Polite vs. Impolite Behavior

This worksheet helps students in Grades 1, 2, and 3 build social awareness by identifying polite and impolite behaviors in everyday situations. Through reading, decision-making, and short writing, students practice respectful communication, appropriate choices, emotional awareness, and understanding how actions affect others.

Learning Goals

• Social Awareness Skills (Grades 1-3) – Students recognize polite versus impolite behavior in common school and social situations.
• Respectful Communication – Learners explore manners, kindness, tone of voice, and appropriate responses.
• Decision-Making Practice – Students evaluate actions and consider how behavior impacts peers and adults.
• Explanatory Writing – Students choose one example and explain their reasoning in a complete sentence.

Instructional Benefits

• Teacher-Created Resource – Designed by educators with classroom-tested social-emotional learning strategies.
• Easy to Implement – Works well for whole-group lessons, small groups, independent work, or morning meetings.
• Writing Integration – Combines behavior identification with sentence-level writing practice.
• Supports Diverse Learners – Clear language and familiar scenarios make it accessible for a wide range of students.
• Low-Prep Format – Print-and-go worksheet with straightforward directions.

This polite versus impolite behavior worksheet helps students strengthen social skills, self-awareness, respectful behavior, and written expression. By practicing real-life scenarios, learners develop empathy, accountability, and positive decision-making habits that support a healthy classroom environment. Whether used in an elementary classroom, counseling group, or homeschool setting, this resource reinforces everyday manners, emotional understanding, and clear communication in a meaningful and age-appropriate way.

This worksheet is part of our Manners and Politeness Worksheets collection.