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How to Make Friends Social Skill Practice and Sorting Activity

How to Make Friends Social Skill Practice and Sorting Activity

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Social skills allow us to communicate and problem solve. For students with special needs and more specifically, our friends with Autism, we need to teach them these skills.

This 12-page How to Make Friends booklet teaches students actions that good friends do and actions that good friends do not do. At the end of the story, students take the Best Friend Pledge.

How do I use this in my classroom?
After reading the story, use the blank sorting mat and sorting mat cards to reinforce what your students have learned. You can use this in two ways:
1. Give each student a blank mat and set of sorting cards. One by one, sort the cards and glue them to the sorting mat. This works great during whole group instruction (as shown in preview).
2. Print the sorting mat and cards on cardstock and laminate. Use Velcro and create an interactive page for students to use and reuse. This works great for individual instruction or a quick social skills reminder lesson.


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Rose R.

This resource is a practical and engaging tool for teaching friendship skills and positive social interactions. The activities help students learn important concepts such as starting conversations, showing kindness, taking turns, and identifying appropriate ways to make and maintain friendships.

A key strength of the resource is its use of sorting activities, which make abstract social concepts easier to understand. The visual and interactive format encourages discussion, reflection, and skill development in a structured and supportive way.

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Courtney Sutphin

Loved this product! Loved using this with my students!

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Carmen DePompeis

The product was very helpful in creating activities for my Friends Unit.

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Jessica B.

This is a great addition to my new classroom!!

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Susan G.

Great activity for working with students on building positive friendships

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Tricia S.

This is a great resource. It is very user friendly!

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Linda C.

A great resource. Easy to use. Appropriate for my students. Loved using this resource. Thank you.

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Shara Y.

Simple resource for teaching clients ways to make friends

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Peace Love and Special Ed

Good way to teach social emotional learning skills in class.

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Samantha B.

I used this to help me plan a lesson for ASD students

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SPEC- tacular Specialist

Making friends can be hard. Using this awesome social story is not. Thank you for a great sel resource.

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Shelly L.

This was a great resource for my students! Thank you!

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Amanda M.

This was a cute resource to use with my 1st and 2nd graders. It was also beneficial to use with their peers in modeling social skills.

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Dailyn H.

I've used this in the past to talk about how we treat our friends in class and around school. When I've needed to I've gone back to reference it over the school year and it was helpful to look at or complete it again. A good resource for any time in the year.

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Erin A.

Great story and the students are about engaged and easy to understand

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Kateri Q.

This was great to help my students understand how they can be a good friend and to see how others should also be good friends.

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Ashley A.

I run an EBD room and I had a student ask me to help her learn how to make friends. This ended up being a great resource and she enjoyed it.

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Shelley R.

Great resource! Very helpful! Thank you very much!

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Ilene M G.

The pictures helped to demonstrate appropriate behaviors. We took our time and talked about the different characters. It was a wonderful activity

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Richard P.

Awesome! You can not go wrong with anything from Mrs. D!!

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Nancy L.

I used these activities during social skills class in my k-2 Autistic Support class. The students enjoyed them.

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Vanessa Plascencia

thanks

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Blue Sky Basic

Thank you. You're awesome!

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Shannon Crouch

Very detailed and gave great examples of appropriate and inappropriate choices.

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Amy L.

Thanks!

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Mary Heller

Great for my social skills group!

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HOLLY L.

Great resource to use for practicing skills!

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Rebecca B.

Very unique. My students really like it. Thank you!

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Carla H.

Thank you. Just what I needed to rebuild good relations among students.

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Ms Vs Specialties

Good resource.

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Marianne Vakos

Great resource for social skills.

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Laura Bayer-Smith

great resource

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Aimee R.

This was perfect for my students.