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Cool to Be Kind WorksheetCool to Be Kind Worksheet
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5th
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English Language Arts
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2010
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Cool to Be Kind

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This Cool to Be Kind worksheet also includes:
  • Teacher Guide and Answers
  • Paired Text "Me and My Habits"
  • Paired Text "Me and My Habits" Answers
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Make a connection between empathy and bullying with a reading passage that has readers thinking about other people's feelings. After reading, learners respond to ten reading comprehension questions involving short answer and multiple choice.

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

bullying, kindness, friendship

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Instruct readers to highlight their answers within the text in order to demonstrate understanding of the answers they chose
  • Include in a unit on emotional intelligences, teaching empathy, or bullying curriculum
  • Copy front to back to reduce the amount of paper used
  • Give the paired text and questions as homework, and use the two-passage question set as a basis for discussion

Classroom Considerations

  • Passage is a Lexile® 890 reading level
  • Uses data from 2010

Pros

  • Comes with an answer key, a paired text with questions, an answer key for the paired text, and a set of questions that uses the original text and paired text as a basis for the answers
  • Common Core-designed passage and questions

Cons

  • None

Common Core

RI.5.1 RI.5.2 RI.5.9 RI.5.10

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