Ready-to-Use Character Education Lessons & Activities for the Elementary Grades.

This unique resource gives you hundreds of ready-to-use lessons and illustrated activity sheets for teaching children to define 18 specific character traits representative of good character, recognize the traits in action, and apply them daily to situations at home, at school, and in the community.

An "introductory worksheet" helps you explain the philosophy underlying the lessons to your class followed by 18 self-contained instructional units you can use in any order with students of varying abilities. Each unit includes:

• A Reproducible Journal Ideas page with self-rating scale to help students reflect on and write their ideas and opinions regarding the trait


• A Reproducible Pre/Post Test featuring scenarios involving the particular trait covered


• 3 Teacher Direction pages with suggestions for using the lesson materials, questions for class discussion, and answer keys to the unit worksheets


• 9 illustrated Activity Sheets, three each to help students "define the trait in their own words "recognize the trait in action," and "use the trait in their daily lives."


• A concluding Activity/Game/Puzzle to reinforce students' understanding and practice of the trait, including reproducible card and board games

All materials are printed in a lay-flat binding format that folds flat for photocopying the 180 test and activity pages, and organized into the following three sections:

Having Respect For Yourself
Having Respect For Others
Having A Positive Outlook

In short, Character Building Activities for Kids gives you a flexible, ready-to-use program for teaching children to understand and apply character traits to their lives - a program that provides clear objectives, interesting and thoughtful activities, and tools for evaluating student achievement.

Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 11
Pages: 345 + worksheets