The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig SEL Lesson

In this resource, your students will listen to the story of The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig. For this SEL lesson, you will need invisible ink pens. I purchased them at Amazon here. In this companion lesson, you will read the story The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig. There also are videos of people reading this story out loud. After the story is read, you will divide students up into 5 groups. Each group will begin with a discussion question based on the book. Before the lesson you will write the discussion question on a piece of paper using invisible ink. The only thing written on the sheet in real ink is the # of the discussion question. For example at the top you will write #1, etc. You will give each group a piece of paper with the discussion question written in invisible ink. The group can work together to read the question or each member can take a turn reading it. Each student will get an answer sheet where they will write down their responses. After each group has rotated through all of the questions, you can take time to share about the answers. Then you will also have the opportunity to partner up each student with someone and they will write a secret compliment on the paper. This template is also a part of this resource. Lastly, if there is time, you can have each student fill out an exit ticket with 3 questions on it. The teacher will collect the answer sheets and the exit tickets at the end of the class. This is a very fun and engaging way for students to process this story and think about having empathy for others who may feel invisible. Discussions about how to help others feel visible are also recommended.