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Helping Hands and Paws: teacher key

Kindness, grade 1 edition, written for 1st grade. Toddlers, chimps and rats help others, and nobody asks them to. Meet some helpers.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

  1. Who helped a grown-up they never met?
    • Toddlers (answer)
    • Cats
    • Fish
  2. What did the free rat open?
    • A box
    • A trap door (answer)
    • A book
  3. What did rats share with a freed rat?
    • Chocolate chips (answer)
    • Socks
    • Bones
  4. What is empathy?
    • Sharing what another feels (answer)
    • Running fast
    • Eating lunch
  5. What can doing something kind do?
    • Make you hungry
    • Make you feel happier (answer)
    • Make you tall

Words

  • empathy: sharing feelings
  • toddlers: very young children
  • chimps: apes