My Kind of Friend

In this friendship chain learning exercise, students follow the 6 instructions listed to create a chain that features the qualities of friendship.

Students investigate the concept of friendship as part of a four lessons unit which integrates literature with language arts, family life, social studies, or religious studies. Peace, cooperation, social justice, and multicultural...

Students explore the importance of being kind and loving to others. As a class, students read and discuss a story about friendship. They share experiences of friendship and sing songs about friends. In groups, students name qualities...

For this friendship worksheet, learners list the qualities they want in a friend. Students fill up a 1 page sheet about the qualities they find in good friendship.

Lesson explores what qualities make a good friend.

Students complete an art activity and a classroom graph that coincides with the Tacky the Penguin Series by Helen Leste.

For this friendship worksheet, students think about the qualities they want in a friend. Students write a short paragraph about what kind of friend they want.

Students participate in a Reader's theatre about Tacky the Penguin.

Students read "Charlie, the Caterpillar" and discuss the qualities of a good friend. They write group and individual paragraphs about the topic of friendship.

A resource this sparse could mislead you into thinking it's just plain thin. But in doing the activity, your young writers will embark on multiple-sentence writing. Use it for early practice with paragraph structure. What could be easier...