Printable: Getting Dressed Social Story Curriculum

Getting Dressed is an English social story organized around four stages: choosing clothes, putting on underclothes, adding outer clothes and putting on shoes. It also covers weather choices, asking an adult for help with fasteners or shoelaces, and changing clothes when they become dirty.

Publisher identified in the materials: Special Learning.

Material context: The story assumes clothing tags are at the back and includes a gender-specific underwear example, so its examples may not fit every learner's clothing or routine.

The story discusses matching an outfit, choosing short or long sleeves for the weather, and placing clothing tags at the back. Buttons, zippers and shoe tying are described as points where the narrator can ask an adult for help.

A companion reference repeats the dressing sequence, and the general instructional guide describes story reading, coloring and page-order activities, role play, reinforcement and maintenance.

What is inside this resource?

• Four-stage dressing sequence
• Matching outfits and choosing clothes for warm or cold weather
• Adult-help examples for buttons, zippers and shoelaces
• Changing dirty clothes
• Repeated story reference and general activity guide

Material details: 4 PDF files, containing 83 pages in total including front matter. This is a digital download; purchase does not include printed copies.

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