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1. Perspective : Viewpoint

2. Toddlers : Infant
3. Prosocial : Helping

4. Aggression : Anger
5. Crucial : Important

6. Validate : Authenticate
7. Reinforce : Strengthen

A. Fill in the blanks.

1. Empathy is the quality of being in tune with the ______________ of others.
2. Empathy should be displayed with ______________ and courage.

3. Empathy can convert negativity into ______________ with ______________.

4. Empathy fosters positive student ______________.
5. Practicing ______________ will help you take the perspectives of other people

into account.

B. Answer the following.

1. What is empathy?

2. Write any three points why empathy is important in school.

3. Write any three ways you can practice empathy in the classroom.

4. Empathy isn’t the same as sympathy. Explain.

5. Write any five points about empathy from the poem.

A. Educational Game: This game teaches communicating emotions non-

verbally to a friend.

1. Take some cards and write some words of feelings on them.

2. Take turns drawing cards and enact the feeling without the use of words.

3. Other students will try to guess the feeling being enacted.

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