💛 SELGrade 3Lesson 2
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Identify Personal Strengths

How to use: Download the PDF to print the worksheet. Then use this page to repeat activities and check answers.

Learning Objectives

  • 1Identify personal strengths across different categories
  • 2Tell the difference between things you do well now and things you are still growing in
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Mini Lesson

A strength is something you do well — a skill, a quality, or a habit that comes naturally to you or that you have practiced and built up. Everyone has strengths, and everyone has areas they are still growing in. Both are normal and both are valuable.

Types of personal strengths

  • Academic strengths — reading fast, solving math problems, remembering facts.
  • Social strengths — making friends easily, listening well, helping others.
  • Creative strengths — drawing, telling stories, building or designing things.
  • Character strengths — being kind, honest, patient, or determined.

"Still growing" is not a weakness

  • Something you are still growing in is a skill or quality you have not mastered yet — but you can, with effort and practice.
  • Recognizing what you are still growing in helps you set goals and ask for help.
  • Growth mindset says: "I can't do it yet — but I will."

How to spot your strengths

  • What do people thank you for or compliment you on?
  • What activities make time fly by because you enjoy them so much?
  • What have you worked hard at and improved in?
Four types of personal strengthsFour colored quadrants around a central My Strengths label: Academic (top left), Social (top right), Creative (bottom right), and Character (bottom left).Four Types of Personal StrengthsAcademicreading, math,remembering factsSociallistening, helping,making friendsCharacterkind, honest,patient, determinedCreativedrawing, building,storytellingMyStrengths
Four quadrants of personal strengths — Academic, Social, Character, and Creative — surrounding a "My Strengths" center.
Strength versus still growing comparisonTwo columns side by side. Left column labeled My Strength lists: comes naturally, feel confident, help others with it. Right column labeled Still Growing lists: takes effort, need practice, can improve with help.Strength vs. Still GrowingMy Strengthcomes naturallyfeel confidentcan help othersenjoy doing ite.g. "I am goodat listening."Still Growingtakes more effortneed more practicecan ask for helpwill improve in timee.g. "I am stillgrowing at math."
Two columns comparing "My Strength" (comes naturally, feel confident) with "Still Growing" (takes effort, need practice, can improve).
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Self-check: Can you name one strength you have right now and one area you are still growing in?

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Guided Practice

Draw a face showing a feeling from this lesson on your paper. Then use the Tracing Pad to practice the feeling words.

Tracing Pad

Tip: As you trace each word, think of one example of that strength or feeling in your own life.

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Exercises

Read each statement. Drag it into the correct bucket.

My Strength

Still Growing

1. What is a personal strength?

2. Which of the following is a character strength?

3. What does "still growing" mean about a skill?

4. Which of these is an example of a social strength?

5. Why is it useful to know what you are still growing in?

6. What does a growth mindset say about a skill that is hard for you?

7. Which of these is a creative strength?

8. How can noticing what people thank you for help you find a strength?

9. Is it normal to have both strengths and areas you are still growing in?

10. Which of these best describes an academic strength?

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Assessment

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