By: Suzanne Garlick

Autism Class

Description of Class

1st thru 3rd grade autistic students

Gender of class is 100% boys
60% Hispanic and 40% Caucasian
All students in class have IEPs
The class age is 6 to 9 year olds
This portion of the day is a small group, self contain
class for social skills and behavior

Objectives

Content:
The students will list and discuss the attributes of a
good friend. They will identify three good things to
do with a friend and three things not to do.

Language:
SWBAT write and verbally explain their favorite
activities they enjoy doing with a friend. They will
discuss and express how their actions can effect their
relationship with others.

Nevada Academic Content

Standard and IEP Goals

Reading Standards for Literature 1st grade

Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate
understanding of their central message or lesson.

IEP goal to increase students social skills through

teacher directed instruction and interaction with
peers.

Lesson

Engage the student by asking a driving question about

yesterdays lesson.
Yesterday, we read the book A Visitor for Bear by Bonny
Becker.
Was bear a good friend when the story began?
Was mouse a good friend?
What happened in the story that changed how bear felt
about mouse?

Today we are going to continue our lesson on friendship

and discuss different kinds of friends and good things we
can do with our friends.

Books on Friendship

Read-A Book of Friends by

Dave Ross

While reading the book discuss attributes of friends

that the author shares in the book.
Ask the students to share real world experiences that
they have had with friends.
Make connections throughout the text while reading.
Ask each student to share their favorite part of the
book and what they think the author is trying to tell
us.

White Board Discussion

Review yesterdays lesson on building a friend.

Ask the students if they can relate any of the items that
we listed on the build a friend chart with the book
we read today?
Review the different things we discussed yesterday that
we can do with a friend relating to our heads, hands and
feet.

White Board Discussion

Continued

List on board things the students like to do with

friends.
Discuss variety of positive activities that can be done
outside, inside, alone and in various different places.

List things that you should not do with your friends.

Do not dwell to long on the negative but list a few
things such as: hitting, name calling, and bullying.

Bubble chart

Draw the bubble chart on the board and model how

to fill in the blanks.
Draw a picture of the student in the middle of the
chart.
On the right side list things that they like to do with a
friend.
On the left side things they do not do with a friend.
Mark through these thing with a red slash.

Build a Friend/Bubble Chart

Presentation

When students are done creating their bubble chart

they will share their chart with the class.
Students will show their listening and presenting skills
individually.
Students will explain the importance of the activities
they picked.
We will then discuss why it is important not to do
certain bad things to friends.
They will tell how the activities can effect their
relationship both good and bad.

Accommodations

Redirection with a positive tone will be used to help

the students stay focused during the lesson.
I will model and scaffold how to create their bubble
chart before having the students create their own.
If needed I will assist the students with spelling
words.
We will work as a group to make the friendship list
of positive and negative attributes.

Assessment

I will assess the students informally during our

group discussions before, during and after our
reading of the book of the day and throughout the
lesson.
I will assess the students formally using their
completed bubble chart and their verbal presentation
of their chart to the class.