verb. 1  To speak or act in response, as to a question: answer, rejoin, reply, retort, return, riposte. See ask. 2  To act in return to something, as a stimulus: react. See action. 3  To present with a specified reaction: greet, meet1, react. See feelings, greeting.
Social stories are meant to help children understand social situations, expectations, social cues, new activities, and/or social rules. As the name implies, they are brief descriptive stories that provide accurate information regarding a social situation.
Frame story, also called frame tale, overall unifying story within which one or more tales are related. 1  In the single story, the opening and closing constitutes a frame. In the cyclical frame storyâthat is, a story in which several tales are relatedâsome frames are externally imposed and only loosely bind the diversified stories.