Social Thinking Worksheets for Tweens and Teens Learning to Read in-Between the Social Lines

This book provides a new set of worksheets, adding to the resources already provided in Michelle Garcia Winner's Worksheets for Teaching Social Thinking and Related Skills. The use of worksheets is powerful in helping students to focus cognitively on core concepts related to social functioning. This particular set of worksheets focuses on pre-adolescent and adolescent social concepts. Given social rules and expectations change with age, these worksheets help to encourage more mature Social Thinking and related shifts in one's social skills. Winner explores a wide range of topics from starting with basic Social Thinking understanding of the 4 Steps of Communication, to exploring the hidden rules of the classroom and when is it OK to correct other students. There are worksheets under categories such as What Does it Mean to be a Social Thinker, The Social Fake and Other Tricks, Lessons on Emotions, Participating in Groups, Lessons on Friendship, Being Bossy and Jerky, etc. A favorite lesson for students who are not very nice to each other is called, "Jerks: Them, Us and the Kingdom of Jerkdom". This book includes over 160 worksheets across 9 different lesson sections; a CD contains worksheets for each. Material in this book may be used by older students who are less mature or who learn this information more slowly. The goal of Social Thinking teachings is to provide students with honest thoughtful information for them to better understand how our social minds really work, so students have a better chance of figuring the social code and their related social behaviors out for themselves. Many have found that while the worksheets were developed for students with social learning challenges, many of the topics and related content on the worksheets will benefit virtually all students in the mainstream.