This school year, I’m lucky enough to have 2 social groups. However, due to the reality of scheduling, not all of my students working on social skills were able to be put in a group strictly working on social skills. I’ve had this difficulty forever and finally came up with a printable to help: Social Skill Focus Sheets! I needed a way to… 1) Remind my students working on social skills what they were working on, 2) And WHY they were working on it and 3) Allow me to target social skills in ANY group with ANY activity!
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I realized that I had been using visuals heavily with all of my language and articulation students, but was slacking a bit on using consistent visuals with my students working on social skills. I needed something grab and go yet effective AND age-appropriate (no baby graphics) as I work primarily with grades 5 and 6.
I made these social skill “focus sheets” for 18 social skills as follows:
- Sharing the conversation
- Staying on topic
- Starting conversations
- Asking great questions
- Making great comments
- Keeping our bodies focused
- Slowing down
- Using positive self-talk
- Giving compliments
- Sharing how we feel
- Tone of voice
- Compromising
- Having “just right” energy
- Personal space
- Taking turns
- Body language
- Being kind
- Solving problems
Each half sheet has a visual and a student friendly explanation including why the skill is important.
I use them in a variety of ways but primarily in mixed groups with a student or two who are working on social skills. I set out one card per session and spend some time explaining the skill, referencing the sheet, and setting a goal with the student about how they will use that skill this session. For example, I might choose the “compromising” card for one session. The student and I might review compromising, read the card, and set a goal for how many times they can compromise this session. The student keeps track of their progress. Some examples of these half sheets are shown below:
Then, at the end of the session, I have them answer some of the reflection questions as shown below. I keep this sheet laminated and in my binder as well.
Last, once and a while, I have them fill out an “exit slip” as shown below.
All of these printables are included in my Social Skill Focus Sheets packet in my Teachers Pay Teachers store.
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These look amazing!!!
The WHY part is so crucial – I love the reflection questions!
I agree! Thank you!
Always looking for new products for social skills as my caseload is expanding in this area. Thanks so much.
These beauties have been on my wishlist! Visuals are so important for my kiddos so I know these would benefit them a ton!
This would be wonderful for one of the 8th graders that I work with. Could be incorporated into each of his sessions.
I love the exit slips for increasing self-awareness! Such an awesome idea.
This would be a handy resource to have in my toolkit as a grad student soon to be graduating. 🙂
I also feel like I’m slacking on the social language visuals. These could help my students focus on which social skill we’re targeting, and I like the opportunity for them to self check at the end if the session.
Love this product! I’ll have to add it to my wishlist. I’m really interested to see how the positive self talk portion works with my students. So many of my high functioning students have negative feelings about themselves and others and it will be great for them to learn and feel more positively about themselves!
Social skills activities are so hard to find- especially for the older guys! This looks great for both individual and group settings! The reflection questions are so important for kids of all ages
Looks great! I like your reflection questions– I have a few social skills students who can do alright with their goal in structured practice, but will argue sometimes about why it doesn’t matter throughout the rest of their day.
The social skills visuals look amazing and would be a great tool to use with my students!!!
Love the visuals, reflection questions, and self-monitoring sheets! This would be really useful to explain the “why” and help with carryover. 🙂
Looks like it would be a great resource!!!
I like the self monitoring sheets to encourage carryover. Thank you!
Providing students with a concrete example of these skills will be so helpful! A lot of my visual learners will be able to grasp the concepts now that they’re in such a friendly, helpful format. Thank you!!
I love th combination of the explanation and a picture visual. It makes these sheets very flexible to use in therapy!
Looks like a handy resource for social skills!
I love this product! A great visual for these kids that need a little extra help. I especially like how you brought in the Wh questions.
As a soon-to-be CF in the public schools, these look like they would be super helpful!
These are definitely something I am looking into purchasing! I only have 1 student with social skill goals but everyone can benefit from these reminders. I love that you included the reflection questions and that they are only a 1/2 page so they can easily be on the table but not distracting. Thank you for creating such awesome products!
these look fab!
This looks like a great way to continue social thinking while working in a mixed group!
These are awesome! I just finished my internship at a school and LOVED it. I can’t wait to start my CF!
Love the visuals! I am a grad student who would love to add this to my materials
I love the visuals! Great idea to use with my own kiddos.
This is so helpful for middle school students with social language goals!
These visuals are great! and would be very helpful in mixed groups.
My junior high kids would really benefit from these visuals that break down the conversational processes into chunks! I really like the reflection questions because they will help them think about situations that they have experienced or might experience in the future. Thanks for the opportunity to win!
This would be a wonderful resource in my clinical fellowship! I am a big fan of your materials!
I love these visuals and reflection questions! Due to curriculum changes I can’t take any of my students with social skills together this would be so helpful with those mixed groups.
I love this!! I am in my clinical fellowship year and always looking for great ideas! Thank you 🙂
This is such a needed resource! This would be great for my social skills groups!!! You have a knack for knowing what we need!
I’m adding these to my wish list!
Working with cognitively Impaired and autistic, visuals are the way to go in teaching any skill. Thanks for making these. It makes so much sense!
Looks like a great idea! Thanks so much for putting all we do for social skills in a great format/organized!
These look so great! Such an organized way to approach the HUGE area that social communication entails!
I really love this idea. Can’t wait to start using it!
I love this! Visuals help so much! 🙂
This looks so awesome! I’m just starting to apply for grad school, but you have some awesome resources. Thanks!
I have several patients with Autism who could benefit from these new social skills visuals. Thanks for making them and the opportunity to win a set! ? ~ Angela
The reflections pages are awesome to tie it all together. Our kids need to understand why they are working on these issues!
These look wonderful!!
Thanks for the giveaway! Fingers crossed…
This is exactly want I need for my third graders. It is appropriate for their age and I love the tasks.
These are so great! I love the exit slips so students can monitor their own behavior. My students seem to struggle most with self-monitoring so this would be really helpful.
This pack looks great! Love the student friendly definitions and easy to understand graphics!
Appropriate groups can be so hard to find, especially when there’s only one or two kids targeting social skills on my caseload. I love that this modifies anything to help the student focus on a specific skill.
Theses visuals seem like a great way to reinforce why my social skills students come to speech and what we are working on. I love how you broke it down so it’s much more manageable per session than a blanket social skills session. As I work with the 3:1 model, I feel this could also help the general ed teachers know what we are focusing on to better support generalization of these skills – plus it could be a small lesson for the whole class!
You win! Email me at speechymusings@gmail.com and I’ll send the product over!
I really like this packet. I like that you made it appropriate for older students too!
This product would be PERFECT for two of my high school student I am seeing during lunch time during a mixed skills group to address generalization of goals.
This is on my wish list for sure!!
I could see this product being so helpful for a bunch of my groups! Even in groups where everyone is working on social skills, a visual cue for a particular student is so much easier and less intrusive than constant verbal reminders.
These are great! Perfect for students with ASD, ADD, EBD or SLD! Love the visual supports as well as the self reflection component. Thanks for creating this!
I cannot wait to use these in my classroom!
Love the visual supports and explanations!
This looks great….all I want for Christmas is this!
This is a great visual! Can’t wait to use it!
These are really nice visual supports. I plan to use them at home with my son!
This would be perfect for my middle school group. Fingers crossed that I win!
These look like great visuals to use and I love the self-reflection portion! I have so many students who need support with carryover and rating themselves will be great for supporting that!
This is awesome! Love how it spells everything out nicely and LOVE the reflection piece!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the visuals!!! And the Exit Slip for Self-Reflection and Assessment!
These social skills visuals are EVERYTHING!!! The reflection piece is an amazing compliment 🙂 I have so many littles that would benefit from this