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www.senresourcesource.co.uk is a place to download and print resources for teachers to help you to support children in your classroom with special educational needs. Visit us and see what's available
This social story is designed to help children understand and manage their feelings of anger. It acknowledges that feeling angry or frustrated is normal and okay, but highlights the importance of expressing these emotions in a healthy way. The story explains that hurting others or damaging things is not acceptable, and encourages children to find positive ways to cope with their anger. It offers practical strategies, such as deep breathing, taking a break, or talking to a trusted adult, to help children calm down and manage their emotions in a constructive way.
Whatâs Inside?
Along with a 20-page social story, thereâs also a shorter, adapted version with movable pictures to help engage children on each page.
Why Is This Social Story Helpful?
Social stories use a gentle and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way thatâs easy to understand. They are particularly useful for:
⢠Children who struggle to grasp social concepts.
⢠Learning social skills, social cues, and appropriate responses.
⢠Providing guidance on expectations, emotions, and problem-solving.
⢠Supporting autistic children who may find social interactions challenging and benefit from clear, structured explanations.
How to Use This Story Effectively
⢠Create a focused environment â Read the story in a quiet space with minimal distractions.
⢠Read it regularly â Start by reading it twice, then revisit it often to reinforce learning.
⢠Incorporate it into daily routines â Use the story as part of a structured schedule.
⢠Use it when needed â If the child struggles with apologising, read the story at relevant moments (without making it feel like a punishment).
⢠Encourage and praise â Keep the experience positive, reinforcing good behavior with encouragement.
Durability & Reusability
For long-term use, consider laminating and binding the pages or placing them in a display book. This allows for repeated reading and reinforcement, making the lesson more effective over time.
This social story is designed to support girls who are beginning their journey through puberty and starting their menstrual cycle. Using simple, age-appropriate language and reassuring visuals, the story explains the physical and emotional changes associated with puberty, with a focus on starting a period.
Why Is This Social Story Helpful?
Social stories use a gentle and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way thatâs easy to understand. They are particularly useful for:
⢠Children who struggle to grasp social concepts.
⢠Learning social skills, social cues, and appropriate responses.
⢠Providing guidance on expectations, emotions, and problem-solving.
⢠Supporting autistic children who may find social interactions challenging and benefit from clear, structured explanations.
How to Use This Story Effectively
⢠Create a focused environment â Read the story in a quiet space with minimal distractions.
⢠Read it regularly â Start by reading it twice, then revisit it often to reinforce learning.
⢠Incorporate it into daily routines â Use the story as part of a structured schedule.
⢠Use it when needed â If the child struggles with apologising, read the story at relevant moments (without making it feel like a punishment).
⢠Encourage and praise â Keep the experience positive, reinforcing good behavior with encouragement.
Durability & Reusability
For long-term use, consider laminating and binding the pages or placing them in a display book. This allows for repeated reading and reinforcement, making the lesson more effective over time.
This social story is designed to help children understand the importance of keeping their clothes on in public and appropriate settings. Using clear language and engaging visuals, it explains the concept of privacy and why certain behaviours are best kept private.
Ideal for parents, teachers, and caregivers, this story helps children learn and practice appropriate public behaviour, fostering respect for themselves and others.
Whatâs Inside?
Along with a 15-page social story, thereâs also a shorter, adapted version with movable pictures to help engage children on each page.
Why Is This Social Story Helpful?
Social stories use a gentle and reassuring tone to teach children about social situations in a way thatâs easy to understand. They are particularly useful for:
⢠Children who struggle to grasp social concepts.
⢠Learning social skills, social cues, and appropriate responses.
⢠Providing guidance on expectations, emotions, and problem-solving.
⢠Supporting autistic children who may find social interactions challenging and benefit from clear, structured explanations.
How to Use This Story Effectively
⢠Create a focused environment â Read the story in a quiet space with minimal distractions.
⢠Read it regularly â Start by reading it twice, then revisit it often to reinforce learning.
⢠Incorporate it into daily routines â Use the story as part of a structured schedule.
⢠Use it when needed â If the child struggles with apologising, read the story at relevant moments (without making it feel like a punishment).
⢠Encourage and praise â Keep the experience positive, reinforcing good behavior with encouragement.
Durability & Reusability
For long-term use, consider laminating and binding the pages or placing them in a display book. This allows for repeated reading and reinforcement, making the lesson more effective over time.
Teach children the value of kindness and respect with our âHurting Othersâ Social Stories Bundle. This set of 10 stories helps children understand why itâs important to avoid hurting others and encourages using gentle actions and words instead. Each story offers clear guidance on positive behaviors, fostering a caring and safe environment for all.
Includes:
Biting
Bullying
Hair Pulling
Hitting
Kicking
Scratching
Kind Hands
Kind Feet
Kind Words
Saying Sorry
Social stories use a calm and supportive tone to explain social situations in a way that is easy for children to understand. They are especially helpful for children on the autism spectrum, who may find it challenging to interpret social cues or experience anxiety about unfamiliar situations.
To reinforce these lessons, we recommend using the stories regularly. For durability, consider placing the pages in a display book or laminating and binding them for repeated use.
3 Worksheets for subtraction within 10 in which children use pictures to solve subtraction calculations by crossing out the correct number of pictures and counting how many are left.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art
Worksheets for children to understand and practice positional language.
Language included:
In front
Behind
Next to
Beside
In between
Above
Below
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art
5 Worksheets with different activities to support children with addition within 10 including counting spots on dice, counting fingers, pictures, numicon and addition on a number line.
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Aty and Arty Clips Graphics
10 Worksheets in which children can practice tracing over and writing numbers 1-10. There are also activities to count and draw the correct number of objects. One worksheet for each number from 1-10
Clipart images courtesy of Kari Bolt Clip Art
Colourful Semantics is a structured language intervention designed to support the development of language and communication skills, particularly in children with speech and language difficulties. This resource includes jigsaw cards for children to match together the correct colour coded sentence with picture.
Why do you need this?
Colourful Semantics uses colour coded cards to help children to learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order. By visually representing each part of the sentence with a specific colour, learners can better understand the structure and meaning of sentences, as well as the relationships between words.
How and when might you use this?
This approach is often implemented through a variety of interactive and hands-on activities, such as sentence building games, storytelling, and picture-based exercises. It can be tailored to the individual needs and abilities of learners, making it suitable for use in both classroom settings and speech and language clinics.
Whatâs included?
30 jigsaw cards to match the picture to the correct colour coded sentence.
Flash cards showing homophones with corresponding pictures.
Why do you need this?
These Homophone Flash Cards make learning these tricky sound-alike words engaging and effective. The set includes 68 cards featuring common homophone pairs with corresponding pictures.
Learning to identify and properly use words that sound the same but have different meanings is a key phonics and reading comprehension skill. These Homophone Flash Cards give students focused practice to build mastery of these tricky words through repetitive exposure and visual association. The pictures aid retention while keeping students interested.
How and when might you use this?
There is one flash card for each word which teachers can either show as sets of 2 or print or laminate as a two sided card.
Teachers can use these cards for small group lessons, literacy centers, and vocabulary reinforcement.
What is included?
68 Flash cards. Homophone words included: hear, here, heel, heal, main, mane, male, mail, knot, not, break, brake, die, dye, I, eye, night, knight, ate, eight, bear, bare, bury, berry, dear, deer, flu, flew, know, no, made, maid, meet, meat, blew, blue, ,flower, flour, hair, hare, one, won, pain, pane, pail, pale, pause, paws, pear, pair, red, read, right, write, see, sea, stairs, stares, tale, tail, toe, tow, tea, tee, ring, wring, ball bawl
45 Flash cards showing CVCC words with corresponding pictures.
Why do you need this?
Mastering CVCC words (Consonant-Vowel-Consonant-Consonant) is an important early reading milestone. These CVCC Word and Picture Flash Cards provide engaging practice to boost decoding, spelling and vocabulary skills. Working with these cards increases exposure to the common CVCC pattern, laying the foundation for decoding unfamiliar words.
How and when might you use this?
Teachers can use the cards for direct instruction, literacy centers, word walls, and reading games.
Whatâs included?
This set includes 45 printable flash cards with short CVCC words like sand, bank, ring, fish etc each paired with colorful illustrations.
Variety of blank faces, both boys and girls, for children to draw on eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth to represent the emotion they are feeling.
Why do you need this?
These worksheets provide a creative outlet for children to express and explore their emotions visually. Drawing facial expressions allows children to externalise their feelings and communicate them in a tangible way.
Drawing their own facial expressions encourages children to reflect on their emotions and recognise how they are feeling. This process promotes self-awareness and emotional literacy as children learn to identify and label their emotions.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets could be used in a variety of ways:
¡ Teachers can incorporate these worksheets into morning work to draw the facial expression that reflects how they are feeling at the start of the day. This activity sets a positive tone for the day and allows teachers to gauge studentsâ emotional well-being.
¡ During transition throughout the day teachers can have children fill in these sheets as a check in with their emotions.
¡ During PSHE lessons to teach students about different emotions and how to express them.
¡ Small group work where the children discuss and reflect on different emotions together.
¡ During counselling sessions to help students process and express their emotions.
¡ Teachers can integrate the worksheets into art activities to combine creative expression with emotional exploration
Whatâs included?
Resource includes 16 different face outlines with different hair styles.
25 worksheets each with 6 different activities to support learning to read and spell high frequency sight words: reading, colouring, making the word with magnets, tracing, writing and putting the word into a sentence.
Why do you need this?
Instantly recognising common sight words is a milestone of early reading fluency. These 25 worksheets provide multi-sensory practice reading, spelling, tracing, and using frequently encountered vocabulary like âtheâ, âandâ, âisâ and more. With six activities per page, students gain repeated exposure through varied formats. Tracing and writing build motor skills and proper letter formation. Fun exercises like forming the words in magnets and filling in blanks allow practical application.
How and when might you use this?
Each worksheet focuses on six different high-frequency words. Students will read the word, color in the word, arrange letter magnets to form the word, trace the word, write them from memory, and use them in sentences. These techniques reinforce sight word recognition through visual, kinesthetic, and cognitive learning styles.
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
¡ During small group phonics sessions
¡ Independent work stations
¡ Homework practice
¡ Guided reading groups
¡ Morning work
¡ Reading interventions for children who need additional support
¡ Whole class instruction
Whatâs included?
25 PDF worksheets
Lesson package encouraging children to use kind hands and giving ideas of how to do this.
Why do you need this?
This lesson package can help teachers establish clear expectations for respectful behavior in the classroom, emphasizing the importance of treating others with kindness and empathy.
By focusing on the concept of âkind hands,â teachers can support studentsâ social-emotional development, helping them understand the impact of their actions on others and develop empathy and compassion. Teaching students about kind hands can contribute to creating a positive and inclusive classroom culture, reducing incidents of bullying and conflict by promoting empathy and respect for others.
How and when might you use this?
Due to the content of this lesson package it can be quite flexible in the range of ages it can be used with. A teacher might use a lesson about kind hands at various points throughout the school year, depending on the needs of their students and the classroom dynamics.
What is included?
¡ Lesson planning
¡ Teaching slides
¡ Worksheet
¡ Kind Hands Social story
Checklist for children to look at and think about which calming strategies work best for them when in a heightened emotional state.
Why do you need this?
Children dealing with heightened emotional states, especially those struggling with anger issues often need guidance and support to navigate their emotions efficiently. This checklist is a good tool to help teachers to be proactive in helping children manage their stress, it aims to involve children actively in self-regulating their emotions.
How and when might you use this?
This might be used in a variety of ways:
¡ During PSHE lessons focused on emotional regulation and coping strategies, helping children identify which work best for them.
¡ Following a conflict or behavioural incident a tool for self-reflection to think about their reaction to anger and what strategies they may use instead in the future.
¡ As 1:1 support for a child struggling with anger management.
¡ During counselling sessions to support students in exploring their anger triggers and developing personalised coping strategies.
¡ As a whole class activity to promote a classroom culture of emotional awareness and self-regulation.
Whatâs included?
One PDF worksheet showing a checklist of calming strategies that children might use when angry. Children can go down the list and check either âthis helpsâ, âthis sometimes helpsâ, âthis does not helpâ
Poster showing the ways positive self-talk can help you feel happier, more confident and healthier. Worksheet in which children can write some ideas of positive things they can say to themselves.
Why do you need this?
Positive self-talk is essential for promoting mental health and well-being among students. By displaying a poster that highlights the benefits of positive self-talk, teachers can encourage students to adopt a more optimistic and empowering mindset.
Teaching students to use positive self-talk can help them develop resilience in the face of challenges and setbacks. By reframing negative thoughts into positive affirmations, students can better cope with stress, adversity, and uncertainty.
How and when might you use this?
The poster can be prominently displayed in the classroom, serving as a visual reminder of the importance of positive self-talk. Teachers can refer to it during discussions about emotional well-being or as part of lessons on self-esteem and confidence.
Teachers or counsellors can use the positive self-talk worksheet with children struggling with self-esteem or issues with anxiety.
What is included?
Included in this resource is:
¡ A poster showing the ways positive self-talk is helpful
¡ A worksheet where children can write examples of positive self-talk. The worksheet is provided in both color and black and white versions
¡ A copy of the worksheet showing examples of what positive self-talk may look like
Sequencing pictures for children to cut out and order of events.
Why do you need this?
Sequencing pictures can help children understand the chronological order of events in a story or narrative. Teachers can use them to reinforce storytelling skills and support comprehension.
Working with sequencing pictures encourages critical thinking as children analyse the sequence of events and identify the correct order. It promotes problem-solving and decision-making skills.
Sequencing activities promote language development by encouraging children to describe the events depicted in the pictures. It provides opportunities for vocabulary expansion and oral language practice.
How and when might you use this?
This activity could be used in a variety of ways such as:
¡ Early learning independent work
¡ Small group instruction to provide targeted support
¡ Speech and language support
¡ Independent work stations
For continued use I would recommend laminating this resource and using Velcro to move the jigsaw pieces around.
What is included?
Included are 11 boards showing first, next, then, last. Each board has 4 sequencing pictures to order. Sequencing pictures include:
¡ Doing laundry
¡ Making the bed
¡ Making breakfast cereal
¡ Making a sandwich
¡ Washing the dishes
¡ Making a sundae
¡ A snowman melting
¡ Carving a pumpkin
¡ Building a sandcastle
¡ Baking cookies
Worksheet in which children think about what their thoughts, feelings and reactions were at a time when something went wrong. This can open up discussion to better ways to handle when things go wrong.
Why do you need this?
Encouraging children to reflect on their thoughts, feelings, and reactions during challenging situations promotes self-awareness. It helps them understand their emotional responses and thought patterns. By examining their reactions to difficult situations, children can learn to identify triggers for negative emotions and develop strategies for managing them effectively.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets could be used in a variety of ways:
¡ In lessons on social-emotional learning that focus on understanding and managing their emotions.
¡ Use it as a guided activity to help children identify the common thought patterns associated with different emotions and brainstorm positive alternatives.
¡ Following an emotional incident or conflict as a tool for self-reflection.
¡ During counselling sessions to support students in managing their emotions and developing coping strategies. Empower children to challenge their negative thoughts with positive ones.
¡ As a prompt for whole class discussions about emotional well-being and positive thinking.
¡ As part of an end of the day check-in routine. Children can have time to reflect on their thoughts and feelings.
What is included?
Included are 2 different versions of the worksheet â one for a boy and one for a girl.
Worksheets in which children think about and list the things that make them feel happy, sad, angry, stressed, frustrated or anxious.
Why do you need this?
Teachers might use these worksheets to encourage children to recognise and understand their emotions better. It helps them develop emotional awareness and gives teachers insights into potential sources of stress or concern for individual students.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets could be used during individual counselling sessions, group discussions, or as part of a classroom activity focused on emotional intelligence. They can be integrated into lessons on social-emotional learning or mental health awareness. Itâs a way to prompt reflection and discussion about emotions, helping students identify triggers and coping strategies.
What is included?
6 worksheets showing an emotion and then with 7 bubbles for children to write things that make them feel that emotion. The emotions included are frustrated, anxious, angry, sad, happy and stressed.
Listening activities that have pictures for children to follow instructions to color and add to. Promotes listening and concentration skills.
Why do you need this?
Listening is a fundamental skill for academic success and effective communication. By engaging in listening activities with clear instructions and visual cues, students can practice active listening and improve their ability to follow directions accurately.
Following instructions while completing a task requires focused attention and concentration. Listening activities with visual prompts encourage students to concentrate on the task at hand, enhancing their ability to stay engaged and attentive.
How and when might you use this?
To use this activity each child involved will have their own copy of the picture and then the teacher will read out clear verbal instructions for children to listen to and follow. Children will all need a variety of coloring pencils available to them.
What is included?
Included are 8 pictures and instruction sheets. Contains two versions of the resource one with the English spelling and one with the American spelling (colour / color).