The Voice Inside Your Head: teacher key

Feeling Good About Yourself, grade 5 edition, written for 5th grade. What you say to yourself, how you treat mistakes, and what you do for others all shape how you feel about yourself.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What do people who think abilities can grow tend to see setbacks as?
   • Chances to build new skills (answer)
   • Reasons to quit
   • Things to hide
2. What is self-compassion?
   • Being kind and understanding with yourself when you struggle (answer)
   • Never making a mistake
   • Winning every game
3. In the kindness study, what did the other students do instead of kind acts?
   • Slept more
   • Listed pleasant places they visited (answer)
   • Wrote thank-you letters
4. Why does gratitude help relationships?
   • It makes us notice how other people have supported us (answer)
   • It makes us win
   • It costs money
5. What does a regular bedtime help kids do?
   • Wake up early
   • Ease into a good night's sleep (answer)
   • Play a game
6. What does the word routine mean in a good sleep routine?
   • A prize
   • A loud alarm
   • Steps done the same way each day (answer)

Words

• gratitude: thankful noticing
• setbacks: bad turns
• routine: same steps daily
• belong: fit in