Seeing Someone Else's Point of View

Personal & Social DevelopmentEmpathy & Social AwarenessAges 7–9

Practise perspective-taking by imagining how someone else might feel in a given situation — using prompts like 'How would you feel if that happened to you?' and applying this when reading stories or during real interactions

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Infer possible character feelings from plot clues while distinguishing inference from knowledge.

Activity

Can follow a short story; understands might and can ask rather than assume.

Policy

Check activity readiness with accessible response; pause or supply prerequisite help when needed. Do not treat age range or graph position as attainment.

Adult Preparation

Open teaching first, then learner cards. Adult key stays separate. Read supplied content; do not invent a passage, scene or history image.

Stage Separation

Show and guided material are for teaching. Put them aside before recall; any passage, word bank or model used during the check must be recorded as support. Learner givens remain available for source-reading tasks.

Optional Objects

Only scrap paper, pencil or ordinary safe objects where the authored task explicitly uses them; oral/pointing alternatives allowed.

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What this lesson covers and its limits

These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.

partial: Practise perspective-taking by imagining how someone else might feel in a given situation — using prompts like 'How would you feel if that happened to you?' and applying this when reading stories or during real interactions
Bounded objective and prepared task only; all examples, universal claims and real-world behaviour are not established. No staged damage or real disagreement. Perspective-taking is not mind-reading and the fictional task does not prove real-world use.
opportunity: Describe how a character in a story feels and give reasons based on the plot
Complete plot and inference prompt supplied.
opportunity: Predict how another child would feel in a described scenario
Character scenario permits tentative prediction, not certainty.
partial: Use perspective-taking during a real disagreement to understand the other person's view
Real disagreement not manufactured or observed.
partial: When reading a story together, can {{name}} pause and explain how a character might be feeling and why — putting themselves in the character's shoes?
Prepared adapted check is not a complete equivalent to all source contexts, images or genuine independent habits. No staged damage or real disagreement. Perspective-taking is not mind-reading and the fictional task does not prove real-world use.

No staged damage or real disagreement. Perspective-taking is not mind-reading and the fictional task does not prove real-world use.

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Describe how a character in a story feels and give reasons based on the plot
Predict how another child would feel in a described scenario
Use perspective-taking during a real disagreement to understand the other person's view

“When reading a story together, can your child pause and explain how a character might be feeling and why — putting themselves in the character's shoes?”

Curriculum record

Type: Procedural
Subject: Personal & Social Development
Domain: Empathy & Social Awareness
Age range: Ages 7–9

Standards

ib-pyp-pspe:PSPE-ID-CU-P2-2ib-pyp-pspe:PSPE-ID-LO-P2-8