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Respect: It Starts With You! WritingRespect: It Starts With You! Writing
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Sunburst Visual Media
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Grade
3rd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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Year
2002
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Respect: It Starts With You!

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There are few things as frustrating to a teacher as a disrespectful student. Luckily this collection of activities, worksheets, and writing exercises is here to help eliminate this problem by teaching young leaners what respect really means.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

bullying, respect, Problem Solving, conflict resolution, character building, character counts!, feelings, emotions, stereotypes, classroom rules, rules, following rules, school rules, self esteem

Additional Tags

classroom support

Instructional Ideas

  • Complete these worksheets and activities over the course of the entire year as you build and maintain a classroom community based on respect
  • Have students work in small groups creating and presenting skits that demonstrate examples and non-examples of what respect looks like
  • Perform the included play during the first week of school to instill a basic understanding of respect that can be built upon throughout the school year

Pros

  • Resource is broken into four sections addressing respect for feelings, differences, rules, and self
  • Includes a song and script for a play about respect that engage children in learning
  • Provides a list of suggested fiction and nonfiction books that address the concept of respect

Cons

  • The cover page has a typo, "It's Starts with You!" instead of "It Starts with You!"

Common Core

W.3.1.a W.3.3.a W.4.1.a W.4.3.a W.5.1.a W.5.3.a L.3.5.a L.3.5.b

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