Empathy And Kindness Bundle: Lessons Picture Book Guides SEL Character Education

Empathy is one of the most important Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) skills.
This Empathy and Kindness bundle includes a unit on Empathy plus 3 picture book guides. This comprehensive bundle is designed to equip your students with the skills to create a more empathetic, kind, and responsive classroom community where empathy is both a learned skill and a daily practice.

This Empathy and Kindness bundle is the cornerstone for building a culturally responsive classroom where students don't just learn about empathy—they demonstrate it.

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THIS EMPATHY BUNDLE CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING 4 RESOURCES

• Empathy and Kindness Unit
• Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch Book Companion
• The Day the Crayons Quit Book Companion
• The Invisible Boy Book Companion

WHY YOU NEED THIS RESOURCE:

• Creates a supportive and inclusive classroom
• Helps build student character
• Enhances academic success
• Helps build positive relationships

SUGGESTIONS FOR USE:

• Whole class
• Small groups
• Morning Warm-Ups
• Social Skills or Guidance Lessons
• RTI

EMPATHY AND KINDNESS UNIT:

• Learn about the difference between empathy and kindness, and why we need both.
• Role-play scenarios where they demonstrate empathy and kindness
• Explore mirror neurons, the scientific root of empathy, and use them to identify emotions
• Craft thoughtful and empathetic responses to the hardships faced by others.
• Learn about famous empathetic leaders like Mother Teresa, Maya Angelou, and Mahatma Gandhi, real-world role models of empathy and understanding.

SOMEBODY LOVES YOU, MR. HATCH BOOK COMPANION

• A pre-reading wondering about the book activity
• Making predictions activity using the cover of the book
• Comprehension questions
• Story Map
• Activity to examine important events in the story
• Examining cause and effect
• Several activities to summarize the story
• A sequencing activity
• Identifying the themes in the story activity
• Compare and Contrast activity where students compare Mr. Hatch at the beginning and end of the story – 3 versions to differentiate
• Character map – 2 versions to differentiate
• Challenge vocabulary cards with matching definitions
• Vocabulary book where students draw a picture, write the definition and then write a sentence using the vocabulary word
• Making words with the letters in valentine
• A book review
• 5 creative writing activities
• A friendship mini-book writing activity
• Mr. Hatch, I Am Poem/craftivity
• Noun, verb, and adjective sorting activity using vocabulary from the story – great for a center
• Syllable sorting activity using vocabulary from the story – great for a center
• Making compound words activity

THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT:

• Making predictions activity using the cover of the book
• Comprehension questions
• Story Map
• Activity to examine important events in the story
• Examining cause and effect
• Several activities to summarize the story
• A sequencing activity
• Identifying the themes in the story activity
• Character map – 2 versions to differentiate
• Challenge vocabulary cards with matching definitions
• 30 Comprehension Questions
• Story Map - 2 versions
• 5 W’s and H
• Activities and Graphic Organizers for Important Events, Summarization, Sequencing, Cause and Effect, and Fact or Opinion
• Themes and Big Idea Word Lists and Graphic Organizers
• Character Traits Word Lists, Graphic Organizers
• How Duncan Changed Activity
• 6 Writing Activities
• A book review
• Writing a letter to the crayons - letter writing lesson and activity
• My Favorite Color is - opinion writing lesson and activity
• Feelings Activity
• Syllable Sort
• Parts of Speech Sort
• Compound Words matching

THE INVISIBLE BOY BOOK COMPANION:

• Vocabulary Cards and Matching Definitions
• Word Map
• Making Sentences
• What’s Going on In Your Head?
• Making Predictions
• 36 Comprehension Questions
• Fact and Opinion sort
• Story Map
• 5 W’s and H
• Important Events
• Summarization - SWBS summarization activity
• Sequencing activity - Beginning, Middle, and End
• Themes - Belonging, Empathy, Friendship, Kindness
• Character Traits - Character Maps, I Am Poems, Venn Diagrams
• How Penguin Changed Activity
• Analyzing a quote
• A Book Review
• Opinion Writing Activity
• Diary Entry Writing Prompt
• We Make A Good Pair
• The Me You Don't See

HOW TO USE THESE MATERIALS:

• Whole class
• Small group
• Morning Warm-Ups
• Social Skills or Guidance Lessons
• RTI

This BUNDLE is more than just a set of resources — it's a step towards building a more compassionate future, one student at a time.