Social Language

Helpful Links:

This site is offering free 30-day trials and has some great materials:Everyday Speech

This page has links to videos and suggestions about how to use them: The Speech Express

Lots of great free read-alouds and videos here: Social Thinking

There's some great information and activities on this site: Do 2 Learn

Free Read Aloud & Thinksheets: We Thinkers Social Explorers (ages 4-7)The We Thinkers! series helps children build foundational social competencies and essential life skills through stories, lessons, and play activities. The teachings help kids better understand themselves and others, develop self-awareness, perspective taking, social problem solving, and supports students' social-emotional learning, relationship building, classroom learning, and academic performance. For virtual tools to help you reach kids during these emotionally fragile times, check out our free read aloud and downloadable resources.

Free Read Aloud & Thinksheets: You are a Social Detective & Superflex (ages 5-10+)You have to reach kids before you can teach them—You Are a Social Detective! and Superflex are wonderful allies in reaching kids with a cast of colorful characters who engage kids in learning to self-regulate. For virtual tools to help you reach kids during these emotionally fragile times, check out our free read aloud and downloadable resources.

Free Read Aloud & Thinksheets: Whole Body Listening Larry (ages 4-10)In these adorable free read aloud storybooks, Larry teaches listening skills with thought-provoking rhymes that teach concrete, structured, and systematic lessons in a kid-friendly way. When his peers demonstrate that they aren't listening, Larry helps them understand how this impacts others, and to support the thoughts and feelings of others by listening with every part of their body.

Free Read Aloud & Thinksheets: Social Fortune or Social Fate (ages 10+)The focus of Social Fortune or Social Fate is to teach individuals about the social-emotional responsibility we all have to those around us as we share space or interact with them. This requires individuals to have social awareness and the social-emotional abilities to carry out that responsibility. For virtual tools to help you reach kids and teenagers during these emotionally fragile times, check out our free read aloud and downloadable resources.

Apps to Support Social Language Development

Betwwen the Lines

Using real photographs, voices and short mini-video clips of a variety of social situations and expressions, this app provides a dynamic way to help learn and practice interpreting messages that are "between the lines"

Model Me Kids

Lots of great free video modeling apps here!