Description

Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Close Reading Passages + Questions

Combine social and emotional learning (SEL) with reading comprehension using these 18 passages. Each passage depicts a scene with characters experiencing complex feelings and emotions that upper elementary students may face in their own lives. The passages require students to use evidence from the text in order to analyze character feelings and body language. Then, students must reflect on how they would solve the problem. With this resource, students are reading, finding text evidence, analyzing characters and emotions, problem-solving, and empathizing. Click here to see a full preview.

Included in this resource:

• 18 passages (both paper and digital on Google Slides)
• The questions on each passage fall under two categories: Analyze and Reflect
• The Analyze questions require students to describe how each character feels based on the things they say and their body language
• The Reflect questions require students to “THINK” by writing how they would solve the problem, and “FEEL” by sharing what they would say to the characters to make them feel better (empathy)

The passage themes include:

• academic anxiety
• feeling overwhelmed
• trying your best
• good sportsmanship
• staying focused
• accepting differences
• standing up for yourself
• standing up for others
• being compassionate
• making friends
• calming down
• anger
• hurt
• peer pressure
• death
• homelessness
• violence
• socioeconomic status