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1st grade · Social Studies · Unit 2 of 15

Respect & Inclusion

Sharing, turns and caring for places

What your child practices

Sharing, taking turns, listening, including others, and showing respect for people, belongings and the places we share.

Alabama Course of Study content standard: 1.1 · rights and responsibilities, and caring for the common good

How we explain it

Children can open this short lesson before they practice.

  1. Sharing means letting others use something too.
  2. Include everyone. Ask a new friend to teach you a word.
  3. Respect places: pick up litter, be gentle with plants.

Example: Everyone in class helps tidy up. What is this called? Everyone works together. Working together is cooperating. Answer: cooperating

Respect & Inclusion in Alabama

In the Alabama Course of Study, this is unit 2 of 15 in 1st grade Social Studies, after My Community and before Community Services.

Gradelings describes a child's practice on this unit as Beginning, Approaching, Meeting or Exceeding (Four practice steps). That reflects practice, not a report-card mark: the teacher decides the mark.

Source: Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE)

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Taking turns is…

    • a secret
    • a fair way to play
    • a way to win

  2. Question 2

    Which way of caring for the school garden is respectful?

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    • Pull up the flowers
    • Walk across the beds
    • Water the plants gently

  3. Question 3

    You want to say something. Another child is talking. You…

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    • interrupt
    • wait and listen first
    • talk louder

  4. Question 4

    You borrow a pencil. What do you do when you finish?

    • Hide it
    • Give it back
    • Keep it

  5. Question 5

    When a teacher speaks, you…

    • talk to a friend
    • hide in a corner
    • listen with your ears and eyes

  6. Question 6

    Everyone in class helps tidy up. What is this called?

    • cooperating
    • sleeping
    • fighting

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