Bullying Prevention Month RACE Writing Passages | Grades 4–6

Help students build reading comprehension, written response, and social-emotional learning skills with these Bullying Prevention Month reading passages and RACE writing prompts for upper elementary students. This resource includes 10 engaging bullying prevention passages, each paired with a thoughtful RACE writing question that guides students to Restate, Answer, Cite Evidence, and Explain their thinking. The passages focus on kindness, empathy, inclusion, courage, digital citizenship, peer pressure, responsibility, and creating a positive school community.

What’s Included?

This resource includes:

• 10 original reading passages about bullying prevention

• 10 RACE writing prompts

• Upper elementary-friendly texts

• Passages under 150 words each

• Reading comprehension practice

• Text evidence practice

• Constructed-response writing practice

• Social-emotional learning themes

• Character education connections

• Opportunities to practice explaining evidence

• Topics connected to familiar U.S. school experiences

Topics Covered

Students explore meaningful situations involving:

• Welcoming new students

• Understanding the difference between joking and hurting others

• Speaking up when someone is being mistreated

• Responsible digital citizenship

• Respecting individual differences

• Taking responsibility and apologizing

• Handling peer pressure

• Including quiet or overlooked classmates

• Showing kindness and belonging

• Building a positive school community

Each passage encourages students to think beyond simply identifying bullying. Students consider how their choices affect others, how to respond respectfully, and how they can contribute to a safer and more inclusive classroom community.

Perfect For

Use these Bullying Prevention Month activities for:

• Bullying Prevention Month

• Anti-Bullying Week activities

• October school awareness activities

• Reading comprehension practice

• RACE writing practice

• Constructed response practice

• Text evidence activities

• SEL lessons

• Character education

• Morning work

• Bell ringers

• Independent practice

• Small-group instruction

• Writing centers

• Early finishers

• Homework

• Intervention

• Test preparation

• Classroom discussions

Why Teachers Will Love It

These RACE writing passages combine ELA practice with meaningful social-emotional topics. Instead of completing isolated writing exercises, students read short, accessible passages and respond to questions that require them to answer using evidence from the text and explain their thinking.

The passages are designed for upper elementary students in Grades 4–6 and can easily be incorporated into your reading, writing, SEL, or character education lessons.

Students practice important skills such as:

✓ Reading closely
✓ Identifying key ideas
✓ Citing text evidence
✓ Writing complete responses
✓ Explaining their reasoning
✓ Thinking about character and behavior
✓ Practicing empathy and respect
✓ Making responsible choices

Great for Bullying Prevention Month

Use this resource during Bullying Prevention Month to create meaningful opportunities for students to discuss kindness, respect, inclusion, courage, and responsible decision-making while strengthening essential ELA skills.

These passages can be used throughout the month as a daily reading and RACE writing activity, giving students repeated practice with evidence-based written responses while exploring important lessons about building a respectful school community.

Help students strengthen their writing skills while learning that their words, choices, and actions can make a difference.