Right and Wrong Storytime — Good Choices Activity Kit (K–1)

About this resource

Stories let young children watch someone else make a choice and see what happens next. This right and wrong storytime kit pairs a read-aloud with puppets and decision cards, so kindergarten and first-grade students (Grades K–1) can practice spotting kind, honest choices. It is a Responsible Decision-Making lesson, and one of the SEL activities that work well as a read-aloud extension.

What students practice

• Explaining why a choice is right or wrong
• Noticing how a choice affects others
• Connecting a story lesson to their own day
• Suggesting what a character should say or do

What’s inside

• A teacher script with timed steps, about 30 minutes, and a flexible outline
• Story Summary Sheet: title, characters, key choice, consequence and moral
• Right and Wrong Decision Cards: 40 short actions to mark right or wrong, in two card sizes
• Story Reflection Worksheet with four draw-or-write prompts, in two versions
• Puppet Show Script Template and a Certificate of Completion; 30 pages

A look inside

• Teacher script: “When someone finds something that doesn’t belong to them, what should they do?”
• Story Reflection prompt: “What lesson did you learn from the story?”
• Puppet Show Script Template: title, characters, two scenes of dialogue and a narrator’s moral

How to use this right and wrong storytime kit

• Read a storybook with clear good and not-so-good choices, pausing at decision points to ask what the character should do
• Bring in a puppet that needs help with two scenes: a friend asks to play with its toy, and it finds something that isn’t its own
• Let children suggest what the puppet should say or do
• Close with a discussion that connects the story to real life and asks why the right choice is sometimes hard

Grade fit

The puppet scenes, the 40 short decision cards and the draw-or-write prompts are pitched at Grades K–1. For first graders, the puppet show template is a good extension.

Good to know

Bring your own storybook that shows clear good and not-so-good choices, plus a puppet or stuffed animal.

Pairs well with

For more story-based thinking, Story Solutions walks students through solving a character’s problem step by step, more making good choices activities.