'Wonder' Lesson Plan, Worksheets & PowerPoint | Grades 5 - 6

Help students explore the power of kindness, empathy, and inclusion with this engaging lesson inspired by Wonder (2017). Designed for Grades 5–6, this ready-to-use resource combines social-emotional learning, literacy, and critical-thinking activities to encourage meaningful discussions about how our words and actions affect others.

Students examine different perspectives, explore the difference between being an upstander and a bystander, analyze character choices, and reflect on real-life situations involving kindness and acceptance. Through graph and chart activities, personal reflection tasks, character analysis, and discussion questions, students build empathy while strengthening reading, communication, and data interpretation skills.

A comprehensive teacher guide, student worksheets, an answer key, exercises in empathy and perspective-taking, upstander scenarios, graphing assignments, and a personal precept writing assignment are all included in the resource. It is effective for character education programs, literature studies, anti-bullying courses, SEL classes, classroom community building, and replacement arrangements.

Just print and teach; no preparation is needed. This lesson fosters compassion, respect, and inclusiveness while developing critical academic and life skills, regardless of whether students have read the book, seen the movie, or are unfamiliar with the narrative.