Free printable · Preschool to Grade 2
Free trick-or-treating social story with pictures, in English and Spanish
My Story About Trick-or-Treating is a first-person social story: one sentence and one picture on each panel, to print or to read on a phone or tablet. It tells what happens (a costume, walking with a grown-up, knocking, saying trick or treat and thank you) and that it's okay to feel nervous, with one gentle step to try: tell a grown-up, skip a house or go home. A teacher page names each sentence's type. English and Spanish.
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Ask for a social story about another situation (a haircut, the doctor, a birthday party, Thanksgiving dinner, visitors at home), and SCAFLI makes it with a teacher page.
Try asking for:
- “a social story about Thanksgiving dinner”
- “a social story about going to a birthday party”
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What it is
A social story written to Carol Gray's format: first person, positive, mostly describing what happens, with one gentle coaching sentence. For young children, autistic children and anyone who finds a first Halloween noisy or new.
How to use it
- Read it a few days before Halloween, then again that afternoon.
- Read it as written, and let the child point to each picture.
- Practice the steps at a door at home.
Three quick tips
- Agree on how your child will say I'm done before you go.
- Waving and holding out the bag counts as trick-or-treating.
- Read it again afterward and talk about what happened.
Questions
- What age is it for?
- Preschool to second grade. Kindergarten and first grade get a shorter six-panel version.
- Is there a Spanish version?
- Yes. The free PDF has the story and the teacher page in English and in Spanish.
- What makes it a social story?
- It is in first person, one idea and one picture a panel, mostly describes what happens, and coaches gently (I will try to…), following Carol Gray's Social Stories format.
- Can I use it on a screen?
- Yes. It plays on a phone or tablet one page at a time, and can read each page aloud, in English or Spanish.
- Can I use it on a screen?
- Yes. It plays on a phone or tablet one page at a time and can read each page aloud, in English or Spanish.
- Is there a trick-or-treat picture book too?
- Yes. Trick-or-Treat, My Way is a picture book in the SCAFLI book library.
A starting point for your own professional judgment. Use initials only on any page about a student.