I Like Me

Students explore individual differences. In this literacy and self-esteem lesson, students listen to the story Elmo by David McKee, then describe what characteristics make Elmo special. Students complete a T chart showing how Elmo looked...

Have your class create keepsake books about themselves. This activity is a presented as a basic idea with minimal justifications or classroom applications. However, with a little effort, this could become a full lesson. Add a rubric,...

You can, you can, you can read The Little Engine That Could with your class! Included here are ideas that you can use before, during, and after reading the book with your pupils.

Students rewrite a fairy tales to eliminate any gender bias that occurs in the original fairy tale. In this gender bias lesson plan, students also discuss how gender bias effects self esteem, relationships, and behaviors.

A read-aloud of the story, Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, begins a lesson all about big emotions. Scholars share a time when someone they know exhibited strong feelings, focusing on what they said, looked like, and how they...

Students increase their self-esteem and identify how and why they are important. They listen to various books. as listed in the instructional activity. Then, students list various famous people and write about how those same people are...

Students discuss what it might be like to be the new person in a group, choose the correct words for an apology, learn a vivid lesson about how unking words can hurt others, and write a paragraph to explain what they learned from the...

Students explore the concepts of community and self-worth. In this literature lesson, students read Clifford's Family and then create their own booklets based on their own families.

Students write about themselves. In this personal writing lesson plan, students write their name vertically down a sheet of paper and think of a self descriptive word that matches each letter of their name. Students write a descriptive...

Students find the best part of their body. In this positive self-concept instructional activity, students listen to the story The Best Part of Me. They come up with their best feature and write a poem about it.