Friendship

6th Grade Library Plans

Topic: Finding Friends

Place name tags on the tables. This class has assigned seats.

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to describe the challenges of finding friends and give examples of how to overcome them.

Materials

• "Invisible Boy" book
• Chart paper and markers

Warm-up

• Ask students if they have ever felt lonely or have had difficulty making friends. Ask them if they've ever started a new school. What was it like trying to make connections with people?
• Discuss as a class.

Direct Instruction

• Read "Invisible Boy" to the class and stop at various points to discuss the characters and their relationships.
• Ask students what they think will happen next in the story and encourage them to make predictions.

Guided Practice

• Have students work in pairs to complete a worksheet on character traits for the "Invisible Boy". You may need to define the word adjective and discuss a few as a class before you have students work on the worksheet.
• Go over the answers as a class.

Independent Practice

• Students can make a quiet choice: Read, check out books, color, or do a word search.

Closure

Talk about what is means to be a good friend. What characters in the book showed characteristics of being a good friend?

Assessment

• Observe students during independent practice to assess their understanding of the topic.
• Collect and review their friendship charts or videos.
• Have students complete a written reflection on what they learned about friendship during the lesson.