Help your students build strong, positive relationships with the Friendship Read Aloud Picture Book Companion Lessons & Activities! This resource is perfect for teaching essential friendship skills, such as making friends, how to be a good friend, sharing, and empathy, with fun activities like a Find a Friend Who scavenger hunt, friendship crown, crafts, and good friend sort.

⭐Paired with your favorite read aloud books (Peanut Butter and Cupcake, Stick and Stone, The Rainbow Fish, Enemy Pie, and Meesha Makes a Friend), these activities create a comprehensive approach to social-emotional learning, making friendship an engaging and integral part of your curriculum.

⭐Children will participate in classroom discussions and book chats, share their thoughts in written form, and participate in fun, engaging activities that build friendships, emotional awareness, and social skills.

Included in the Friendship book companion pack:

• 5 Children’s books related to making friends and being a good friend
• Detailed lesson plans
• Book chat cards to guide discussion
• Anchor charts
• Book responses & writing prompts
• 4 follow-up activities for every book (2 in digital format)
• Book companion guide with safe links
• Google Slides ready for use in Google Classroom
• Images for use in Seesaw
• Interactive PowerPoint file

5 Friendship Book Companions Included:

❤️1. Peanut Butter and Cupcake by Terry Border

FOCUS: making friends

Children will learn different ways to make friends. They will understand that it may be easier to form friendships with others with things in common.

4 Activities in the Peanut Butter and Cupcake book companion:

1. Character puppet show & friendship scenarios role play activity
2. "Friends Are" friendship posters
3. "What Goes Together?" find a friend activity partner cards
4. "Ways to Make Friends" friendship social story

❤️2. Meesha Makes a Friend by Tom Percival

FOCUS: Making friends when fitting in is a struggle

Children will understand that a great way to make friends is to find others who enjoy the same things and share them together. They will learn to recognize others who don’t have friends and find ways to include them.

4 Activities in the Meesha Makes a Friend book companion:

1. Dream Friend vision board activity
2. Find a Friend Who Activity scavenger hunt
3. "What Can You Do? friendship scenario role play cards
4. Friendship coloring pages and quote posters

❤️3. Stick and Stone by Ferry & Lichtenheld

FOCUS: how to be a good friend and how to stand up for others

Children will understand what makes a good friend and how to be a good friend to others.

4 Activities in the Stick and Stone book companion:

1. Good Friend friendship sort activity
2. Friendship craft crown activity
3. Friendship pledge & activity book
4. Friendship Rocks

❤️4. Enemy Pie by Derek Munson

FOCUS: getting to know someone before making judgments

They will learn to be open to making new friends with others.

4 Activities in the Enemy Pie book companion:

1. My Friendship Recipe friendship poem & craft activity
2. Getting to Know Others comic book
3. Don't Judge a Book by its Cover design a book cover activity
4. "Get to Know You" friendship game

❤️5. The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

FOCUS: sharing

Children will understand the importance of sharing and giving to others to make and keep friends. They will also learn what friends are, what they do, and what they say.

4 Activities in The Rainbow Fish book companion:

1. "I Can Share" fish friendship craft activity
2. Share or Keep sort
3. Rainbow Fish directed drawing and writing prompts
4. "My Special Thing" scale craft activity

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✅Check out the preview for a closer look at what this resource provides: the book lessons, story activities, and digital activities.

✏️LESSONS:

Each book has a detailed lesson plan, with “Book Chat” cards and questions to guide your discussion before, during, and after reading.

An interactive anchor chart and writing activity are also included. These focus on the social-emotional skills presented in the book and encourage children to express their thinking.

✏️STORY ACTIVITIES:

Each book has 4 follow-up activities to build upon the book’s social-emotional lesson. A fun variety of activities are included for independent, partner, and small group use.

✏️DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

Every book companion has a digital anchor chart, writing template, and at least 2 digital activities. These are ready in Google Slides™ for use in Google Classroom™.

❤️Suggestions on How to Use:

• Each lesson starts with a book chat that continues during and after reading a book. There are questions included to guide your discussion.
• There is an anchor chart idea provided to enhance the book’s lesson.
• A follow-up writing activity can be used to extend the discussion.
• There are 4 activities for each children’s book. Some include digital options.
• I suggest reading 1 book per week and doing the lesson. Use the extra activities to reinforce the topic the story covers throughout the week.
• Differentiated templates included. Please choose what fits best with your students’ abilities and needs.
• The lessons and activities work great for after morning meetings or end of the day lessons, school counselors and classroom teachers, and children in K-2.

Don’t own a copy of a book? No problem! Safelinks to video recordings of books being read aloud are included, as well as a book list of more books to use during your lessons.

DISCLAIMER: The video links to the read-aloud and supplemental lesson content are subject to change at any time. Proud to be Primary is not the creator of these videos, and therefore the links may be removed by the creators or authors of the content at any time at their discretion. If you find a broken link in the resource, please let us know by leaving a Q&A, and try searching YouTube for an alternate video to watch instead. Read alouds online are also available for teachers via the library website Hoopla.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Melinda B. says, "I love these SEL units! The mentor text are popular and relevant. They are easy for students to connect to and the activities are engaging. The message sticks with them! Thank you!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Heather H. says, "I taught every lesson and loved every one!"

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