Spotlight on Social Skills–Elementary: Making Social Inferences E-Book

Ages: 6–10
Grades: 1–5

Students learn to make logical inferences about social relationships and social situations using teaching methods especially suited for those with autism spectrum disorders and language-learning disabilities. The activity pages consist of interesting graphic organizers, photos, and art supported with specific, clear directions. Students discuss the clues that lead to logical inferences, making social expectations and behaviors more explicit for better understanding the abstract dynamics of social relationships.

Targeted skills include:

• understand what an inference is and how to make an inference
• make logical inferences about pictured everyday contexts
• infer typical social responses/manners
• infer relationships and emotions from pictured situations
• infer causes and effects in social situations
• understand social hints that are indirect requests

Students practice these skills:

• recognizing friendly faces and friendly actions
• understanding others' feelings
• making polite requests
• group etiquette
• dealing with arguments and making apologies
• giving compliments and being a good sport
• how to handle secrets and tattling

The activities teach explicit conversation skills with these learning strategies:

• direct instruction
• modeling
• observation
• discussion
• role-playing
• other guided practice

Extra helps include:

• pretest/posttest
• conversation skills checklist
• answer key

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40 pages • E-Book • ©2009