Knowing how to accept compliments is a critical social skill that lets students build and maintain friendships. In this lesson, students will understand what receiving a compliment should look like and shouldn't. The lesson provides scaffolded instruction, multiple practice activities, and opportunities for reflection. The engaging winter-themed resource will help target essential social-emotional skills while connecting with students.

What's Included

3-Step Mini-Lesson on Accepting Compliments 

Introduction: Discuss and Character Example

Discuss with students that there are great and not-so-great ways to accept compliments. Use fairy tale characters like Cinderella to show them different ways to respond to compliments.

Group Activity: Compliment Response Snowballs

Students will actively engage in the learning process through a group activity. They will sort responses to compliments using response snowballs and a sorting mat.

Independent Activities: Worksheets

• Accepting Compliments Worksheet - Students write out a response in which they accept a compliment.
• Revise Responses Worksheet - Students revise a response where someone deflected or rejected a compliment.
• Reflection Page - Students answer three reflection questions about accepting compliments.

Supplemental Materials

Posters

• Don’t Reject or Deflect, Accept.
• Ways We Deflect and Reject,
• How to Accept a Compliment,
• Responses to Compliments

Suggestions for Follow-Up Class Activities

Accepting Compliments Sentence Stems

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