Act It Out - Fun Social Skills Activity for Body Language and Facial Expressions

by Kathy Babineau
Grades Pre-K - 3rd

Act It Out

Act It Out! Get silly and move around a little bit. This fun social skills activity set includes 72 colorful cards that are easy to use in small and large groups. Use the cards as a charades activity or simply have students act out what the card says to practice movement, body language skills and facial expressions. 

These are also great movement break activities for the whole class!

Enjoy!

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Social Skills Bundle

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Halloween, Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays Social Skills Bundle

by Kathy Babineau
Grades K-5

Halloween, Thanksgiving and Winter Holidays Social Skills Bundle

Here's what you need to address social skills through the fall and winter holidays! Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas (also appropriate for Hanukkah) can be fun, but can also be challenging and stressful for kids with social skill deficits and their families. This fun, easy to use set of 144 cards includes problem solving, sticking to the topic in conversation, role playing and body language. It is a money saving bundle of three social skill sets!

This money saving bundle includes the following holiday social skills sets:

Halloween Social Skills Cards

Turkey Talk Thanksgiving Social Skills Cards

Winter Holiday Social Skills Task Cards

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Yes and No Questions Kit

by Kathy Babineau
Grades K-5

Yes and No Questions Kit

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This Yes/No Questions Kit contains a variety of materials and a systematic way to target and track progress on answering yes and no questions. Many of my students with significant language disorders and children with autism have difficulty answering yes/no questions. 

Level 1: Targets the most basic yes/no questions related to a child's wants and needs. Suggestions and visuals for yes/no to use in small group or 1:1 instruction and for display throughout the classroom are included.

Level 2: Targets yes/no questions to identify known items. Included in this level are suggestions for implementation as well as possible modifications, visually appealing yes/no question cards, receptive/expressive vocabulary screener and data collection sheets.

Level 3: Targets yes/no questions about general knowledge and opinion. Included in this level are suggestions and ideas for implementation, visual yes/no question cards and data collection sheets.

I sincerely hope this product is helpful to you and to your students. Please be sure to leave feedback to receive credit towards future TPT products. 

Thank you!

Kathy Babineau MS, CCC-SLP

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Why and How Questions Bundle

by Kathy Babineau
Grades 1-4

Why and How Questions Bundle

This fun language pack contains 120 question cards to tackle those tricky how and why questions. Many children with language disabilities struggle with these. This pack gives you an opportunity to practice answering how and why questions in a fun and direct format. 

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Emotions Activity Kit

by Kathy Babineau
Grades PK-6

Emotions Activity Kit

This emotions unit includes colorful and b/w cards with illustrations that can be used in a variety of ways, question cards for interaction in groups or whole class lessons, printable full-page descriptions, worksheets and more. 

10 colorful emotion cards (w/label and illustration)
10 b/w emotion cards (w/label and illustration)
10 Make a Face cards
10 “Show what your face would look like if…” cards
10 “Tell about a time when you felt…” cards
8 Social scenario “How do you feel” cards
10 b/w full page emotion pages (label, definition/description of emotion and illustration). These can be reproduced for each student and compiled as personal books
10 colorful emotion pages (label, definition/description of emotion and illustration). These can be used as class posters or compiled as a class book.
10 reproducible worksheets – one for each emotion included
List of recommended read-alouds
Page of additional suggested activities
Page of other feeling words to discuss
Credits
Emotions included: Happy, proud, scared, shy, curious, sad, bored, surprised, angry, embarrassed

Kathy Babineau MS, CCC-SLP

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Super Problem Solvers - Super Hero Themed Social Skill Activities

by Kathy Babineau
Grades 1-6

Super Problem Solvers

Never fear! The Super Problem Solvers are here! This superhero themed social skills set will help give your students the super powers they need to succeed socially!

This activity set contains:
72 social skill problem solver cards with social scenarios and questions. Answers are not included, because there are multiple solutions to many of the situations. Students are encouraged to brainstorm and think about the questions. 
Black/white printables including some simple forms on which teachers/students can write what was discussed in social skills group or in class. This will allow the children to share with parents/caregivers the topics discussed. 
Rubric that the kids can use to rate their social behaviors during group. 
Colorful super social skills reminder posters are included. These are simple and easy room decorations that can help to remind kids of social skill expectations. 
Social Skills Superhero printable award certificates.

To use the set simply print out all pages. Cut apart and laminate the cards and posters. Make multiple copies of the black/white pages. 

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Social Skills All Year

by Kathy Babineau
Grades KG-6

Social Skills All Year

This kit contains 240 cards covering seasonal scenarios and topics. For each month of the year (including summer months), there are 4 Topic Talker cards, 4 Role Playing cards, 4 Facial Expression/Body Language cards, 4 Problem Solver cards, and 4 Perspective Taker cards, for a total of 20 cards for each month of the year. Cards are simply marked with the month of the year, but they can also be mixed and matched throughout the year if you would rather not focus on themes. 

The Topic Talker Cards offer suggested topics of conversation, many of which are related to timely topics and holidays. Some other generic school based topics have been included in order to be sensitive to students who may not observe particular holidays. These topic talker cards are helpful for students who are trying to work to maintain on-topic exchanges with peers, addressing attention to conversation and even general expressive and receptive language. 

The Role Playing cards also address many timely topics. When using the Role Playing cards, I like to have multiple teams role play the same scenes, because there may be several correct ways to “act out” the situation. It is also fun sometimes to role play the situation in an inappropriate way and then discuss why it may be hurtful or inappropriate or offensive. Be sure to brainstorm and discuss how body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice and word choice are all important to communication. 

The Facial Expression/Body Language cards are fun to use to think about and practice ways that we communicate with our faces and our bodies. 

The Problem Solver cards offer students opportunities to think about social situations, analyze the problem and generate practical solutions. There is not always just one correct answer to these problems. 

The Perspective Taker cards encourage students to put themselves in a situation or in someone else’s shoes and decide how they might feel. 

To use this kit, simply print out all sheets and then cut apart and laminate (optional) the cards, and you are good to go! They are all in black and white (except the cover page) to go easy on the color copying budget. 

I hope you like this and find it helpful when working with your students!

Kathy Babineau

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Formulating Questions

by Kathy Babineau
Grades 1-4

Formulating Questions

Many of my students with language disorders have difficulty formulating questions.  This kit contains 45 answer cards (with colorful pictures) and 45 question cards.  To prepare this product, Simply print, cut apart and laminate the cards.  There are several ways to use this card set. 

Option #1:  Present the answer cards to students, and ask them to come up with logical questions to match the answer cards.  The point is to try to generate questions using correct form and question type.  There will be many possible correct questions to each “answer”.  Cue or prompt verbally and/or show the “Words That Begin Questions” mini-poster visual included with this product.  Kids can give answers verbally or for more practice or to make this an independent activity, they can write out the questions in a notebook or on whiteboards.

Option #2:  Use the question and answer cards together using a matching format.  To do this, place cards face up on the table (or face down if you want to use a game format), and ask the child to find logical matches with question and answer cards.  Because there are so many cards, it may be easier to present 10 at a time, but that is your choice.

Option #3:  Present the question cards to students and ask them to generate logical answers.  This was not the original intent of the product, but it can be used this way.  Since I usually have groups of kids with a variety of language goals, this allows for some flexibility in targeting goals and addressing asking and answering questions.

 There are some answer cards that may match multiple question cards and vice versa.  Use your own discretion for acceptable answers.  For example, the question card “Where did the man put his money?” could match the answer cards “in his pocket” or “on the top shelf”.  An answer key is included to show the intended question and answer matches, although you can be flexible with this.   

Thanks for checking it out!

Kathy Babineau MS, CCC-SLP

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Beach Themed Act It Out

by Kathy Babineau
Grades KG-4

Beach Themed Act It Out

Welcome Summer!

This kit contains 28 colorful Beach Themed “Act It Out” cards. Print them out, cut them apart and laminate them (optional). Use the cards with individual students, in small groups or in whole class lessons. Kids love to get silly with this activity, but it is also a wonderful way to address movement, body language and thinking skills. These can be used as a charades activity in which one child acts out what is on the card while others guess, or can be used more directly by having the kids simply act out what is on the card. 

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