This social skills activity gives students hands-on practice with identifying non-verbal signs of interest and disinterest during conversations and social interactions
Social Skills Worksheets: Activities Packet PDF
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Social Skills Activities Packet
With this packet of thirteen products in their repertoire, speech language pathologists, social workers, psychologists, teachers, and life skill coaches will be able to effectively help their students and clients develop the social skills necessary to function adequately in the social world. The packet begins with a Communication Skills Questionnaire that can start to open your students’ and clients’ eyes to the myriad skills with which they may receive help, while assisting you in choosing goals to target. The next two products, Entering Conversations and Conversational Elaboration, are pretty self-explanatory. I’ve found that these are two of the conversation skills many of my students most want to improve. Polite Wording and Tact help students start to think about others’ and how their wording affects their listeners. Time Sensitivity and Kinesics and Conversation Skills both involve being sensitive to your communicative partner’s time limits, the first by considering the context and the second by observing and interpreting non-verbal signs of interest or disinterest. Editing Verbal Narratives and Speaking to Different Listeners takes listener presupposition to the next level because students must now take into consideration not only their communicative partner’s time limits but also their listener’s interests and needs by adjusting their own content accordingly. At this point, many students are ready for Developing Empathy, which further improves perspective-taking skills and provides closer-to-real-life practice at considering others’ feelings. Complaint Letters: Reader Presupposition is for more advanced students ready to dissect and analyze wording (with lots of examples and support) in terms of its effect on others at a more sophisticated level. The last social skills product in this packet, Perspective Taking, works on generalization of the skills learned by assigning the task of observing and analyzing social interactions in the “real world”, outside of the remediation setting.
Social Emotional Learning Activities Included In The Social Skills Worksheets Packet
Editing Verbal Narratives Activities Worksheets
Ideal for anyone who gives too much information, this task works on the ability to regard one’s listener when choosing which information to include in verbal narratives
Polite Wording Worksheets
Students learn to regard others’ feelings and are tasked with incorporating given “softening” words and phrases into opinion statements and requests
Tact Worksheets
Students discuss provided tactless statements, learning to identify properties of offensiveness, bragging, inappropriateness, over-generalization, and prejudice
Speaking to Different Listeners Worksheets
Students learn to tailor information to specific listeners, in terms of both their listeners’ needs and what impressions they hope to give to their listeners
Perspective Taking Homework Assignment
Students are assigned the task of observing social interactions and speculating on the emotional effect of those interactions on the participants
Developing Empathy Activities
This comprehensive social skills product includes extensive discussion, an activity, homework, and therapeutic notes, all targeting the ability to regard others’ feelings
Writing A Complaint Letter
Another favorite! Both a writing and social skills task, this product improves the ability to regard one’s reader when choosing content and wording
Communication Skills Questionnaire
Students check which social skills they’d like to work on in the areas of conversation, practical skills, non-verbal, dating, and conflict
Time Sensitivity
An engaging activity that increases students’ awareness of their listeners’ needs and improves their ability to limit their content to fit those needs
Entering Conversations
An outline of the steps necessary to enter a conversation already in progress, including body proximity, verbal strategies, and determination of acceptance
Elaboration in Conversations
Rates a variety of answers to the same question in terms of elaboration, thereby giving students ideas on how they can extend natural conversations
Set The Scene
This easy-to-use worksheet provides educators and speech language pathologists with an effective way to teach students to provide orienting details when starting a simple, conversational story.
