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Giving Compliments: Social Skills Lesson for Giving Compliments

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Giving Compliments: Social Skills Lesson for Giving Compliments

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Made for: Small Groups

Grade Level: 2, 3, and 4

File Format: PDF

Total Pages: 20

Topic: Holidays & Seasonal and Social Skills

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About This Resource

Genuine compliments help develop friendships, promote a positive classroom culture, and instill kindness in interactions. In this lesson, students will understand what giving compliments should look like and what it shouldn't look like. The lesson provides scaffolded instruction, practice activities, and opportunities for reflection. The winter theme will help target key social-emotional skills while engaging with students.

This lesson could easily be used for students who need explicit instruction and additional practice with social pragmatics.

What You Get

  • 3-Step Mini-Lesson on Giving Compliments. This mini-lesson provides different options so you can differentiate for your students’ skills and ages. It also provides more activities than would typically be covered within a lesson to help you reinforce skills later and have more choice in the structure of your lesson.
  • 4 Anchor Charts: Compliments are …
  • Compliment a Fictional Character Worksheet and Character Cards
  • Compliment Brainstorm Page
  • Compliment Sort: Snowball Bucket, Snowball Compliments
  • Follow-Up Class Activity Ideas
  • Compliment Sentence Starters
  • Exit Tickets

Details

This resource is forclassroom teachers, school counselors, or other school staff looking to integrate social emotional learning into the classroom. It can be used as a whole group, small group, or individual lesson.

Reviews

  • 5 stars: 65 (96%)
  • 4 stars: 3 (4%)
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Andrea C.
Winter social refresh

This product has everything you need to remind students how to give compliments and why kindness is important. Now I need one for the beginning of the year!

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clancy A.
great resource

This was a great resource for my students thank you

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Daisy C.

This was a great resource to use with my second graders. Thank you!

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Clare W.

I really enjoyed teaching and practicing with my kids how to give a good compliment. They truly understood it and were engaged. We used this to learn how to write a compliment to one another.

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Dawn D.

My students enjoyed this activity, especially the snowball sort. I adapted some of it to fit the level of my students but it was a fun, engaging activity for social skills.

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Kaitlyn M.

I liked the way this broke down how to make good and appropriate compliments.

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Katie G.

Great breakdown of compliments and such fun activity ideas to practice!

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Alyssa M.

I absolutely love this resource !!! I used it for Pink Shirt Day today to talk about being kind and complimenting each other instead of insulting each other. I love the variety of activities provided to support the learning of what compliments are and how to properly write them.

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Jamie S.

Wow! What an amazing file to help teach what compliments are! I used this during the Great Kindness Challenge week and my students really enjoyed the activities.

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Shantel R.

This was excellent, thank you for this resource!

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Magical L.w.M.M.

Thanks! This was really helpful for teaching students how to give compliments.

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Katie W.

I loved the handouts that came with these worksheets. They were easy to read and I use them all the time, even not in winter.

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Kristen M.

Students had fun during an inclass lesson. Engaging and easy to use. Some prep required.

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Caroline L.

This resource was perfect for my special education resource students! It was super easy and quick to prep, engaging for them, and has provided many weeks worth of good practice of skills! Definitely recommend!

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Doreen C.

Great resource.

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Danielle S.

My students were engaged with the lesson and activities!

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Katie N.

My class needed major behavior interventions and this resource has been incredibly helpful!

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Rebecca B.

My students loved this for our small social skills setting. I liked how I was able to add my own characters as well since my class is all boys during this time.

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Shveta T.

I used this resource to teach them what compliments looks like. and how they make the receiver feel. The examples and compliment starters in the bundle were really helpful to get the students started on writing. Used them every Friday afternoon.

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Tara P.

I used this on zoom during morning meeting time. It really helped the kids to understand how to phrase a compliment and what a compliment really is.

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Amy L.

I used these to review giving compliments to each other. The different posters were perfect for explaining what a good compliment should sound like.

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Readers i.B.

We LOVED this resource. Great for SEL.

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Jamie Y.

Great resource! Really helped my students understand what makes a good compliment!

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Renee B.

This is exactly what my students needed to understand that compliments need to be true, positive, and most importantly - specific!

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CounselingKidz

Great lesson starter

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Coleen V.

We have been learning about giving compliments and this has helped a lot.

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Valeri B.

Great resource

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Melissa R.

Loved this!

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Amanda B.

Love this resource. My students loved it!

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Erica R.

Wonderful resource! I spread it out over the course of a couple of weeks and used it in conjunction with receiving compliments.

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Berry B.L.C.

Love this unit! Everything I needed to teach about feedback with my second graders.

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Lacey J.

My students loved using this to learn about giving compliments!

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Amy G.

Really liked the explanations you gave - very helpful to students who have a more literal understanding of compliments. My students particularly loved the bucket with the snowballs (and pretending to "throw" them to give their answered on the shared screen during distance learning!) Thank you!

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