Skills Building: Dare! A Story About Standing up to Bullying in Schools (3-5)

Pre- Reading Questions 

1. When is it important to speak up for others?
2. When it is important to speak up for yourself? 
3. Has there ever been a time when you felt pressure to be unkind to someone even though you knew it was wrong?
4. What is bullying? What can we do when we or someone we know is being bullied? 
5. Why is it sometimes hard to stand up to bullies?

Post- Reading Questions

1. Think of a time when you said something to stand up for someone else. How did it feel and what did you say? 
2. What did you learn from this book? How did it make you feel?
3. How did the two characters in the book feel when they decided to stand up to the bully? How did they feel before they stood up to her? 
4. Have you ever been in a situation like the characters in the book? What did you do? What could you do if that happened in the future?