🔊 Sovelo Stories · Loud & unexpected
The Fire Alarm
A very loud alarm might ring at school, and I can be ready.. Read it together, at your pace. Every page is written in your child's voice.
1. Sometimes at school, the fire alarm rings. It is a practice to keep everyone safe.
2. The alarm is very loud. It can be sudden. Lights might flash too.
A loud BRRRING or beeping, flashing lights, everyone standing up at once.
3. Loud alarms can hurt my ears and startle my body. My heart might jump. That is my body being alert. It is okay.
A jumpy heart, buzzing ears, a startled body.
4. I can protect my ears and my calm.
cover my ears use my headphones squeeze my hands together stay close to my teacher ask an adult for help
5. My job is simple: walk with my class to our outside spot. My teacher knows the way. I can follow the line.
6. Outside, the alarm is quieter. We wait together. Then someone says it is done.
7. The alarm always stops. We go back inside. The quiet comes back, and so does my regular day.
take slow breaths take a break when we are back inside tell my teacher if I am still jumpy
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Sovelo Stories are original social narratives, written for neurodivergent kids and reviewed against strict guardrails: no eye-contact training, no masking, no mind-reading — and "no" is always a complete answer. Evidence-informed preparation, not a treatment. © Ezra Brown.