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Expected and Unexpected Behaviors Cut-And-Paste Worksheets

Students cut out classroom-behavior phrases, such as raising a hand or yelling across the room, and sort each one under an Expected or Unexpected column.
Grades
Grades 1–3, Elementary
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Updated Jul 17, 2023

Subject
Special Resources, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Life Skills
Topic
social-emotional learning, expected behaviors
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Expected and Unexpected Behaviors Cut-and-Paste Worksheets

Introducing a practical teaching tool, developed for educators with a focus on social-emotional learning. The Expected and Unexpected Behaviors Cut-and-Paste worksheets will become an essential part of your resource arsenal.

The Functionality:
  • Focusing on expected and unexpected behaviors in the classroom environment.
  • Promoting beneficial discussions where students deliberate upon various scenarios that could lead to unexpected behaviors.
  • Stimulating students to reflect upon their own behavior patterns.

The most advantageous feature of these worksheets is their simplicity and functionality. No additional prep work - just print and use!

Incorporation in Lessons:

This resource can be incorporated at the beginning of the school term or during lessons about respect. Given its versatility, it can extend beyond these specific situations as well!

Potential Integration Scenarios:
  • Individual counseling sessions
  • Small group counseling sessions
  • Morning meetings
  • An extension activity post emotional regulation lessons

This product proves extremely helpful when dealing with students from grade 1 through grade 3 who often have large feelings leading to unwise decisions despite their age .

Versatility in Academic Circumstances:

Crafted keeping varied academic needs in mind, this PDF is versatile across multiple domains within Special Resources like Social Emotional Learning and Life Skills seamlessly. Especially useful for public school teachers or homeschoolers due to its universal applicability!

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Students identify whether a specific classroom behavior meets or does not meet classroom expectations.

  • Students sort roughly 30 behavior phrases into Expected and Unexpected categories by physically cutting and pasting them.

Teaching tips

  • Have students cut apart all the behavior phrases on a sheet before sorting, since the phrases are printed scattered across the page rather than pre-grouped by category.

  • Discuss a few phrases as a class first, such as 'raising my hand to ask a question' versus 'yelling across the classroom,' to model the kind of reasoning the sort requires before students work independently.

  • Use one sheet per session across three sittings rather than assigning all three at once, since each sheet already contains around ten behaviors to cut and sort.

Skills covered

  • Behavior categorization — students judge whether a specific classroom action, such as 'refusing to do work' or 'washing my hands after using the bathroom,' is expected or unexpected.

  • Fine-motor cutting and pasting — students cut out individual behavior phrases and paste each one under the correct column.

  • Self-monitoring vocabulary — students build a working vocabulary of concrete behavior descriptions tied to classroom expectations.

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Core concepts

  • Expected vs. unexpected behavior

  • Classroom expectations

  • Social-emotional learning

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