Social Stories - Making and Keeping Friends

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Description

The Social Stories – Making and Keeping Friends resource is a visual, story-based learning tool designed to help students understand, develop, and maintain friendships. This resource explains key friendship skills such as greeting others, spending time together, taking turns, resolving conflicts, and showing kindness. Through simple, relatable language and engaging illustrations, students learn positive social behaviours in a supportive way.

This resource includes:
•    A4 Colour Social Story – Full-page, visually engaging friendship strategies and scenarios.
•    A4 Black & White Social Story – Printable version for colouring and interactive engagement.
•    A5 Colour Social Story – Compact, student-friendly size for personal reference.
•    A5 Black & White Social Story – Ideal for individual work and take-home activities.

•    Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Lessons: Teach students about positive friendship behaviours.
•    Guided Reading Discussions: Encourage students to reflect on and role-play friendship scenarios.
•    Take-Home Resource: Support parent discussions on social skills at home.

Suitable for

Fast Finishers
Relief Teachers
Parents

Lesson Structure

Individual Activity
Rotations / Group Work
Class Activity

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Curriculum Codes

AC9HP2P06 9

Investigate a range of health messages and practices in their community and discuss their purposes

AC9HP4P06 9

Explain how and why emotional responses can vary and practise strategies to manage their emotions

AC9HP6P06 9

Apply strategies to manage emotions and analyse how emotional responses influence interactions

ACPPS021 8.4

Examine health messages and how they relate to health decisions and behaviours

ACPPS038 8.4

Investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength

ACPPS056 8.4

Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships

VCHPEP077

Examine health messages and how they relate to health decisions and behaviours

VCHPEP093

Investigate how emotional responses vary in family situations and in friendship groups

VCHPEP110

Examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour, relationships and health and wellbeing

PD1-2 old

Recognises and describes strategies people can use to feel comfortable, resilient and safe in situations

PD1-6 old

Understands contextual factors that influence themselves and others’ health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity

PD1-7 old

Explores actions that help make home and school healthy, safe and physically active spaces

PD1-8 old

Participates in a range of opportunities that promote physical activity

PD1-9 old

Demonstrates self- management skills in taking responsibility for their own actions

PD1-10 old

Describes and practises interpersonal skills to promote inclusion to make themselves and others feel they belong

PD2-1 old

Explores strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change

PD2-2 old

Explains and uses strategies to develop resilience and to make them feel comfortable and safe

PD2-3 old

Explains how empathy, inclusion and respect can positively influence relationships

PD2-9 old

Demonstrates self- management skills to respond to their own and others’ actions

PD2-10 old

Demonstrates a range of interpersonal skills that build and enhance relationships and promote inclusion in various situations

PD3-1 old

Identifies and applies strengths and strategies to manage life changes and transitions

PD3-2 old

Investigates information, community resources and strategies to demonstrate resilience and seek help for themselves and others

PD3-3 old

Evaluates the impact of empathy, inclusion and respect on themselves and others

PD3-9 old

Applies and adapts self- management skills to respond to personal and group situations

PD3-10 old

Selects and uses interpersonal skills to interact respectfully with others to promote inclusion and build connections

Differentiation

Modifications

• Provide sentence starters for students who need additional writing support.
• Allow students to illustrate their own friendship interactions based on the social stories.

EXTENSIONS

• Have students write their own social stories about making or maintaining a friendship.
• Encourage students to act out different friendship scenarios in small groups.

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