Help students build meaningful social interaction skills with this comprehensive set of social emotional learning activities for autism, designed to support functional IEP goals, small-group instruction, and consistent progress monitoring. This resource includes 16 targeted social interaction goals with clearly written objectives, teaching guidance, examples/non-examples, and data collection tools to support kindergarten through early elementary learners.

These kindergarten social emotional lessons and social skills small group activities are ideal for teaching real-world skills like initiating interactions, greetings, sharing, flexible thinking, basic conversation, thinking about others, whole body listening, and more. Every goal is written in clear, observable language and aligned for ABA, special education, and IEP teams.

⭐ What’s Included
330 pages of stimuli & teaching materials
• Visuals, scenarios, and practice materials for social skills instruction
• Activities for small group, whole group, and individual instruction
• Supports for generalization across peers, settings, and routines

190-page IEP Goals & Objectives PDF
• 15 functional social interaction IEP goals
• Measurable objectives with clear mastery criteria
• Teacher tips and instructional guidance
• Examples and non-examples (short and long versions)
• Ready-to-use progress monitoring language

📊 IEP Progress Monitoring & Data Collection
• Supports IEP goal tracker and progress reporting
• Clear criteria for independence, prompts, and mastery
• Works with ABA data systems and classroom data collection
• Ideal for IEP progress monitoring data sheets and team consistency

🧠 Skills Covered
• Initiating interactions & greetings social stories
• Playing with friends & sharing
• Basic conversations and asking questions
• Thinking about others & perspective-taking
• Flexible thinking social story concepts
• Whole body listening during group instruction
• Sportsmanship, conflict resolution, and participation

🧠 Who This Resource Is For
• Special education teachers
• School-based BCBAs and behavior specialists
• Speech-language pathologists
• Autism support classrooms
• Social skills small group instruction
• Kindergarten and early elementary teams

🧩 How You Can Use It
• Social skills small groups
• Kindergarten social emotional lessons
• IEP instruction and progress monitoring
• ABA therapy and push-in services
• Team collaboration and shared goal tracking

💡 Why Teachers Love This Social Skills Resource

• Combines SEL instruction + functional IEP goals + data in one place
• Saves time writing and rewriting social interaction goals
• Supports consistent language across staff and settings
• Makes social skills instruction measurable and meaningful

Use in conjunction with your ABLLS-R® assessment available at https://assessments.centralreach.com/

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