RaMP Social Skills Collection | Dr. Jasmine Sadler

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Building Connections

76 pages • 8 complete lessons • Printable PDF

Foundational Social Skills, Taught as a Progression

Building Connections helps learners develop the foundational skills needed to notice, approach, respond to, and engage with others. Educators can teach the sequence as a progression or select individual lessons based on the learner’s current needs or IEP goals.

Each lesson includes explicit instruction, RaMP strategies, measurable IEP goals, Prompted → Independent → Generalized performance levels, guided practice, realistic scenarios, generalization opportunities, and progress monitoring.

Building Connections Skills

Greeting Others
Introducing Yourself
Listening
Starting Conversations
Maintaining Conversations
Ending Conversations
Joining a Group
Inviting Others to Join

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Choose a Specific Skill

Individual Building Connections Lessons

Start with the skill the learner needs now. Each lesson can be purchased individually.

BC-01

Greeting Others

Notice • Greet • Respond

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BC-02

Introducing Yourself

Greet • Share • Connect

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BC-03

Listening

Attend • Understand • Respond

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BC-04

Starting Conversations

Notice • Open • Connect

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BC-05

Maintaining Conversations

Listen • Add • Exchange

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BC-06

Ending Conversations

Notice • Close • Exit

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BC-07

Joining a Group

Observe • Approach • Join

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BC-08

Inviting Others to Join

Notice • Invite • Include

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Inside the Curriculum

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Building Connections scenario practice preview

Bonus Resource

5 Social Skills Icebreakers

A separate ready-to-use resource for getting groups talking, interacting, and practicing connection skills.

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Building Connections Companion

Social Skills in Action

Building Connections teaches the skill. Social Skills in Action gives learners more opportunities to use that same skill when people respond, circumstances change, and the next move is not scripted.

In Development

Learn It. Practice It. Apply It.

Social Skills in Action extends Building Connections through realistic situations, partner responses, changing information, new contexts, reflection, and transfer across people and settings.

It can be used as a companion to the original collection or independently when a learner already has enough instruction to begin application practice.

Designed Across Grade Bands

K–2, Grades 3–5, and Grades 6–12 versions place the same target skill into age-relevant social worlds while allowing support to be individualized.

Age determines the social world; individual need determines the support.

Social Skills in Action grades 3-5 preview

Social Skills in Action grades 6-12 preview

Individualized Instruction

Start Where the Learner Needs Support and Build Toward Independence

Learners do not need to complete every skill in order. Use baseline observation, current performance, existing goals, and meaningful opportunities to choose a starting point, then teach, practice, observe, measure, and generalize the skill while fading support as appropriate.

Teach

Use clear, observable skill definitions with explicit instruction and examples.

Use RaMP

Apply Reinforcement and Modeling with Prompting to support movement toward greater independence.

Practice

Use guided activities and realistic scenarios that can be adapted to the learner and setting.

Observe + Measure

Document Prompted, Independent, and Generalized performance.

Connect to Goals

Use measurable IEP goals and data collection tied directly to the skill being taught.

Generalize

Practice across meaningful people, places, activities, and situations.

The Curriculum Is Growing

Future Social Skills Collections

Each future collection will have its own instruction set and a corresponding Social Skills in Action companion so learners can move from direct teaching into realistic application.

In Development