Sarcastic vs. Serious Text Messages High School Situations
by Applied Behavior Essentials © 2026
Price: $2.5 USD
Subjects: lifeSkills,sel,pragmatics,speakingListening
Grades: 9,10,11,12
Description
Practice identifying sarcastic vs. serious messages through realistic text-message conversations. This deck uses everyday situations that teens may experience at school, with friends, at the mall, during family activities, parties, sports, trips, shopping, homework, and other common high-school situations. Students read each text-message exchange and decide whether the target response is sarcastic or serious. The conversations include realistic wording, casual texting language, and occasional emojis to help the scenarios feel age-appropriate and relatable. This resource targets skills such as understanding sarcasm, interpreting nonliteral language, social communication, perspective taking, and making social inferences.
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