Online Friendship Check

This worksheet helps students in Grades 4, 5, and 6 build digital citizenship, tone interpretation, social awareness, respectful communication, and critical thinking skills through realistic online examples. Students read sample social media comments and decide whether each message is friendly or unfriendly, strengthening their understanding of how word choice, tone, and intent affect relationships in virtual spaces.

Skills Reinforced

• Respectful Online Communication (Grades 4-6): Identify positive and negative behaviors in digital interactions
• Interpreting Tone & Intent: Analyze how language choices communicate friendliness, sarcasm, or disrespect
• Author’s Purpose & Tone (ELA Connection): Determine the message behind written comments and their impact
• Virtual Relationship Skills: Understand how online words can support or harm friendships

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource: Designed by educators to support safe and responsible digital behavior
• Realistic Digital Examples: Uses familiar social media-style comments students can relate to
• Accessible Format: Simple classifications encourage discussion while supporting diverse learners
• Flexible Use: Ideal for digital citizenship lessons, SEL instruction, ELA analysis, counseling groups, or homeschool learning

This Online Friendship Check worksheet helps students become more thoughtful and responsible digital communicators. By practicing how to evaluate tone, intent, and respect in online messages, learners strengthen empathy, judgment, and digital awareness. Whether used in a classroom or homeschool setting, this printable resource supports meaningful conversations about kindness, respect, and relationship-building in online environments.

This worksheet is part of our Friendship Skills Worksheets Collection.