Social Emotional Learning Common Core Worksheets

Use this reflective writing worksheet to encourage a growth mindset in students and strengthen important social emotional skills!

Children build their understanding of synonyms in this SEL-meets-vocabulary worksheet.

Encourage students to explore the notion of identity with this reflective writing and drawing prompt!

Help your child make sense of their feelings by creating an emotions wheel. Students will reflect on a time when they have felt each of the emotions listed around the wheel, then they will create drawings to illustrate those times.

Use the Silly Stories: Mindfulness of Emotions worksheet to guide students to create a silly story about how their emotions come and go, just like the changing weather.

Help students make body-mind connections by creating an emotions body map! They'll use different colors to signal different emotions, then color in the parts of the body to show where they feel each emotion.

Get students thinking deeply about their personality traits with this engaging reflective writing prompt!

Children will go on a nature walk and observe their surroundings, then write a letter to nature, in this two-page writing and mindfulness worksheet.

Use the How to Use Kind Words worksheet to teach students the steps to take in using kind words with others, then have them practice while interacting with each other.

After reading The Way I Act by Steve Metzger, students can apply what they have learned about making healthy choices by choosing and completing two activities from this choice board.

Students read background information about May as Mental Health Awareness Month and then respond to reflective questions.

This social emotional learning resource is a great tool to open up discussion around mindfulness, such as how to recognize and manage certain kinds of emotions and different feeling words that can be used to describe emotional states.

Learners offer advice to a younger version of themselves in this engaging reflective writing activity.

Write a heartfelt letter to someone who has impacted your life with this SEL writing prompt for middle grades!

Use this bubble chart to brainstorm your favorite superhero's real strengths.

Children will select from a word bank of descriptive emotion words to write about their feelings, then use them to create a unique word search puzzle.

Build your students' emotional literacy with this handy emotion word bank! This resource provides students with visuals and a variety of emotion synonyms to increase their understanding of character traits in fictional text.

Foster self-awareness, gratitude, and stress-management skills with this social emotional worksheet. This three-page activity prompts children to reflect on the word "beauty" and compile a list of things they are grateful for in their life.

Use the Teaching Others to STOP worksheet to introduce students to the STOP mindfulness method, then have them creatively teach STOP to someone else.

Use the Mentors: Mindfulness of Anger worksheet to have students teach others how mindfulness can help them cope with anger.

With a tendency to focus on the negative, it's helpful to learn how to cultivate feelings of positivity, joy, and calmness. Children will practice seeing the bright side as a way to improve self-awareness, manage stress, and build social emotional skills.

Help students practice seeing and understanding through others' eyes by participating in scenarios that illustrate different points of view. Students will work in groups to understand and discuss the differing perspectives that arise in difficult situatio

After completing S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, allow students to connect to the theme of identity with this engaging reflection activity! 

In this social emotional learning worksheet geared toward second and third graders, students will reflect on their needs, what matters, and ways that they may ask or request something connected to their needs.

Use this worksheet to have students write an Acts of Kindness Letter, in which they will thank and appreciate a member of their school's community.

Help students tune into their emotions by writing their own haiku poem. First, kids will learn a bit about haikus and read a sample. Then, they'll brainstorm a list of words related to emotions before drafting their own emotions haiku.

With this social emotional learning worksheet, young learners will consider different scenarios and explore how making healthy choices makes them feel.

Use this chart to categorize your chosen superhero’s real and supernatural strengths.

Use The Strength of Community worksheet for students to reflect on their interests and talents, and to consider the ways their diversity creates an enriching community.

Use this worksheet to guide students to perform a random act of kindness, then reflect on their experience and how it felt to spread kindness to others.