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Social Stories - Making and Keeping Friends
F 1 2 3 4 5 6 Pre & Primary Essentials Resources Values & Character Education Mindset & Motivation 36 Pages

Social Stories - Making and Keeping Friends

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.

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Learning goals

  • We are learning to examine a range of health messages and practices in the community and discuss their purposes.
  • We are learning to make connections between our emotions, feelings and how we respond to them as actions or reactions.
  • We are learning that we have some control over our emotional wellbeing, and can use a range of strategies to understand and improve our mood.
  • We are learning to examine health messages and understand how they influence our health decisions and behaviours.
  • We are learning to investigate how emotional responses vary in depth and strength by recognising and comparing different emotional reactions to various situations.
  • We are learning to examine the influence of emotional responses on behaviour and relationships by recognising and reflecting on how our feelings impact our actions and interactions.

Curriculum alignment

PD1-8 old Participates in a range of opportunities that promote physical activity PD2-9 old Demonstrates self- management skills to respond to their own and others’ actions PD2-3 old Explains how empathy, inclusion and respect can positively influence relationships PD2-2 old Explains and uses strategies to develop resilience and to make them feel comfortable and safe PD2-1 old Explores strategies to manage physical, social and emotional change 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 PD1-10 old Describes and practises interpersonal skills to promote inclusion to make themselves and others feel they belong PD1-9 old Demonstrates self- management skills in taking responsibility for their own actions PD1-7 old Explores actions that help make home and school healthy, safe and physically active spaces PD1-6 old Understands contextual factors that influence themselves and others’ health, safety, wellbeing and participation in physical activity PD1-2 old Recognises and describes strategies people can use to feel comfortable, resilient and safe in situations 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
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 VCHPEP077 Examine health messages and how they relate to health decisions and behaviours

Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.

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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