Our Virtue Lesson About Consideration
A Unit Study to Help Young Catholics Learn About Being Considerate
The Lesson
This lesson celebrates the virtue of consideration and is intended to help Catholic kids practice and live their faith in a real way. It is designed to be used daily, over the course of a month. With a weekly core lesson, daily reinforcement with scripture discussions, prayer, and the incentive progress sheets, children learn quickly how to recognize and begin practicing the virtue of consideration. Additional worksheets and activities extend the learning fun.
Unit Summary
Grade Level: K-6
Age: 6-10
Focus: Virtue Lesson Unit Study
Theme: Consideration
Step 1. Download the Lesson Packet
This small packet contains the teacher info as well as the main lesson and activity sheets needed for students.
Step 2. Download the Support Materials
With a goal of training young learners to develop habits to form and live virtuous lives, we focus on the virtue of consideration. This unit study helps to meet this goal by incorporating a variety of fun and engaging components. Each is listed below along with additional support materials to accompany and extend each lesson component.
Aesop’s Fables Materials
Aesop’s Fables provide simple but effective use of short stories to teach morality.
This unit study incorporates the use of moral tales. These short fables by Aesop highlight the work of Milo Winter from 1919, and they are used in weeks two and three of this unit study. This resource has over-sized text and a color image, which makes it appealing to young readers. Excellent discussions can occur with such simple stories. Sometimes the stories selected can fit into other virtues as well as the one presented. Feel free to use them repeatedly.
Although most morals are relatively clear-cut, there are a few stories that require thought as to their selection and inclusion in this unit study. Sometimes it is because they provide a positive example of the highlighted virtue, other times it is because they are a negative or contrary example of the virtue. Having older learners come up with a reason for why the fable was selected is a great exercise and can even be turned into a simple writing assignment. Writing paper featuring the thematic image for this particular virtue is provided. For younger students, trace copywork reiterating the moral is offered in both print and cursive styles for reinforcement.
Download the Aesop Materials Below.
Teach Using Aesop's Fable of the Boys and the Frogs. Enjoy a printable version of this timeless fable from Aesop designed to help teach a lesson in virtuous behavior and morality. This resource has over-sized text and a color image, which make...
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Focus on the moral truth from Aesop's Fable of the Boys and the Frogs. Find two copywork sheets in this Aesop Copywork Set for the Boys and the Frogs. There is one to trace in cursive and the other in manuscript. A generous writing area has been...
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Aesop’s Fables Montessori Cards Set 1 for Kids Playing, reading and moral training don't usually go together, but they do in the case of our Aesop’s Fables Montessori Cards Set 1. Use these cards to help children explore, ponder, and remember...
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Teach Using Aesop's Fable of the Fox and the Stork. Enjoy a printable version of this timeless fable from Aesop designed to help teach a lesson in virtuous behavior and morality. This resource has over-sized text and a color image, which make it appealing...
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Focus on the moral truth from Aesop's Fable of the Fox and the Stork. Find two copywork sheets in this Aesop Copywork Set for the Fox and the Stork. There is one to trace in cursive and the other in manuscript. A generous writing area has been provided...
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Kids Can Have Fun Using the Aesop’s Fables Montessori Cards Set 7 Use these cards to help children explore, ponder, and remember all the great moral teachings from Aesop in The Aesop for Children, Illustrated by Milo Winter. Montessori cards...
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Scripture Suggestions for the Virtue of Consideration
“You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” – Matthew 5:14-16
“But the wisdom, that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation. And the fruit of justice is sown in peace, to them that make peace.” – James 3:17-18
“Walk with wisdom towards them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always in grace seasoned with salt: that you may know how you ought to answer every man.” – Colossians 4:5-6
Additional Passages:
Ezekiel 16:49-50
Matthew 5:14-16
James 3:17-18
Colossians 4:5-6
1 Peter 3:1-22
Titus 3:2
Philippians 2:3-4
1 Corinthians 10:24
The quotes and references provided above are taken from the Douay-Rheims Translation of the Holy Bible.
Ideas for Studying Scripture Using This Unit Study
Choose a favorite scripture passage about consideration from your own collection or the selection above to discuss with students. You may wish to use a passage for copywork or handwriting practice. Writing Paper is provided featuring the thematic image for this particular virtue.
Alternately, students may be encouraged to study about the virtue of consideration with a fun, hands-on activity F3 (Flip, Flap, Fold) Tab Booklet. Learners cut out tabbed pieces, arrange them in order, and staple to finish construction. Students can then write in the book. The scripture notation is written on the tabbed edge, and the body of the text is written on the piece. Children may copy a Bible verse presented by the teacher featuring this virtue, or they may give a narration of a favorite verse they may have studied previously.
This tabbed F3 piece can accommodate up to five different scripture passages. Versions are provided in black-and-white as well as color and feature the thematic image used throughout the unit study. Finished books can be glued into a notebook or blank F3 Folder.
Read our article with pictures on How to Assemble an F3 Bible Verse Piece.
Make Scripture Study About the Virtue of Consideration a Hands-On Activity with Our Bible Verse F3 Piece. This little F3 (Flip, Flap, Fold) Piece encourages Bible study about consideration. Learners cut out tabbed pieces, arrange them in order,...
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Writing Sheet Prompts Thoughts About Consideration. This writing sheet has just the right amount of cuteness to draw young writers to share their thoughts about consideration for example, putting the needs of others before our own desires, sacrificing...
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Reading Activities and The Book List
Select a book from the list below to read to or with your students to help them see some examples of this virtue in action. Each title incorporates or focuses on the virtue of consideration in some way – either in the theme, the plot, or through a specific character. Some characters will provide a positive example of the virtue while other characters seem to lack the virtue at times.
Don’t forget that picture books are great for any age group and present ideas very clearly. Children can use the “Reading Log Bookmark” included in this unit to help them keep track of their reading.
Use the “Dr. Virtue’s Discussion Questions” cards to help learners make connections between the stories and the virtue being studied. Older learners may enjoy being led in a book discussion using the question cards as prompts. Alternately, cards may be dispensed to students to answer on their own as a writing assignment or proof of learning.
Some learners may enjoy doing a book report or review a specific book. Use one of our fun templates below to guide young readers or new writers.
Look through the selection of reading suggestions below. Feel free to use other titles as well.
Picture Books That Can Teach About Consideration
The Selfish Crocodile by Faustin Charles
Manners Can Be Fun by Munro Leaf
How to Behave and Why by Munro Leaf
How to Speak Politely and Why by Munro Leaf
What Do You Say When a Monkey Acts This Way? by Jane Belk Moncure
How Leo Learned to Be King by Marcus Pfister
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh
The Secret Birthday by Rosemary Wells
Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Franklin’s Secret Club by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark
Franklin Is Bossy by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark
In Johnny Crow’s Garden by L. Leslie Brooke
Easier Chapter Books That Can Teach About Consideration
The Little Fir Tree by Margaret Wise Brown
A Bear Called Paddington by Michael Bond
Other Books That Can Teach About Consideration
The Book of Virtues by William J. Bennett (Self-Discipline Section)
Download the Additional Reading Aids Below.
Help Young Catholics to Learn About Consideration as They Track Their Reading Progress. Young readers can easily keep track of the books they read with this fun bookmark that reinforces the virtue of consideration. With each completed book or story,...
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Simple Book Review Helps Children Explore Reading and Sharing Their Opinions with Others Do you have a learner who likes giving their opinions about anything and everything? You could easily use that to your advantage with this simple book review....
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This Recipe Book Report Brings Smiles and Fun to Literature Exploration. Do you have a child who likes to cook? Are you looking for something completely different to use to pick apart your child's favorite read? Look no further. This fun Recipe...
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This Six-Page Blank Detailed Book Report Is Ready Fun for Beginning Readers and Writers. Many times when we think of book reports, we think of something stale, cut and dry. Perhaps we envision something full of research, or something, dare I...
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Saint Study
Saint study is important, which is why we have incorporated it into this unit study. Every saint uniquely encounters Christ. From simple living to doing pious works, shepherding the Church to evangelizing to the nations, the saints followed a path to our Lord. We, too, can follow a path to Christ by studying their lives. When kids learn about the holy heroes of the Faith, they can feel encouraged to grow in various virtues, including consideration.
Help children better understand the virtue of consideration by learning about St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children. The What Can St. Nicholas Teach Me About Consideration Worksheet is included in the lesson packet to help guide students on a simple study of this saint.
Below are some fun and creative ways to incorporate the study of St. Nicholas into this virtue lesson.
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