Social Skills Stories for the End of the School Year

You might be a teacher or educator if you’ve started counting down to the last day of school.

And as excited as we all might be, we aren’t there YET! And the final weeks of school can be very busy!

The end of the year brings a lot of change, and with this anticipated change, we often see an increase in behaviors in our classrooms. This is especially true of our students who crave predictability and routine.

I find one strategy that helps is incorporating social skills stories into our routine. These are social narratives that explain a situation or routine in detail. They outine what will likely happen, and other key details like when, why, and strategies they can use to cope with the situation.

Here are some of my favorite social skills stories to read as the end of the year approaches including my FREE Going to Kindergarten Social Skills Story. Keep scrolling to read more!

Are you preparing students for ESY and looking for ESY social stories? This ESY social story about attending Extended School Year summer school is perfect for prek, kindergarten, and special education students. Made with Boardmaker PCS it's a great end of year activity to do in Autism classrooms.

It comes in 4 formats (full size pages in both color and B&W and mini size pages in both color and B&W).

It explains: What ESY is, who will be there (with options to choose new staff and friends, or the same)., what the environment will be like, what the schedule will be like (with options to choose from) and that it will be fun and great for learning new things! Click here to check it out.

Are you preparing students for summer break and need end of the school year social stories? Made with Boardmaker PCS it's a great end of year activity to do with students in Autism classrooms who are preparing to transition from school to summer break / summer vacation.

This Summer Break Social Skills Story comes in 4 formats (full size pages in both color and B&W and mini size pages in both color and B&W).

It explains: what summer break is, that there is no school during summer (but includes an optional summer school page), what types of activities they might do in the summer, when they will return to school, what the return will be like and what changes they can expect when they return (new grade, teacher, classroom). Click here to check it out.

Are you preparing students for graduation and looking for graduation social stories?

This Graduation Social Skills Story comes in 4 formats (full size pages in both color and B&W and mini size pages in both color and B&W).

It explains: what graduation is, what a diploma is, who will be there, what is commonly worn (nice clothing, gowns and caps), what the routine will be like, what to do when crossing the stage, what will happen after the ceremony (optional), and how they (and others) might feel about their accomplishment.

Click here to learn more about this graduation social story!

Are you looking for field trip social stories for your special education classroom? This field trip social story allows you to customize it for a farm field trip, a zoo field trip or 9 others including the aquarium, museum, art museum, splash pad, amusement park, swimming pool, skating rink, city or the city library.

This going on a field trip social story helps prepare students for the change in routine that happens on a field trip day.

It explains: what a field trip is, the typical routine, the location of the trip (choose from 11), who is going (with additional optional pages), how everyone will get there (with 2 options to choose from), common safety rules (staying with the group, listening to instructions), and other details which you can choose to include to further prepare students (such as if they will or will not bring a backpack, wear a name tag or a wristband etc). Click here to grab this field trip story!

Are you going on an end of year trip? Are you taking the school bus?

This going on the bus social story helps to teach important social skills about how to ride the school bus and follow common bus safety rules.

The social story explains the bus routine, safety rules, and comes with optional pages to use if your student uses a harness, seatbelt, or wheelchair lift.

The story chunks information to help prek, kindergarten, Autistic, and special needs students, and uses Boardmaker picture communication symbols (PCS).

It also comes in both color and black and white, giving you options if you don't have access to color ink, or if you think your student would like to color the images. Printing in black and white and stapling the book also gives you a low prep opportunity to help your student generalize the skill (at home). Click here to learn more!

This Going Back to School Social Story is perfect for prek, kindergarten, and special education students. Made with Boardmaker picture symbols (PCS) it's a great social narrative to read to students in Autism classrooms at beginning of the year to prepare them for the transition from the end of summer break and back to school.

This Going Back to School Social Skills Story comes in 4 formats (full size pages in both color and B&W and mini size pages in both color and B&W).

It explains: that they will be going back soon, that it's normal to have different feelings (and to feel excited or nervous), that they will have a new classroom and new teacher (with optional pages for the same classroom and same teacher, easy to customize), that their teacher will be kind and helpful, that they will see their friends and make new friends, that they will learn and play with their friends, and that school is fun and they will have a good first day back.

Click here to get your copy now!

Are you looking for special education social stories for your preschool about going to kindergarten for the first time?

This FREE Going to Kindergarten social skills story / social narrative helps to prepare prek / preschool special education students as they transition to kindergarten. This social skills story is great to prepare your students for kindergarten ESY or back to school in August or September.

Made with Boardmaker picture symbols (PCS), this social skills story is great for special education, Autism, ESCE, ESY, and prek / preschool classrooms where student's are getting ready for kindergarten.

This social skills story about beginning kindergarten comes in a black and white version to make for fast and easy prep. This also allows it to be used as a coloring book for a fun and engaging social skills activity.

I know you’re probably excited for summer! Your students though might be anxious about not knowing how things will change for them. You might even seen an increase in challenging behavior toward the end of the year because of this.

Help ease their anxiety, prepare them for the changes they might go through, and cut down on challenging behaviors by reading these end of the school year social skills stories!