Social-Emotional Learning

Social-Emotional Learning: Lessons for Developing Decision-Making Skills is designed to help students develop a strong set of social and emotional skills. Students are asked to read, think and respond to a variety of reading passages that contain character-building scenarios.

Each of the 15 units includes:

• A 3-page reading passage addressing a different aspect of character development, such as honesty, fairness, respect and responsibility
• Thought-provoking questions for teacher-guided discussions
• 5 reading comprehension questions
• 4 different writing activities to gauge understanding of concepts