Bullying Prevention

About this resource

Kind words feel good. Unkind ones hurt. This is a short picture story a student can turn like a book, pages to circle kind or unkind, and a set of picture cards that show what a student can do: say stop, use a strong voice, walk away, tell a grown-up they trust. It comes with a page where the student writes who they can tell, and the log that writes down what happened, so the lesson does not stay a nice idea on a shelf. Made for grades 1-4.

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 34 pages

• An 8-page picture story: one big picture and one short sentence on each page, a "My name" line and one instruction at the top of every page. A student meets something unkind, says "Stop. I do not like that.", walks away and tells a grown-up they trust
• The whole story on one black-and-white page, for the photocopier
• 2 "Kind or Unkind?" pages: 16 pictured actions (ask someone to play, share the markers, call someone a name, leave someone out and more); the student circles kind or unkind
• "My Kind Words and Kind Actions": the student draws and writes a kind thing to say and a kind thing to do
• 8 speak up cards in full color, cut apart 4 across and 2 down so each cut is one straight line: say stop, strong voice, walk away, tell a teacher, ask to play, kind words, be a friend, slow breath. Each has a picture, a word and a short line in the student's voice
• The same 8 speak up cards in black-and-white ink-saver
• 8 blank cards: the student draws a picture and writes the words on type-in lines
• My Trusted Grown-Ups: the student writes who they can tell at school, at home and somewhere else, and where to find them
• My Speak Up Plan: the student picks three cards and draws or writes them in order
• A how-to page with the kind-or-unkind answers for the teacher
• A Speak Up Practice Log (20 rows: date, what happened in your words, card used, told a trusted adult, initials)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks) with a percent graph
• A filled example: an invented student, one week on the log, three weeks on the roll-up and the cards used across all three
• A family page with six small cards to cut apart and a note home
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional or another classroom uses the same cards the same way, with a blank line for your school's own reporting steps
• A phrase bank: 23 lines in 6 groups (spoken lines for the story and the cards, written starters for the log, the roll-up and the note home)
• A storage and binder label sheet: 12 labels and a spine strip
• Start Here, a contents page, and a "what's next" back page

The Speak Up Cards

Eight pictured cards the student can pick from. Keep them in a pocket, on a ring or at the desk. Use a blank card for any idea that is not printed here.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the name lines, the log, the roll-up, the trusted grown-ups page, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

Who This Is For

Teachers and paraprofessionals in grades 1-4 and special education classrooms who want a calm, concrete picture lesson on kind and unkind words and actions, case managers who need it to show up as data, and the families who get the home page.

More In The Collection

This set is in the Visual Supports Collection, alongside Social Stories: When Someone Is Unkind, Social Stories: Using Kind Words and Actions, Tattling vs. Telling Picture Cards and Social Story and Stop-Think-Act Impulse Control Picture Cards and Log. Free to try first: Visual Supports Starter Set FREE.

Pictures (color pages): Noto Emoji by Google, Apache License 2.0. Pictures (ink-saver pages): Fluent Emoji, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, MIT License.