Secondary School

Support children and young people to deal with social situations and understand the meaning behind words and actions


This resource has been designed to improve children and young people's social skills by asking them to consider a situation or action and decide what response would be the most appropriate from the choices provided. Once the young person has agreed the response to the situation they cover over the situation with the response and go onto the next one.


There are four different...

Activities to develop social skills in a practical and fun way

By Naomi Samuel




Give children of all ages and abilities the opportunity to build up a toolbox of social skills for life with these session plans based around tried-and-tested activities. This will enable them to have the best opportunity to understand who they are and their impact on the world, as well as identifying how the world impacts on them as an individual. It gives room for reflection and practical skills for working...

By Michelle Garcia Winner and Linda K. MurphyWhether you're new to Social Thinking or a veteran in using our materials, Social Thinking and Me is the perfect tool to introduce and teach core Social Thinking Vocabulary and concepts to older primary school and middle/secondary school-age kids (ages 9-14).This two-book set breaks larger and more complicated social concepts down into smaller chunks to make it easier for adults to teach and easier for kids to learn. What's Great About This Two-Book...

Learning to Read in Between the Social Lines. This book provides a new set of worksheets; adding to the worksheet resources we have provided through our first book, Thinksheets 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...

by Michelle Garcia Winner and Pamela Crooke This anime-illustrated guidebook is written for teens and young adults to learn how the social mind is expected to work in order to effectively relate to others at school, at work, in the community and even at home. Since there is relatively little information on how to talk about social information, this book redefines what it means to "be social" and it is likely not what you think! This book is a "get real" discussion, written in...

Practical Strategies to Encourage Social Thinking and Organization by Michelle Garcia Winner By providing a CD and book now you can print as many strategies as you want onto standard labels and flipbooks and save the formatted stickers in Word for your student. You can still print from formatted strategies in the included book. A popular tool, the previous book included actual stickers, making it expensive to print. This CD/book package is half the first version's price and more versatile! While...

By Lindy Petersen with Mark LeMessurier STOP THINK DO is a social skills programme for use in schools with children who have emotional–social–behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends. It is designed as a classroom curriculum for children to prevent such difficulties arising. Originally designed for Australian schools, it is now internationally recognised as an invaluable social skills programme and is being used by many schools and CPD groups around the world. STOP...

By Lindy Petersen Stop and Think Learning offers teachers a step-by-step method called STOP THINK DO to motivate children to learn in the classroom. The highly successful method shows children what they can change and then how they can plan what to do to change. Motivation is the key: here is a set of strategies that actively involve the children in a commitment to learn in the busy classroom. The book also describes the STOP THINK DO method for training social skills and improving relationships...

By Lindy Petersen with Phil Lewis STOP THINK DO is a social skills programme for use in schools with children who have emotional–social–behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends. It is designed as a classroom curriculum for children to prevent such difficulties arising. Originally designed for Australian schools, it is now internationally recognised as an invaluable social skills programme and is being used by many schools and CPD groups around the world. STOP THINK DO...

By Lindy Petersen with Allyson Adderley STOP THINK DO is a social skills programme for use in schools with children who have emotional–social–behavioural difficulties that affect their ability to make friends. It is designed as a classroom curriculum for children to prevent such difficulties arising. Originally designed for Australian schools, it is now internationally recognised as an invaluable social skills programme and is being used by many schools and CPD groups around the world. STOP...

Written by Michelle Garcia Winner and the Superflex Creative Team Superflex and Focus Tron to the Rescue! introduces readers to the Thinkable Focus Tron. Wherever they are — at school, or home, in the community — Focus Tron helps Social Town citizens remember to use their focusing powers to stay connected to what they’re doing or what others are talking about. In the story, Sarah periodically get visits from the Unthinkable Brain Eater who distracts her thoughts away from her classwork,...

Written by Michelle Garcia Winner and the Superflex Creative Team Superflex and Kool Q. Cumber to the Rescue! introduces readers to the Thinkable Kool Q. Cumber (we call him Kool, for short!). Kool helps Social Town citizens stay calm when problems happen, and use strategies they learn to figure out the size of a problem and the expected reaction size. In the story, Aiden and his classmates present science projects, but Aiden’s friend Sam becomes frustrated with problems throughout the day. As...

By Michelle Garcia Winner This Superflex poster colourfully shows the full Team of Unthinkables - from Mean Jean to Energy Hare-y - and how they try to take on Superflex. Superflex always remains in the centre, flexing his superior strengths and reminding us to use our flexible thinking to overcome those Unthinkables wherever they lurk! The poster serves as a visual reminder and steady reinforcer for your lessons and is perfect for the classroom, the bedroom - anywhere flexible thinking is...

Superflex Superdecks are card games created to invoke your own superflexible thinking as you teach students to be more superflexible social thinkers. The game pack is a companion teaching tool to the popular Superflex Curriculum, which helps parents and professionals teach children ages 8-11 about social thinking, social regulation, and social problem solving. The Superdecks are not an introduction to Superflex, and should only be used with students who are already familiar with the concept of...

Written by Michelle Garcia Winner and Stephanie Madrigal Illustrated by Kyle Richardson Superflex Takes on One-Sided Sid, Un-Wonderer and the Team of Unthinkables is the fourth comic book in the Superflex series, designed to help children learn more about their own social behaviour and strategies to regulate it. Individuals should already be familiar with the Superflex Curriculum before reading this book. In this newest comic, children become familiar with several ways to squash the powers of...

by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner Comic Book by Stephanie MadrigalIllustrated by Kelly Knopp Superflex®: A Superhero Social Thinking Curriculum introduces Superflex, a social thinking superhero who helps the citizens of Social Town outsmart the Team of Unthinkables and diminish their powers to distract, disengage, and otherwise detour children in their efforts to think about others and use their social thinking abilities. Fun worksheets motivate students to learn more about how...

Written by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner Illustrated by Kyle Richardson Superflex® takes on Brain Eater focuses on one of the social cognitive challenges we see most often in our students, distractibility, with strategies on how to stay on track with every day activities like getting ready for school and listening in class! This engaging comic book is the third in our Superflex series designed to help children learn more about their own social behaviour and strategies to regulate...

Written by Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner Illustrated by Kelly Knopp In Superflex® Takes on Glassman and the Team of Unthinkables, our Super Social Thinker swoops down to help Aiden overcome the Unthinkable, Glassman (who causes our over-reactions to small things) at just the right time: the first day of school! Superflex, the caped cognitive specialist, shows primary school students how they can use strategies to conquer their own "Team of Unthinkables," like Glassman...

By Stephanie Madrigal and Michelle Garcia Winner Superflex's Very Cool Five-Step Power Plan poster is a visual tool for those who are teaching Superflex curriculum concepts at a deeper level with 8-10 year olds. The Five-Step Power Plan is a teaching strategy that helps students strengthen their superflexible thinking and gain more independence in their social problem-solving abilities. As students work through the five steps they: Identify which Unthinkable is invading their brain. Observe the...

by Frances HillGifted and talented individuals possess the attributes and abilities to enrich their own lives and to make a valuable contribution to the knowledge society. This potential can be maximised by the provision of a tailored education which provides the scope and balance which gifted students crave. The perception that gifted students will achieve, regardless of the educational provision, because of their innate abilities, still lingers. International research, however, points to the...