Fourth graders learn that keeping your word is how people come to trust you, and walk through the steps of making and keeping a promise the right way, in order.
Students will be able to…
Keep a promise and people learn they can count on you; break one and that trust chips away. What are the steps to making a promise you can truly keep?
Project this and put the steps of making and keeping a promise in order — tap each one from thinking first to following through.
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When you promise something and keep it, people learn they can count on you. Break a promise and that trust chips away. So what are the steps to making a promise you can actually keep?
Students put the promise-keeping steps in order.
Students test a promise before making it.
Students plan to keep a promise.
Students reflect on promises.
Aligned to the CASEL Framework for Social and Emotional Learning across its five core competencies.
Consider whether you can follow through before you commit.
Follow through on commitments and take responsibility.
Build trust by keeping your word to others.
Remember and act on a commitment over time.
Preview the three formative checks. Tap “Sample answer” to see what mastery looks like — hide them before you print for students.
Have students write one promise they can keep, list the steps to follow through, and say what to do if plans change, so keeping their word becomes a habit. A printable keeping-promises worksheet is in the Social-Emotional Learning library.
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