Adventures at Animal Learning School: Story-Based Activities (set 1)

Adventures at Animal Learning School: Story-Based Activities (set 1)

Adapted story-based lessons that teach social-emotional skills, classroom behaviors, communication, and independence for elementary students with special needs.

4 Engaging Social Stories for Building Confidence, Communication, and Classroom Success

Help students learn important social-emotional and classroom readiness skills with the Adventures at Animal Learning School! This engaging collection follows Abby, Zander, Leo, Jayson, and their caring teachers through meaningful school experiences that teach students how to manage feelings, follow expectations, listen to others, and ask for help with confidence.

Designed with visual learners and students who benefit from explicit instruction, repetition, and predictable routines, these adapted stories are written at a student-friendly reading level while remaining age respectful and engaging.

Each bundle includes:

✔ Communication Board for modeling language and supporting participation
✔ Illustrated Social Narrative Story written at a student-friendly reading level
✔ Vocabulary Activity to introduce and reinforce key words from the story
✔ Comprehension Check Activity to assess understanding of story concepts
✔ Story Walk Activity to build engagement, prediction, and discussion skills
✔ Graphic Organizer to support understanding of key story elements and concepts
✔ Story Sequencing Activity to practice retelling and recalling events in order
✔ Visual Tools and Supports to reinforce skills, routines, and generalization across settings

Everything is designed to provide explicit instruction, repeated practice, and meaningful opportunities for students to build communication, social-emotional, and classroom success skills.

This bundle includes 4 complete social stories:

🐾 First Day Jitters
Help students navigate first-day worries, new routines, meeting classmates, and building confidence when starting school. Students learn that feeling nervous is normal and that school can become a safe, fun place to learn.

🐾 The Picture Perfect Way
Teach classroom expectations through visual supports, expectation posters, transition supports, social stories, and positive reinforcement. Students learn how visuals can help them follow directions, move through the day successfully, and feel prepared for change.

🐾 The Great Listening Adventure
Build strong listening skills through explicit instruction in:
✔ Eyes on the Speaker
✔ Active Listening
✔ No Interrupting
✔ Summarizing
✔ SLANT strategies

Students practice using their bodies, words, and attention to become stronger listeners at school, home, and with friends.

🐾 Help is a Friend
Teach self-advocacy and problem-solving through step-by-step instruction on:
✔ Identifying the problem
✔ Asking for help
✔ Working together to solve problems

Students learn that asking for help is a strength and that teachers, friends, and family can all be part of the solution.

Important Notes

This is a SINGLE-USE LICENSE. Materials may not be redistributed.
ONLY the original purchaser may use these materials.
Activities are self-explanatory and do not include formal lesson plans.
Some instructional language and visual elements in this product were developed with support from AI tools (OpenAI’s ChatGPT and/or Gemini) and were reviewed and edited by SpecialEdSimplified to ensure accuracy, accessibility, and alignment with student needs.