The Inside Story

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Susanna Palomares

Use these thought-provoking prompts to encourage your students to explore their feelings, thoughts, attitudes, values, doubts and dilemmas.  Through the process of reflection, introspection and then writing young people are able to enhance their self-understanding, clarify their values, develop coping skills and aid in the development of positive attitudes.

The Inside Story includes over 85 pages of engaging exercises in writing and drawing.  Use this reproducible book in its entirety, or choose selected pages to build insight and emotional literacy.

Created for use in grades 3 through 9, the topics and questions in this book encourage students to:

• develop verbal skills, reading comprehension, and written expression
• cultivate visual thinking and perceiving
• build self-awareness, insight, self-esteem and emotional intelligence
• enrich any subject area by drawing on students’ personal experiences
• help children express and clarify their feelings, thoughts, beliefs, and values

A great resource for educators, parents and youth leaders.

Table of Contents

Introduction

My Family History

• Brothers and sisters
• Family composition
• Ancestral background
• Family interdependence
• Designing a family crest
• A favorite family holiday
• Family rules

My Life Events

• Draw or write a self-portrait
• An early memory
• Things people said
• The best surprise ever
• A big or little hurt
• A happy time
• An angry moment and how it was resolved

My Friendships

• How I met a good friend
• Friends: alike and different
• Describing friends
• The end of a friendship
• Fighting with a friend
• The best time I’ve had with a friend

My Days in School

• Thoughts and feelings about school
• Best school experience
• Positives and negatives of school
• Personal changes during this school year

My Likes and Dislikes

• Thoughts about myself
• Things that cause comfort and discomfort
• Behavior toward people I like and dislike
• Feeling negative about someone
• Getting into trouble
• Responsible and irresponsible actions
• Words that describe me
• Things I appreciate about myself
• What I like and how I want to change

My Strengths and Weaknesses

• Doing something I thought I couldn’t do
• My strengths and how I use them
• Something I’d like to improve
• A word that describes me

My Life Right Now

• A picture of me
• Being alone and with a group
• Dreams and nightmares
• Feelings, thoughts, and behaviors
• Getting in touch with my body
• Caring for myself and others
• a BIG change
• Feeling insecure
• Feeling sad
• Fears and how to get past them
• Feeling and expressing anger
• A hurt caused by someone else
• A dialogue of positive and negative thoughts
• A dialogue between happy and sad parts
• Positive and negative feelings

My Values

• The mysteries of my life
• The best possible birthday present
• The animal I would be
• My favorite color
• My favorite song
• Giving life to a favorite toy
• Dialogue with a famous person
• Letter to Cinderella’s stepmother
• Letter to the President
• Someone I admire
• A peak experience
• Packing for a long journey
• Rules and more rules
• Something very special
• Any gift in the world
• A wise person
• The top 10

My Goals

• Short and long-range goals
• Imagining me at twenty-one
• Looking into the future
• Building the ideal me
• Something I really, really want
• On my own

Primary Subject Area – Self Understanding

Grades 3-9, 104 pages, 8-1/2 x 11, paperback, exercises, reproducibles