“Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore!” Learning social skills can feel like the journey to the Emerald City. Join Dorothy and her friends on the yellow brick road and practice a variety of social skills. Yellow Brick Road Social Skills is a packet for social skills in children preschool-middle school. 
Although The Wizard of Oz, is a familiar story for us, many of my student’s weren’t familiar it. 
I got this version of the story to read with my students from Amazon. It’s not exactly the same (silver slippers!?), but combined with YouTube clips, it gave my students enough schema about the story to make the unit meaningful. 
I made the packet really broad so that I can adapt it and make it work for most of my caseload. 
I included a parent letter, encouraging carryover and support. 
Use this reference poster in your room to refer to the skills discussed during other activities. 
YouTube links for short clips associated with the activities in the packet are included. 
Good witch/wicked witch: 27 cards, homework sheet, sorting mats, blanks. Rate statements as kind or unkind and then sort them onto the appropriate picture of Glinda the Good Witch or the Wicked Witch of the West. 
Cowardly Lion: 36 cards, 9 special cards, sorting mats, homework page. “Expected”/”Unexpected” behaviors. Read each scene and behavior. Determine if that behavior is expected or unexpected for that scenario. 
Dorothy Perspective Taking: 27 cards, 9 special cards, student mat, homework page. Read the scenes and statements then determine what other people might perceive from the experience. 
Tin Man: Be Flexible: 27 cards, sorting mats, 9 special cards, homework sheet. Think about compromise or stepping into uncomfortable situations. 
Scarecrow Sarcasm: 36 cards, 9 special cards, sorting mats: Identify sentences as sarcastic or not. 
Emerald City: 27 cards, 9 special cards, game board. Skills with friends game, just add game markers. 
Toto Conversation Starters: 18 conversation starters related to the story. Blank cards are included throughout each activity. You can find this activity in my TPT store. Please leave feedback if you grab it! I’ll send a freebie version to the first three people to leave a comment below! Thanks!
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This look so AMAZING!!!! What a nice job you did tying it all together 🙂
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I love your ideas! Can’t wait to use this!
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Bought it!! Can’t wait to use it!
This is amazing! I would definitely be able to use this with a wide range of ages and skills. It’s hard to find comprehensive social skills activities so this is exciting!
Jenna! Wow, this is adorable and what a fun way to teach social skills. Who doesn’t love the Wizard of Oz! Thank you for sharing!
Great idea! You are so creative!
You do such fabulous work. Where do you get your graphics from? I love them!
this set is jessica weibel designs
Oh my gosh! I want this! It is on my wishlist. Thanks so much!
This is so cute, creative, and a wonderful therapy tool! Great job!
So cute. I work with a large ASD population and hope to see more pragmatics materials like this. Thanks!
Hi! I absolutely LOVE your materials! I think I have almost all of them. 🙂 I just bought Yellow Brick Road Social Skills and it looks awesome! For some reason (I’m really tired so it doesn’t make sense to me 😉 I started proofreading it and I noticed a few errors. I wanted to let you know, in case you can still change it on TPT. 🙂
Lion pictures: “You sit down so close to YOUR him that you’re touching.”
Dorothy pictures: 2 times it says, “What will people THIN?”
Scarecrow: Identifying Sarcasm (explanation page)
*YOU brother (instead of “your brother”)
Thanks so much for all your hard work! My students enjoy your materials, and so do I. 🙂
Ack! HI Dayna. I think I didn’t upload the latest version to TPT. I have several versions saved to my computer since I have people edit the thing for me. I updated it with my most recent version so I THINK it’s correct now. You can re-download it with the updated version if you go to MY PURCHASES on TPT. Let me know if you don’t get that option.
THANKS
Got it! Thanks again. 🙂
I was looking at the Jessica Weible website and the graphics are so cute and affordable. My question for you is- did you have to pay the extra $20 because you didn’t want to have to give credit on your products? If you were to write “Graphics by Jessica Weible” on the bottom of your cover page would you still have to pay the extra fee? I want to use graphics like this, but I get bogged down in the legality of it all!
Love all your ideas!
I love it! I am so excited to have this to use with my middle school students!!
This is so cute!
Wonderful! Now I just need to purchase a new printer so I can start using these! 🙂
I am very excited to get this packet! This will be perfect to use right after Holiday Break to get my students motivated! Thanks!
Wow, lots of hard work went into this! Great!
On the question concerning the silver verses ruby red slippers – in the original book, her slippers are silver. In the movie, they changed the slippers to red to make them stand out more! Just a bit of fun trivia! There are a few other differences between the book and the movie.
This looks great – would love to have it!
This is just what I need!
This looks amazing!!! I love finding new social skills games, you rock!
I am using this in my social skills class right now and the kids are sooo excited. I have students from 2nd to 6th grade who are excited about this unit. Thank you so much!!
I would love to use this!
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Hi Rosemary, you can follow the links above to purchase it in my TpT shop.