Behavior Intervention for
PreK Students:
Creating Stories That
Teach Replacement
Behaviors
“Scripted picture stories are but
a strategy for your intervention
tool chest.”
• Use them as part of your
Positive Behavior Support model
• Be systematic - start with
assessment to see what the child
needs to learn and end with
assessment to see if they learned it!
First comes the functional
assessment ..
• May choose a scripted
picture story for a skill
deficit
– To teach the skill
components
– To improve the
skill, teach
missing
components
• May choose a scripted
picture story for a
performance deficit
– To help with
transitions
– To prime the
behavior
– For mental
practice
(visualization)
Progress monitoring
Skill Rating Form
Name ______________Teacher or Parent ___________
Directions: Based on your observations, rate the student’s
use of the following skill(s) according to the scale below:
1 = never uses the skill
2 = rarely uses the skill
3 = sometimes uses the skill
4 = often uses the skill
5 = almost always uses the skill
Skill –
Date
Date
Date
Date
Progress monitoring
Skill Rating Form
Name ______________Teacher or Parent ___________
Directions: Based on your observations, rate the student’s
use of the following skill(s) according to the scale below:
1 = never uses the skill
2 = rarely uses the skill
3 = sometimes uses the skill
4 = often uses the skill
5 = almost always uses the skill
Skill – Expresses
Date
anger in a safe way tears paper, stamps
on paper, or reads
special books
Date
Date
Date
Scripted picture stories can be one of
your antecedent modifications or
interventions in a behavior support plan
• The scripted story gives knowledge of
what we want him to do (knowing),
teaches what we want him or her to know.
• Then practice gives the knowledge of
what we want her to do (doing).
Implementation and Fidelity
• Implementation suggestions
– When, where, how to read the story
– Avoid pitfall – not as a consequence or
you end up pairing it with correction 
– Comparison to baseline
(Maintain? Modify? Intensify? Withdraw?)
• Fidelity Assessment
– Sticker page
– Data sheet
– Interview with 4 basic questions
Behavior Support Plan Assessment (UNO Pam project)
Student:
Teacher:
Date:
To what level was the plan implemented as proposed?
Low
1
Comments:
2
Moderate
3
High
5
4
To what degree is the plan having a positive impact on the
student’s BEHAVIOR?
Low
1
Comments:
2
Moderate
3
4
High
5
To what degree is the plan having a positive impact on the
student’s ACADEMICS?
Low
1
Comments:
2
Moderate
3
4
High
5
Behavior Support Plan Assessment
Student:
Teacher:
(UNO Pam project)
Date:
To what level was the plan implemented as proposed?
Low
Moderate
High
1
2
3
4
5
Comments: He liked the social story and parents also read it at home. He
sometimes refuses to practice – can’t get his attention.
To what degree is the plan having a positive impact on the
student’s BEHAVIOR?
Low
Moderate
High
1
2
3
4
5
Comments: He has tended to use the stamps on paper when angry more than
the other things. He has not once hugged the bear when he’s upset.
To what degree is the plan having a positive impact on the
student’s ACADEMICS?
Low
Moderate
High
1
2
3
4
5
Comments: Stays in inclusion more because no one gets hurt when he stamps.
Resources for scripted picture stories
• Cefel
• JED BAKER http://jedbaker.com
• The Social Skills Picture Book
•• $40, includes CD
CAROL GRAY
http://www.thegraycenter.org
• POLYXO
• http://www.Polyxo.com/socialstories
Two examples follow this slide
1. ACCEPTING “NO” FOR AN ANSWER
From The Social Skills Picture Book
by Jed Baker
2. MY TEACHER TALKS TO MANY PEOPLE
From the POLYXO website
My Teacher Talks to Many People [ by M.Gardner ]
My teacher talks a lot.
Sometimes she talks to me.
She gives me directions and helps me with my work.
Sometimes she talks to other people.
She might talk to other children about their work.
She might talk to another adult.
It is okay when she talks to other people.
When my teacher talks to other people I can keep
working or playing.
This will make my teacher happy.
I will try to keep working or playing when my
teacher talks to other people.
Website with free, downloadable
scripted stories for teaching behaviors
your young students may need to learn
CSEFEL
Center on the Social and Emotional
Foundations for Early Learning
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/csefel/
practicalstrategies