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social emotional learning activities for elementary

SEL Curriculum: Social Emotional Learning Activities for Elementary Students

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🍎📚 Read it. Find it. Prove it! Do your students r 🍎📚 Read it. Find it. Prove it! Do your students read a passage and then guess at the answers instead of going back to the text? 😩 Getting students to find text evidence and actually PROVE their thinking takes lots of practice! These August & September Paired Passages make it easy! Students read engaging passages, answer comprehension questions, go back into the text to find evidence, and then compare and contrast the two passages using a Venn diagram. 🔎📖 With fun themes like apples, donuts, monkeys, school supplies, rules, and kindness, these NO PREP passages are perfect for small groups, centers, whole group, or independent practice. Less guessing and more “I know because the text says…” 🙌 🍎 Comment PASSAGES and I’ll send you the link! #firstgrade #readingcomprehension #textevidence #compareandcontrast #pairedpassages #firstgradereading #firstgraderoars LinkDM *736*
🐿️🍂 Sometimes the best prize isn’t winning at all. 🐿️🍂 Sometimes the best prize isn’t winning at all. 💛 The Golden Acorn is such a BEAUTIFUL fall read-aloud for teaching students about friendship, teamwork, and realizing that the people beside you are more important than being first. 🐿️🌰 This story opens the door for so many meaningful classroom conversations, and this book companion makes it easy to take those discussions even further! Students can work on sequencing, main idea and details, problem and solution, character analysis, character change, story message, text connections, point of view, vocabulary, and more. There are multiple options for many of the activities, making it easy to differentiate for your learners. 📚✏️ I’ve also included writing, word work, and fun math games to extend the story across your day. And the crafts are SO cute! 😍 Students can create a squirrel holding a golden acorn or make the fall acorn craft with writing. Add the included “Nutty About Fall” letters and you have an adorable fall bulletin board ready to go! 🍁🌰 If you’re looking for a fall read-aloud that combines reading comprehension + friendship + SEL + a little fall fun, this is such a good one! Comment ACORN or GOLDEN and I’ll send you the link! 🐿️💛 #FirstGradeRoars #TheGoldenAcorn #FallReadAloud #FallActivities #FirstGrade #ReadingComprehension #FriendshipActivities #SEL #SquirrelActivities #FallBulletinBoard LinkDM *726* “I used this book in the fall and my kids absolutely loved it. The activities that were created to go along with the book were aligned for exactly what I was looking to work on with my students. Thank you!” “This resource was SO cute and perfect for my sub plans!! Thank you!!”
Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker is such a fun read-al Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker is such a fun read-aloud for helping students understand why listening is just as important as talking! Lacey loves to talk, talk, TALK—but when she suddenly loses her voice, she begins to notice just how much she has been missing. This story is perfect for sparking meaningful conversations about listening, self-awareness, taking turns, and being a good friend and classmate. I created this companion to turn Lacey’s lesson into meaningful learning with differentiated reading comprehension, writing, word work, math connections, and an adorable owl craft your students will love! 🦉✏️ Whether your class is chatty at the beginning, middle, or end of the year, this is such a fun way to practice those important listening skills! 💛 Comment LISTEN and I’ll send you the link! LinkDM *437*
🎃🥣 Pumpkins + friendship + a little classroom dram 🎃🥣 Pumpkins + friendship + a little classroom drama = the PERFECT fall read-aloud! Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper is one of those stories that gives you SO much to talk about! Duck, Cat, and Squirrel have the perfect routine for making their pumpkin soup…until Duck decides he wants a different job. Uh oh! 😬 What follows is a wonderful story for discussing teamwork, friendship, sharing, kindness, compromise, and what happens when things don’t go exactly the way we want them to. ❤️ This literature companion takes those meaningful conversations even further with differentiated reading comprehension activities for sequencing, retelling, problem and solution, character analysis, feelings, text evidence, inferencing, story message, point of view, author’s purpose, and more! Students can also work on vocabulary and word work, complete writing activities, play a few fun math games, and create an adorable Pumpkin Retelling Craft to show the important events from the story. 🎃 It’s such a fun way to mix fall learning + reading comprehension + SEL all in one! And how cute would a “From Pumpkin to Soup” display be hanging in your classroom this fall?! 🍂🥣 🎃 Comment PUMPKIN or SOUP and I’ll send you the link! #firstgraderoars #pumpkinsoup #pumpkinactivities #fallreadaloud #fallactivities #firstgrade #firstgradereading #readingcomprehension #selactivities #friendship #teamwork #pumpkinunit #teacherspayteachers “We had a pumpkin theme in the library, and this was a great resource for multiple grades.” "This resource is filled with various activities that can be used to differentiate how my students retell the connecting story. My students loved it. " LinkDM *705*
🌻 We all have a few Bad Seed moments... and that's 🌻 We all have a few Bad Seed moments... and that's exactly why this book is such a classroom favorite! 💛 The Bad Seed is the perfect read-aloud for teaching students that their choices don't define them—they can always choose to grow and make better decisions. 🌱 This companion is packed with engaging reading comprehension activities, vocabulary, writing, word work, fun math connections, an adorable craft, and bulletin board letters to make your lesson unforgettable. Comment SEED and I'll send you the link! 🌻 “I love these books so much and the companion craft and sheets provided are very engaging for my students! I especially love the simple directions so I can also leave the book and pages in my sub tub!” #firstgrade #backtoschool #readaloud #socialemotionallearning #readingcomprehension LinkDM *461*
🦇 Are you afraid of bats? Your students might be s 🦇 Are you afraid of bats? Your students might be surprised by how AMAZING they really are! Bats are one of my favorite nonfiction topics to teach in late fall. There are so many fascinating facts that get kids excited about reading, researching, and learning! 🦇🍂 This All About Bats nonfiction unit is packed with engaging activities that help students practice important informational text and reading comprehension skills while becoming bat experts! Students will read an 11-page nonfiction mini reader filled with text features like headings, a table of contents, glossary, bold words, captions, and diagrams. There’s also a matching colorful book with REAL bat photographs that you can project with Google Slides™, download as a PowerPoint®, share as a PDF, or even print for your classroom library. After reading, students can dig deeper with comprehension activities, nonfiction text features, fact and opinion, vocabulary and word work, informative and opinion writing, and even their very own bat research report! Then finish your study with the adorable bat craft and a bulletin board that says “Just Hanging Out!” 🦇 It’s such a fun way to sneak in tons of nonfiction reading practice while learning about an animal kids are naturally curious about! Comment BAT and I’ll send you the link! 🦇🖤 #firstgrade #firstgradereading #bats #batunit #nonfiction #informationaltext #readingcomprehension #fallactivities #firstgradeactivities "I love all the different activities that this product has. It kept my kids engaged, while allowing me to teach the required standards. " “I love the small informational text and the pages that go along with it. Lots of pages for writing and my class enjoyed learning about bats.” LinkDM *685*
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