Help students build empathy, perspective-taking, and kind social responses with this comprehensive thinking about others resource. Designed for early learners, this set combines social stories empathy, social stories about emotions, and interactive SEL practice to help students notice others’ feelings, wants, and needs and respond thoughtfully. Ideal for kindergarten social emotional lessons, social skills groups, and social emotional learning activities autism.

Using the simple CARE framework (Check the situation, Ask or notice how others feel, Respond kindly, Engage with others), students learn how to stay connected, flexible, and kind during everyday social situations. This resource pairs well with a flexible thinking social story to support consistent and effective SEL instruction across settings.

⭐ What’s Included

Digital Versions (Boom™ Cards, Google™ Slides, Easel™, YouTube™)

• Two social stories about thinking about others (simple and more descriptive versions)
• Interactive social scenario activities
• Emotion identification practice using real-life images
• CARE-based decision-making and discussion prompts

⭐ 165-Page Printable PDF

Teacher & Therapy Tools

• Tips for teachers
• IEP goals and measurable objectives
• Data collection pages
• Small-group social lesson plan with activities, visuals, and data tracking

Differentiated Social Stories

• Two versions (simple rhyming and more verbal)
• Full-color versions
• Black-and-white versions
• Mini-book versions for individual practice or take-home

Each story supports empathy, emotional awareness, and perspective-taking using the CARE framework.

Behavior & SEL Activities

• 2 token boards
• “CARE Club” printable badges
• “What Would You Say?” conversation activities (2 pages with 4 scenarios each)
• CARE-based discussion and reflection prompts

Sequencing & Academic Activities

• 4 five-step sequencing stories (cut-and-paste)
• Matching mini reading versions of the same stories
• Match, trace, write, and spell the word care
• Simple counting pages
• 5 coloring pages

Communication & Language Supports

• “My CARE Mat” Boardmaker communication board
• 4 pages of Boardmaker symbols for language modeling, prompting, and expressive support

Perfect For

• Teaching social stories empathy and perspective-taking
• Supporting social stories about emotions
• Kindergarten social emotional lessons
• Autism classrooms and social emotional learning activities autism
• Social skills groups, counseling, and SEL stations
• ABA therapy, speech therapy, and special education
• Pairing with a flexible thinking social story for consistent SEL instruction

✎ Don’t miss these resources for for data collection ideas
✔️ Preschool IEP Goal Bank (bestselling item!)
✔️ Behavior Goals bundle
✔️ Visual Skills bundle
✔️ Group Instruction goals
✔️ FBA template bundle

❗ This is a digital download product only. No physical media will be sent to you. Remember, please don’t share these links with anyone! Thanks for respecting my work!

⚠️  IMPORTANT You will get a PDF with a link to click to download the files from Dropbox. Files can only be downloaded from a computer (not a phone). If you do not see it immediately, check your “Downloads” folder. The file should download to it automatically. Email me at if you have any problems.

Find me here: Subscribe for freebies | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Email

✉ Please contact me via email audra@abainschool.com if you have a question about this resource or experience a problem.

For Boom™ products

To use Boom Cards, you must be connected to the Internet. Boom Cards play on modern browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge). Apps are available for modern Android, iPads, iPhones, and Kindle Fires. For security and privacy, adults must have an account to use and assign Boom Cards. You will be able to assign the Boom Cards you are buying with “Fast Pins,” (a form of play that gives instant feedback to students for self-grading Boom Cards). For assignment options that report student progress back to you, you will need to purchase a subscription. If you are new to Boom, you will be offered a free trial. Read here for details: http://bit.ly/BoomTrial.

For Google™ products

• You’ll need a Google account to access these resources. Your students will need accounts as well if you’re assigning activities.
• After clicking the link, select “Make a copy” to add the file to your Google Drive.
• If your school restricts access, use a personal Google account to access the file and share it with your school account.

⚠️️IMPORTANT  :   The purchase of this resource gives the buyer permission to download and copy for single classroom or family use only. Electronic distribution is also limited to single use. Copying for other parents, teachers, school-wide use, or for school systems is only allowed with the purchase of additional licenses. Contact me at audra@abainschool.com for additional licenses at a discounted rate. Thank you for respecting my work.

Copyright © ABA in School. All Rights Reserved.