Blend Your Curriculum With Reading Comprehension & Resilience Worksheets

Help your upper elementary students build social-emotional skills while reinforcing their reading understanding with this engaging printable pack of Resilience Worksheets.

This resource includes two Resilience worksheets, each featuring a short story in which a student demonstrates resilience in facing a personal challenge. After reading each scenario, students are prompted to answer a series of analytical questions that inspire them to think critically about the character’s behavior, decisions, and how they demonstrated resilience.

Resilience Activity Sheets for SEL Lessons Across the Curriculum

These Resilience Activity Sheets are perfect for integrating social-emotional learning (SEL) into your literacy and character education lessons. With each worksheet, students will:

• Read relatable scenarios about peers solving problems with perseverance
• Identify examples of resilience in action
• Analyse the character’s choices and reflect on alternative ways to overcome obstacles
• Build skills in empathy, self-awareness, and problem-solving

The worksheets are designed for upper elementary learners with well-developed reading skills.

Download Your Resilience Worksheets for Students

This resource is available in both PDF and editable Google Slides format.  To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button and choose your preferred file type.

These Resilience worksheets for students are a versatile addition to discussions around overcoming challenges, developing a growth mindset, and making positive choices.

More Resources to Add to Your Resilience Toolkit

Pair these worksheets with additional SEL and character education resources to create a resilience toolkit for your classroom. We recommend checking out these resources before you go!

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Resilience or Not? Scenario Task Cards

Get students to explore real-life examples of resilience with this set of 16 scenario cards perfect for developing students' social-emotional skills.

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What Is Resilience? Teaching Slides

Teach your students the meaning of resilience with this age-appropriate slide deck perfect for your social-emotional learning lessons.

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Resilience or Not? Interactive Sorting Activity

Explore examples of resilience by playing this interactive sorting game perfect for your social-emotional learning lessons.