Friendship Social Story Adapted Book | Kindness Social Skills | SLP SPED Autism

Build social skills, kindness, and friendship with this Friendship Social Story Adapted Book and Activities, "You're My Special Friend"! This social story unit teaches students how to be a good friend through kindness — and appropriate, concrete ways to be kind to others. A meaningful, interactive way to target social-emotional and language goals.

📖 Sample Text

If you're sad and need to cry…

If your laces need a tie…

I'll be right there standing by.

You're my special friend.

If you need someone to read…

or share with you the thing you need…

I'll be there in record speed.

You're my special friend.

If you need a wave hello,

or help to clean a big "uh-oh"… I

'll be there, and we both know…

You're my special friend.

📦 What's Included

• 1 interactive Adapted Book — "You're My Special Friend"
• 16 Task Cards for practice and review
• 9 full-color "Ways to Be Kind" posters / visuals (display in a cool-down area or keep on a metal ring at student desks)
• 1 black-and-white reflection sheet for students to reflect on being a good friend
• (See photos and video for examples.)

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Social skills and friendship
• Kindness and being a good friend
• Social-emotional learning (SEL)
• Perspective-taking and empathy
• Conversation and discussion skills
• Self-reflection
• Receptive and expressive language
• Listening comprehension
• Following along in a book
• Behavior and character education

📚 How to Use

• Read the book aloud with students, then complete and discuss the task cards as a group
• Use the "Ways to Be Kind" posters as visual reinforcers — display in a cool-down area or keep on a metal ring at student desks
• Use the reflection sheet for students to reflect on how to be a good friend
• Great for social skills groups — designed to foster conversations about friendship and kindness
• Pull for speech therapy, counseling, SEL lessons, or behavior support
• Use during a friendship, kindness, back-to-school, or community-building unit

💛 Perfect For

• Speech-language therapy sessions (SLPs)
• Special education classrooms (SPED)
• Autism classrooms and ABA programs
• School counselors and SEL instruction
• Social skills groups
• Behavior support and character education
• Preschool, PreK, Kindergarten, and elementary
• Back-to-school and community-building units
• Early childhood and ECSE
• Homeschool social-emotional learning

🌟 Why Teachers, SLPs & Counselors Love This Resource

• A complete social story unit — book, 16 task cards, 9 posters, and a reflection sheet
• Teaches kindness and being a good friend in concrete, teachable ways
• Designed to foster conversation — perfect for social skills groups
• "Ways to Be Kind" posters double as visual reinforcers for a cool-down area
• Accessible for all abilities — interactive and engaging
• Works for small group, whole group, and 1:1
• Reusable year after year once laminated

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