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Everyday Kindness and Care
PROCEDURALShow kindness and care towards others in simple everyday ways — comforting a friend who is upset, helping someone who has dropped their things, sharing without being asked, and saying kind words
Mastery Evidence
- Spontaneously offer comfort to someone who is visibly upset
- Help another person with a practical task without being asked
- Use kind words to encourage or cheer up someone who is struggling
Assessment Prompt
“If a younger child at school falls over in the playground, does [child] go over to help or comfort them without being told to by an adult?”
Prerequisites3
- Naming Basic EmotionssoftAges 5—7
- Vocabulary: understanding othershardAges 5—8
- Other People's Feelings and ThoughtssoftAges 5—7
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- Vocabulary: understanding others hard
Showing kindness meaningfully requires vocabulary for empathy, care, and community
- Other People's Feelings and Thoughts soft
Showing kindness benefits from knowing others have feelings
- Vocabulary: understanding others hard
Understanding that others have perspectives and feelings requires the vocabulary of empathy and perspective
Unlocks1
- Bystanders and UpstanderssoftAges 7—9