Social skills are just like academic skills—we need to spend time practicing them with our students! Bolster your SEL block with this Perseverance Character Education Unit. You’ll have a toolbox full of perseverance activities, printables, lesson plans, coloring pages, bulletin board materials, anchor charts, and so much more to give your students intentional practice with perseverance in your classroom. Empower your students to be their best selves as you use these resources to develop perseverance skills and positive character traits.

 

 

You’ll Love:

• A variety of resources to explicitly model and practice perseverance with students
• Giving your students an opportunity to build their classroom community
• Bolstering your SEL curriculum and making character education a priority

 

 

What You Get in this Perseverance Character Education Unit:

A Full Month of SEL/Character Education Curriculum

 

Perseverance Pacing Guide

• Organize your entire month of perseverance.
• Plan to set aside the necessary time to complete the curriculum with your students.

 

Perseverance Parent Letter

• Get family members involved so they can reinforce the character education trait at home.
• Provide parents with tools to help them explain, model, and praise perseverance at home.
• Includes a list of books and movies that families can enjoy together.

 

Perseverance Read Alouds

• Choose perseverance read aloud texts that teach different aspects of perseverance.
• Each book makes for a great discussion!

 

Perseverance Bulletin Boards

• Introduce perseverance to your students with a beautiful bulletin board display.
• Keep this display in your classroom for the entire month that you are teaching perseverance.
• Everything you need to create the display is here—including completed examples!

 

Perseverance Anchor Chart

• Create a visual reference for your students—keep learning accessible!
• Students can refer back to this anchor chart as they respond to questions, work independently, and contribute to discussions during your SEL or Character Education lessons.
• A printable version of the anchor chart is also included.

 

Perseverance Posters

• Provide students with a visual definition of perseverance in your room with 6 poster options.

 

Editable Acts of Perseverance Calendar

• Use this calendar to challenge your students to persevere each day.
• It is editable so you can change the month or the acts of perseverance.
• TIP: Edit this resource to make multiple versions of the calendar – students perform different perseverance acts from their classmates each day!

 

Doodle Reflection Page

• Give students the chance to get creative with ideas about what perseverance is.
• Includes reflection questions, examples of perseverance, fun perseverance quotes, and doodles.

 

In the Name of Perseverance Activity

• Students are challenged to write their name in increasingly difficult ways.
• This is a fun example of working through a task that keeps getting more and more difficult.

 

Perseverance Math Challenge

• Students will use logic and math skills to complete a few math challenges.
• After each challenge, students will reflect on the difficulty of each task.

 

Perseverance Maze Activity

• Students will complete mazes with various levels of difficulty and reflect on their experience.

 

Quote of the Week

• Each week, discuss a new quote about perseverance with your students.
• Quote of the week includes five different quotes about perseverance.
• Activity page with three reflection questions is included for each quote.
• Each quote is available in a speech bubble that you can print and hang.

 

Perseverance Scenarios/Social Skills

• Let students place themselves in new situations and think about ways to persevere.
• Use these scenarios to inspire meaningful conversations in your classroom.
• Display the scenarios on your bulletin board for a class discussion or print the scenarios for students to work in groups or independently.

 

Perseverance Readers Theater:

• Readers theater will help with fluency, comprehension, and speaking and while studying character education.
• There are three scripts for students to read and perform.

 

Writing Prompts + Publishing Pages

• Includes five writing prompts for students to reflect and write about perseverance.
• Students will write about a time they showed perseverance, a sales pitch for perseverance, advice for a student that that’s unsure about what to do for a career, a short story about perseverance. and a short story about how a person named Daryl learns to persevere.
• Bulletin board, writing paper, and clipart to turn this into a display is included.

 

Digital Option for Use With Google

• Option to go 100% paperless with this resource.

 

 

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These activities are perfect for:

• Morning Meetings
• Counselor Lessons
• Whole-Class Discussions
• Service Learning Projects
• Conflict Resolution Discussions
• Small Groups
• Independent Work
• Early Finishers
• Morning Work
• Sub Plans, and so much more!

 

 

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