Relationship Skills Teaching Resources
Help students build their relationship skills this school year with activities, games and more for your SEL lesson plans.
This collection of primary school teaching resources was created by the expert teachers of Teach Starter for teachers like you to help students build the skills they need to manage relationships with classmates and school staff, as well as those important friendships, family bonds and more out in the real world.
Set your students up for success with team-building activities that promote collaboration and provide opportunities for your students to work together, communicate effectively and solve problems as a team. Explore friendship activities that explore how to be a good friend. Browse printable games that teach students how to resolve conflicts with friends and teammates and a whole lot more.
Are you new to teaching relationship skills, or maybe you're just looking for fresh ideas to help your students manage relationships in your classroom and their lives? Read on for a primer from our teacher team!
What Are Relationship Skills?
We're going to start simple here, but bear with us! When it comes to teaching anything, it helps to step back and look at what's at the heart of the topic.
Relationship skills are the abilities and behaviours that enable our students (and ourselves!) to interact effectively with others, build and maintain positive relationships and navigate social situations successfully.
Simple enough, right? Like much of the SEL curriculum, there are a variety of 'skills' that are intertwined here, but these are the core concepts our teacher team considers part of relationship skills:
- Communication
- Friendship
- Empathy
- Cooperation
- Conflict resolution
- Problem-solving
Of course, these will tie back to other topics within SEL. For example, it takes social awareness to show empathy, and it takes decision-making skills to resolve conflict.
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I Can Be Cooperative - Social Skills Sort
Practise personal and social skills to cooperate and interact respectfully with others with an engaging sorting activity.
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Friendship Fun! – Board Game
Discuss characteristics of healthy friendships as well as how to repair relationships with a fun and engaging board game.
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Cooperation Cause and Effect Worksheet
Discover the effects of uncooperative behaviour with a cause-and-effect worksheet.
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What is Cooperation? Cut and Paste Worksheet
Explore the difference between cooperative and non-cooperative behaviour with this cut-and-paste worksheet.
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Cooperation Word Search
Review vocabulary and boost your students’ cooperative interaction skills with a word search worksheet.
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Grow a Friendship Garden – Friendship Activities
Encourage students to make a friendship garden grow with this activity bundle that includes friendship worksheets, writing templates, craft templates and scenario cards.
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What Good Friends Do – Differentiated Friendship Worksheets
Sort verbs according to if they are friendly or unfriendly interactions with this friendship worksheet.
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Friendship Writing Prompts
Encourage positive relationships by using our friendship writing prompts in your classroom.
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How to Be a Good Friend Poster
Use this poster to teach your students how to be a good friend to others.
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Is It Cooperative? Sorting Activity
Explore the difference between cooperative and non-cooperative behaviour with a sorting activity.
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What is Cooperation? SEL Accordion Book
Engage your students in identifying cooperative and non-cooperative behaviours with a printable social-emotional learning accordion book.
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Cooperation Tessellation Art Project
Engage your students in practising the art of cooperation by having them create a collaborative tessellation project.
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Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like - Cooperation Anchor Charts
Teach your students what cooperation looks, feels, and sounds like with a set of printable posters.
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Five Finger Forgiveness – Poster and Writing Activity
Teach your students how to forgive others in order to keep and maintain relationships with this poster and writing prompt.
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Forgiving Friends – Social Emotional Learning Activities
Use these social emotional learning activities to encourage students to maintain and repair friendships by forgiving others.
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Bullying Role Play Cards
Equip students with anti-bullying strategies with printable role play cards that will help them recognise and respond to different types of bullying.
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Cooperation Paper Chain
Work as a team to create a paper chain to serve as a reminder of the importance of cooperation.
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My Cooperation Sticker Chart
Promote and reward cooperative behaviour with a pack of printable cooperation sticker charts.
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I Can Show Cooperation Mini Workbook
Help your students understand ways to show cooperation with a printable mini workbook.
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Cooperation Quilt Template
Promote cooperative behaviour amongst your students by engaging them in creating a collaborative Cooperation Quilt project.
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Cooperation Station - SEL & Character Education Craft
Make your classroom a better “space” with cooperative learning and a fun Cooperation Station craft!
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Ways to Show Cooperation Poster and Worksheet
Learn ways to show cooperation with a printable poster and accompanying worksheet pack.
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Cooperation Word Splash and Acrostic Poem
Discuss cooperation with your students and write an acrostic poem wih a printable word splash worksheet and poem template.
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Cooperation Certificate - Good Character Award Template
Celebrate your students' cooperative behaviour by awarding them a personalized Cooperation Award.
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My Forgiveness Journal – SEL Worksheets
Teach students about the importance of forgiving others with this printable forgiveness journal.