Social Skills Groups

I started small groups this week. For my first and second grade social skills group I am using First Steps to Social Success by Diane Senn. There are 25 lessons so I pick 8 lessons for each grade level two from each of the 4 topics covered:

• Knowing Myself First
• Initiating with Others
• Learning Conversation Skills
• Reading Social Cues: Seeing, Thinking, Doing

For my third and fourth grade I use Senn's Next Steps to Social Success. These resources have good pre-post tests and handout too. I select lessons from the featured topics in Next Steps:

• Building Friendships
• Managing Friendships
• Handling Friendship Problems
• Social Skills in the Classroom

You could use lessons from both books but I am using them at different grade levels and tracking which lesson I have used. I may need to do a second group later in the year for some of the students and there are still plenty of lesson left. 

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