Price: 225 points or $2.25 USD
Subjects: relationshipSkills,speech,socialAspectsOfCommunication,pragmatics,Special Autism
Grades: 5,6,7
Description: Help students understand the difference between a friend, classmate, and acquaintance with this Bundle! Many students with social communication challenges assume that everyone who is kind or smiles at them is a friend. Learning to recognize different types of relationships is an essential social skills, pragmatic language, and life skills concept that supports healthy friendships, self-advocacy, and appropriate social boundaries. This resource is an excellent foundation for any Social Skills Curriculum and is especially helpful before teaching conversation skills, expected vs. unexpected behaviors, perspective taking, and speech filter activities. Students practice using inference skills to evaluate real-life social situations and determine whether someone is a friend, classmate, or acquaintance. This bundle includes: 39-card BOOM™ Deck 6 instructional teaching cards 33 interactive multiple-choice cards (some include helpful hints) 27 real-life social scenarios that require students to identify the relationship type. BONUS 2-page printable with 10 additional scenarios where students decide whether the person is a friend, classmate, or acquaintance—perfect for homework, independent practice, centers, or progress monitoring. Perfect for: Speech Therapy Social Skills Groups Middle School Social Skills Special Education Autism Support Pragmatic Language Therapy Life Skills SEL Lessons School Counseling Resource Rooms