Resolving Disagreements with Friends
Resolve simple disagreements with peers by talking it through — explaining how they feel, listening to the other person's side, and finding a compromise or solution that both can accept
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Set out your lesson
Work toward a solution both people can accept.
Ask the learner to explain one prerequisite idea before starting. If uncertain, revisit it; graph order is not learner readiness.
Check readiness rather than assuming source graph order establishes attainment.
Use invented disagreement cards; no need to revisit a real conflict. Stop if role-play feels uncomfortable.
Use the supplied stage cards on screen or scrap paper; adult key stays separate.
Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.
What this lesson covers and its limits
These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.
- partial: Resolve simple disagreements with peers by talking it through — explaining how they feel, listening to the other person's side, and finding a compromise or solution that both can accept
Bounded objective: Work toward a solution both people can accept. Rehearsal only; no actual peer-resolution attainment.
- partial: Explain their own point of view calmly during a disagreement
Calm point-of-view expression rehearsed.
- partial: Listen to the other person's perspective without interrupting
Listening and restating rehearsed; real peer behaviour unobserved.
- partial: Suggest a compromise or solution that addresses both sides
Mutually acceptable game options proposed; not forced resolution.
- partial: If {{name}} and a friend disagree about which game to play at break time, can they talk it through and find a compromise — rather than one person always getting their way or the argument escalating?
Try offers new-scenario-role-play for the bounded objective; it does not establish every part of the source assessment. Rehearsal only; no actual peer-resolution attainment.
Rehearsal only; no actual peer-resolution attainment.
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Check understanding
- Explain their own point of view calmly during a disagreement
- Listen to the other person's perspective without interrupting
- Suggest a compromise or solution that addresses both sides
“If your child and a friend disagree about which game to play at break time, can they talk it through and find a compromise — rather than one person always getting their way or the argument escalating?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Procedural
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Friendship & Cooperation
- Age range
- Ages 7–9
Standards