Given a story about being a good friend, students will verbalize at least six characteristics of a good friend as a group. Students will write using appropriate forms, conventions, and styles to communicate ideas and information to different audiences for different purposes. This lesson makes a connection to this specific KERA Goal because there is stress to the students about the importance of writing, its usefulness, and different ways to use it. This specific lesson focuses on writing creatively to an audience.
Students use problem-solving processes to develop solutions to relatively complex problems.
This lesson focuses on the social skill of being friendly to those around you. Students will be asked to make decisions and verbalize what they would do given a similar situation as to the one in the book. In the classroom over the course of the beginning of the year, students have studied and discussed numerous social skills including patience, ignoring those who may get you in trouble, doing your best to learn all that you can, as well as several others. This trend of social skills learning continues in this lesson with a discussion on how to be a good friend to those around you. Students will also do a writing piece that follows the story and lesson, which should demonstrate what they would continue to do to be a good friend.