Friendships change over time

CONCEPTUAL

Personal & Social Development›Friendship & Cooperation|Ages 7—9|ID: mt_X7Tu94-a2m

Understand that friendships change over time — that it's normal for friends to drift apart or for new friendships to form — and develop strategies for making new friends and handling friendship changes without feeling like something is wrong with them

Mastery Evidence

Explain that friendships changing is normal and doesn't mean something is wrong
Describe a strategy for making new friends, such as joining a club or inviting someone to play
Talk about a friendship that changed and how they handled it

Assessment Prompt

“If [child]'s best friend starts spending more time with someone else, can they handle it without falling apart — understanding that friendships shift and they can make new friends too?”

Prerequisites2

Makes someone a good friend
hardAges 5—7
Resolving Disagreements with Friends
softAges 7—9

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Makes someone a good friend hard
Understanding friendship changes builds on knowing what makes a good friend
- Vocabulary: working with others soft
  Understanding what makes a good friend draws on cooperation and inclusion vocabulary
Resolving Disagreements with Friends soft
Navigating friendship changes benefits from conflict resolution skills
- Communication Vocabulary hard
  Resolving disagreements requires vocabulary for conflict, resolution, and compromise
- Makes someone a good friend hard
  Conflict resolution builds on understanding friendship qualities
  - Vocabulary: working with others soft
    Understanding what makes a good friend draws on cooperation and inclusion vocabulary
- Expressing Feelings with Words soft
  Resolving disagreements benefits from expressing feelings in words
  - Triggers and Causes of Feelings soft
    Expressing feelings in words benefits from understanding triggers
    - Feelings Change and Differ soft
      Identifying triggers benefits from knowing feelings change
      - Naming Basic Emotions soft
        Understanding feelings change benefits from naming basic emotions
  - Simple Calming Strategies soft
    Expressing feelings in words benefits from calming down first
    - Naming Basic Emotions soft
      Calming strategies benefit from naming the emotion you're trying to manage
    - Words for Big Feelings hard
      Calming strategies (calm, breathe, settle) rely on knowing this vocabulary to name and apply the techniques
- Group discussions soft
  Resolving disagreements through conversation requires the collaborative speaking skills — staying on topic, building on others' contributions — from Speaking & Listening
  - Listening and responding hard
    Listening and responding foundational to conversation
  - Exploring Ideas Through Talk soft
    Conversational skills provide foundation for evaluating viewpoints
    - Feeling of not understanding soft
      Using talk to explore ideas and speculate requires noticing what you don't yet understand — the comprehension-monitoring habit in a spoken register
      - Asking for Help hard
        Noticing confusion and acting on it requires already knowing that asking for help is a valid response to being stuck
- Listening to Others hard
  Resolving disagreements builds on listening to others
  - Listening and responding soft
    SEL listening skills build on curriculum speaking & listening foundations
  - Vocabulary: working with others hard
    Active listening practice requires understanding the vocabulary of listening, agreeing, and disagreeing respectfully

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