The Invisible Boy

How to use The Invisible Boy Empathy Lesson:

★ Teacher Guide

This interactive read aloud for The Invisible Boy includes a teacher’s guide that outlines the empathy lesson. It provides an introduction to help prepare your students for their learning and set a purpose for the read aloud. It also includes important vocabulary words and the strands that the lesson covers.

★ Talking Points

There are higher level thinking questions and talking points to prompt student discussion. Each one has a page number so that you know exactly where in the story to stop!

These will guide students to deepen their understanding of developing empathy and respond in meaningful ways. These questions can be printed out on a one page guide or on sticky notes, which will allow you to place them right in the book!

★ Student Response

This empathy lesson also comes with a written response and activity sheet to really help your students connect with the text and build their knowledge on the social awareness skill. There are multiple response sheets that allow for differentiation. An answer key is also provided for your reference.

★ Craftivity

The Invisible Boy craftivity provides a hands-on, engaging component to help students practice the developing empathy skill. It helps connect the focus to the picture book and to students’ lives.

★ Task Cards

The task cards can be used a few different ways. the cards could be used orally as a whole class discussion or in small groups. Students could also respond to the task cards individually on the recording sheet that is included.

The task cards provide scenarios or thought-provoking questions to help students apply the SEL skill to their own life.

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Who is this social awareness resource for?

This resource is for classroom teachers who need a simple, yet effective way to integrate Social Emotional Learning into their day. This low prep resource is easy to implement, but can be used when teachers have time.

 

It is ideal to focus on one skill per week and there are 38 different interactive read alouds in the full bundle. That’s a whole year of Social Emotional interactive read alouds!

GRAB THE FULL BUNDLE OF SOCIAL SKILL READ ALOUDS HERE!

 

The interactive read aloud lesson plans for SEL are meaningful and engaging, yet they are simple and can be completed in a short amount of time.

 

What are other teachers saying about this empathy lesson?

 

• My students loved this resource. It went with The Invisible Boy story. I read the story first then I used some of the pages as an extension to my classroom guidance lesson. I talked about empathy and explained how Brian could feel invisible and how they would feel if they were in Brian’s shoes. – Ashley U.

 

• I absolutely loved this resource! The talking point questions facilitated a great conversation in my classroom. My class loved this book, as they had never read it before! The other activity resources are easily adaptable to my students’ academic level. The task cards serve as a great exit ticket or early finisher activity. Thank you!!!  – Keri R.

 

• I love how easy read alouds are with this resource. You’ve done the hard part and now I can focus on relationships, routines, and reading with my students. They were engaged and able to interact with the book so easily. The Invisible Boy has a different meaning in my classroom. I had students feel invisible and silent due to extreme behaviors taking my attention. This resource allowed my students to interact and feel seen and heard! Thank you. – Bethany M.

Keep your teaching colorful,

Sara ☺