Relationship skills

Self-regulation

Working together

Morning Meeting

• If you use your morning meeting to build your classroom community, this mini graphic about compromising and working together can be a great conversation starter.

Whole Group Activity

• Another option is to read “My Way” as a class read-aloud. Once you’ve read and discussed the story together, have children act out the different parts.

Paired Text

• Use this comic after children have read the Paired Text article, “Could You Be a LEGO® Master?” Encourage children to point out connections between the articles.

Watch the Video (10 minutes)

• This video teaches children about the features of a comic, or graphic novel.
  
• After watching, draw the features of a comic on chart paper. The features in the video are panels, speech bubbles, and thought bubbles. See if children can tell you what each one is for.

Set a Purpose for Reading (5 minutes)

• Open your magazines to the story. Ask: What kind of story is this (a comic, or a graphic novel)? How do they know?
• Ask children if they can remember a time when they worked with someone. What happened? What did they do? Why is it important to compromise?
• Tell children they will read about two friends, Jill and Tom, who are having trouble working together. As they read, they can think about the problem and how Jill and Tom might find a solution.

• Model reading the dialogue with expression. Check comprehension as you read each panel. Children can also turn and talk to discuss what each picture tells them about the story and the characters.
• Then give children a chance to practice reading with fluency and expression. Choose volunteers for reading each part aloud. Encourage children to read with feeling! Repeat with new volunteers.
• Discuss the Talk It Out questions as a class. Ask children to share examples from their own lives as they make connections to how characters are feeling.

SEL Focus: Working Together (10 minutes)

• Use the Words for Working Together skills page to help children learn to cooperate.

SEL Focus: Working Together (10 minutes)

• Children can learn a new word, cooperate, and practice working together with the Let’s Cooperate skills page.