Friendship Skills Cue Cards and Log

About this resource

EVERYTHING INSIDE — 21 pages, 232 type-in fields

• 12 friendship-skill cue cards, twice: a full-color set and a black-and-white ink-saver set for the photocopier — Wave Hello, Shake Hands, Smile at a Friend, Listen, Wait Your Turn, Ask to Join, Join In, Cheer for a Friend, Give a Thumbs Up, Play Together, Read Together, Play a Game
• A one-page quick-reference chart with all twelve pictures and words at a glance, for a wall, a clipboard or a lesson plan — not a cutting page
• 12 blank cue cards with a type-in word line, for any skill the set does not cover
• A how-to page: which cards to start with, using a card in the moment, writing down what changes, what the file is and is not, sending it home, handing it off — and the two friendship words (sharing, saying something kind) this file has no honest picture for
• 8 practice scenarios: an everyday moment, the card that fits it, a short line to say, and a line to write when it was tried
• A Friendship Skills Log (16 rows: date, setting, skill card used, independent or not, help given in your own words, initials)
• A weekly roll-up (8 weeks: times observed, independent, percent, skill used most, notes) with a percent-independent graph
• A filled example — an invented student, one day on the log and three weeks on the roll-up, every percent re-counted from its own row
• A family page: six of the twelve cards on one sheet plus a week of home tracking
• A hand-off page so a paraprofessional or another classroom uses the same cards the same way
• A phrase bank: what to say when a card is shown and what to write on the log, the roll-up, the family page and the hand-off page, in 6 groups
• A storage and binder label sheet, and a spine strip
• Start Here, a contents page with page thumbnails, and a "what's next" back page

Twelve concrete friendship actions, each its own cue card, pulled out and pointed to in the moment a skill is needed — plus the log, roll-up and phrase bank that turn "used it" into a line a case manager can bring to a meeting.

Not The Same As The Social Story

This store also sells Social Story: Being a Good Friend, four short stories a student reads start to finish. This is a different shape: twelve separate cue cards, usable on their own with no story required, meant to be pulled out in the moment. A team using both can teach a scenario with the story, then keep these cards as the daily pointer and data sheet.

Why Two Friendship Words Have No Card

Sharing and saying something kind are real friendship skills with no single honest picture: no drawing shows the act of sharing without reading as the object handed over instead, and a speech-bubble picture is a communication symbol, not a concrete action. Rather than force a picture that reads as the wrong word, both live in the phrase bank and the how-to page as words to say, not as cards — the same fix used on the log and roll-up: only what a picture can honestly show becomes a card.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

It is a fillable PDF: type into the practice page, the log, the roll-up, the family page, the hand-off page and the blank cards, or print and use a pen. The card pages print on cardstock or plain paper; cards cut along dashed lines. It works offline with no account or subscription. It is NOT an editable online slideshow or word-processor document.

It cues a student toward one concrete friendship action at a time and counts what happened. It is not a social skills program, a behavior plan or a script, and it promises no outcome. It carries no prompt hierarchy, fading schedule or mastery rule; which cards a student needs, and for how long, is your team's decision. The goal line and the criterion field are blanks for your district's own wording and your team's own number.

Who This Is For

Special education teachers and paraprofessionals who cue a friendship skill in the moment it is needed, general education teachers who want a quick visual for a whole-class friendship lesson, case managers who need that use to show up as data, and the families who get the home page sent home.

More In The Collection

Part of the Visual Supports Collection, alongside Social Story: Being a Good Friend, First Then Board and Activity Picture Cards, and Calm-Down Choice Cards for Special Education; more picture sets are being added to the collection regularly, all on the same pictures-plus-data shape.

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