Choices and Consequences Match

Start by sharing something you could not do at first and learned with practice. Read the yet sentences aloud before and after adding the word, so students hear the change. Revisit the goal ladder in a few weeks and color the steps they have reached.

Six pages on growth mindset and choices for 1st and 2nd grade. Students sort fixed and growth mindset sentences, add the word yet to each sentence, read a story about Nia learning from a mistake and answer questions, and match each choice to what happens next. Two planning pages have them write a goal and the steps to reach it on a goal ladder, and draw something they got better at with practice. Four pages have an answer key.

Yes, both. We made it for 1st Grade social-emotional learning, and the page works the same whether it lands on a kitchen table or a center rotation. At home, most families go through it together and talk the answers out loud, and that talking is where most of the learning happens with growth mindset and good choices. In class it runs well as independent work while you pull a small group. Print one copy or thirty, whichever the day needs.

Adding the word yet turns I can't do it into I can't do it yet, which tells a child they are still learning. The page has students add yet to sentences and read them again.

It breaks one goal into small steps, one on each rung, so a big goal feels possible. Students write a goal they want to reach and the steps that will get them there.

At 6 to 8, children are ready for bigger feeling words like frustrated, nervous and proud, and for noticing what caused a feeling. They practice solving friendship problems, giving compliments, seeing a situation from someone else's point of view, telling a small problem from a big one, and choosing a calm down strategy that works for them. These worksheets add short reading and writing to each skill.

A growth mindset is the belief that you can get better at something with practice and effort. A child with a fixed mindset says I can't do it, while a child with a growth mindset says I can't do it yet. The growth mindset pages have children sort fixed and growth mindset sentences, add the word yet, and read a short story about a girl who learns from a mistake.

Size of the problem is a way to help children match their reaction to what happened. A small problem, like losing a pencil, needs a small reaction and can be fixed alone. A big problem, like someone getting hurt, needs a grown-up right away. Sorting problems into small, medium and big on paper makes it easier to remember in the moment.

No. Social-emotional learning is taught alongside the core subjects, and these pages are not tagged to a Common Core or C3 Framework standard. Many schools follow their own SEL program, and these worksheets fit next to any of them as practice and discussion starters.