Real-World Social Skills Workbooks

The Real-World Social Skills Workbooks utilize evidence-based methods to help students build CASEL skills in the areas of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. With direct, explicit instruction, these high-interest, life-skills lessons tackle relevant topics in a light-hearted, easy-reading style that readers will love. Reluctant readers will appreciate the engaging illustrations that reinforce the text. In each chapter, teens and “experts” offer helpful advice with text messages, reinforcing each lesson in a fun, casual, and non-threatening way. Each story has between 358 and 488 words, and reading levels for each story are noted in the Table of Contents. Words to know for each story are listed on the Vocabulary page of each workbook. Follow-up questions to each lesson challenge students to apply the lesson to their real life while also improving essential reading comprehension skills. All questions are standards-based & labeled: compare & contrast, use context clues, draw conclusions, cause & effect, determine author’s viewpoint, analyze, evaluate, & apply, etc. A Skills Chart in each workbook indicates which of the 18 standards are addressed in each story. All workbooks are reproducible for classroom use and have answer keys in the back.

Choose from the following workbooks or order all 3 as a set:

Improving Relationships: In 14 helpful lessons, students will learn concepts such as eye contact, the value of first impressions, how to deal with bullying, managing their temper, awkwardness, apologizing, tone of voice, and much more. Two pages of follow-up questions reinforce the lessons. The first page asks skill-based questions that are labeled to show which standard is being met. Students answer the questions in complete sentences. The second activity page is optional and is not meant to be graded, but is to help students become more self-aware.

Social Behavior: In this volume, readers learn 14 strategy lessons on improving social skills such as communication, relationship building, courtesy, and more. Two pages of follow-up questions reinforce the lessons. The first page asks skill-based questions that are labeled to show which standard is being met. Students answer the questions in complete sentences. The second activity page is optional and is not meant to be graded, but is to help students become more self-aware.

Social Media: Navigating social media in a healthy way can be difficult for many students-- and this volume of the Real-World Skills series is designed to help! In Real-World Skills: Social Media, readers will learn vital tips for navigating their digital world while keeping safe, maintaining boundaries, and caring for their mental health. Each of the 13 stories in this book covers lessons such as privacy, not comparing yourself to others, fact checking news and information, resisting peer pressure, what to post and what not to post, and much more. The follow-up questions include 5 questions focusing on locating information and 5 questions focusing on comprehension skills that are labeled by standard.

Reading Level: Grades 3-4
Interest Level: Grades 6-12
Ages: 11-18