Social Skills Sorting Worksheets

This blog post is about how you could use sorting to teach social skills. 

Teaching behavior expectations in the first few weeks of school are critical. If you don’t spend time doing it in the beginning, it will be something that you will have to address repeatedly throughout the year. If taught correctly, your students can self-regulate, giving you more instructional time. 

I wrote a blog post about how to reduce disruptive problems in your classroom. One of the suggestions is to get to know your students and explicitly teach routines and behavior expectations through role-playing and collaboration. 

These sorting worksheets can supplement what you teach and help students identify responsible behaviors during key events throughout their day. Each sort includes a vivid picture and a challenging question for early finishers. You can have students complete them with you or independently.

Good Choices and Poor Choices

At the start of the year, we review the good and poor choices we make in school. We usually read a text since storytelling can help students grasp concepts better. In the past, I’ve read No David, but recently used The Bad Seed by John Jory. Here’s a list of books that teaches lessons about behaviors.

Tattling and Reporting

Most students think they are helpful when they tattle, so I spend time teaching them the difference between tattling and reporting at the beginning of the year (and throughout).

Emotions 

This sort will help students read or see others’ emotions through facial expressions.

Preventing Germs 

Preventing the spread of germs has always been important. I’ve found that most students don’t know how germs are spread or what to do to prevent them. After a lesson on germs and practicing handwashing, we complete this sort together.

Bus Behaviors

Some students will be riding the bus for the first time or need a reminder on how to behave. This sort is perfect for them.

Cafeteria Behaviors 

This sort worksheet will help students learn what positive behaviors in the cafeteria look like and sound like.

Recess Behaviors

Ah, recess. It’s the most unstructured time of their day, so we review what responsible choices we should make.

Field Trip Behaviors

Field trips are a lot of fun but also really stressful! This sort will help students learn what responsible choices on field trips look and sound like.

Grab these social skills sort here. 

These sorts are printable and digital, so you can choose the format you want to use to share this information.

What are some strategies you use to teach behavior expectations in your classroom? Let me know in the comments section below. 

Happy Teaching,

Tee