SEL: Wordy Birdy – Friendship and Loyalty

Description

Do your students need a refresher or an initial lesson on friendship and loyalty? How about hands on activities and practice on those concepts plus academic concepts as well? This SEL: Wordy Birdy- has the theme of Friendship, Loyalty, and the Importance of Paying Attention. This resource includes 35+ pages and 22 engaging and differentiated activities! Perfect for elementary aged students.

 

This is a quick- no prep activity for you to use with your students. All you need to do is print out the hard copies OR assign the digital activities to your students in Google Classroom, Canvas, or whatever digital platform you choose to use.

 

This resource includes:

*A summary of the story page.

*Optional Work Packet Cover

*Predicting what the story will be about page.

*Story Concepts- Main Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution, Favorite Part of Book.

*Summarizing events in the story

*Character Traits of the main character.

*Character Traits and Text Evidence Chart.

*Text Connections- Text to Self, Text to Text, Text to World

*Character Analysis- How did the main character change from the beginning to the end of the story?

*Problem/Solution page- Students go in depth

*Theme or Message of the story

*Find the Following page

*Contraction Activity: Level 1 and Level 2 PLUS Digital

*Let’s Write about YOU- Wordy Birdy talks A LOT! Students now have the opportunity to talk about themselves including: their likes, dislikes, and questions they may have.

*Task cards (2) pages: Task cards that can be used individually, in partners or in small groups. They are conversation question stems. If done any way besides individually, students would each take a turn reading and answering each question.

*Roll and Retell Activity (2 versions with different questions) and a recording page (OPTIONAL)

*Loyalty Activity- Whole Group lesson-a Loyalty label and “Loyalty” cards are provided for students to come up with their own definition of what loyalty is and give examples of when they have been loyal, or someone has been loyal to them. Students will next complete the LOYALTY writing prompt.

*Number 1: Writing prompt- Loyalty: 4 templates: blank, larger lines for younger kids, lined for older kids, and DIGITAL.

*Traits of a good friend sort.

*Design your own cover for the book

*A coloring page.

Other Resources:

• If you like this resource, check out the SEL resources below that are also listed in my store as well:

 

• Our Class is a Family ~ A story about class community, friendship, and kindness.
• The Day You Begin ~ A story about diversity, friendship, and empathy.
• Peabody’s Apples ~ A story about the “power of your words” and not spreading rumors or gossip.
• How Full is Your Bucket– A story about self-esteem, kindness, the Golden Rule
• My Mouth is a Volcano~ A story about learning to have self-control with your words and interrupting.
• The Dot– National Dot Day Picture book due with The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
• Do Unto Otters– A story about manners and The Golden Rule.
• Salt in His Shoes– A story about perseverance and growth mindset.
• The Day the Crayons Quit– Feelings, Conflict Management
• Enemy Pie– Friendship, Problem-Solving, Bullying, Judgement, Respect
• Eyes that Kiss in the Corners– Diversity / Self Love
• Even Superheroes Have Bad Days– Feelings / Self Control
• I’m Not Just a Scribble– Inclusiveness, Friendship, Belonging, Self-Worth
• The Marker – Finding your courage, Embracing Mistakes, Being Brave
• The Eraser– Finding your strength, Second Chances
• Jelly Donut Difference– Spreading Kindness
• The Cool Bean– Kindness and including others.
• The Good Egg– Self-Acceptance, Accepting Others, it’s okay not to be perfect

Other Resources:

The Bad Seed– Your reputation and past doesn’t define you, accepting others for who they are, self-reflection.

The Smart Cookie The power of self-confidence

The Big Cheese– Humility, Empathy, Being a Part of a Team

The Dirt Girl– “It’s okay to be different.”; Diversity.

Snippets– reveals the power of kindness and the beauty of being unique/ Math polygon incorporation as well.

Meet March– Teamwork.

The Girl Who Made a Million Mistakes– Growth Mindset, Perseverance, Self-Esteem

Splatter– Teamwork, Trying New Things, Compromise

The Sour Grape– Gratitude, Compassion, Self-Reflection

Wordy Birdy- Friendship, Loyalty, and the Importance of Paying Attention

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