Social Stories

An Introduction

How to Write Social Stories

Perspective sentences describe the internal

Write a social story from the perspective of

the person. Create a word picture what they would see and experience.
Use a combination of different types of

state of other people. These type of sentences provide information about thoughts, feelings, and/or the mood of other people. Many children with autism do not know about internal feelings.
Directive sentences provide information

sentences, following the recommended ratio: Descriptive, Perspective, Directive.

Descriptive sentences provide information

about what the student should do to be successful in the target situation.

The recommended formula for writing social

about specific social settings or situations, i.e. give cues to what the person sees, who is involved, and what happens.

stories based on Carol Gray's opinion is two to five descriptive sentences for each directive sentence, which may include perspective sentences.