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This series of three lessons will help your upper-elementary, middle school, or gifted elementary students learn more about what friendship means, where to find friends, and what kinds of friends they might have. Complete with activities and rubrics, this set of lessons will raise everyone's awareness of each other's emotional needs. This set of lessons is perfect for the beginning of the year or as a mid-year community builder. It is also ideal for counselors or prevention specialists to use

Help your students develop interesting, well-rounded protagonists and antagonists with these character development sheets. Each sheet includes basic descriptors to choose from along a spectrum, a space to draw a sketch of the character, and questions to help the writer think about the character's purpose in the story.

Get your primary students involved in problem solving by helping them to identify what "bugs them" (problem identification). Use one of these pages to provide initial motivation and to organize your students' ideas, then help them to choose a problem "bug" to begin working on finding a solution for.