Upstanding Words
When you practice new words with a child, you help them learn the words that they’ll need to express their big ideas. Here are some words you can practice related to “upstanding.” Before you start: Please don’t make flash cards with this list! Try incorporating the words into your conversations with your child or students … or look for them in the books you read together.
- Act – to take action
- Appreciate – to recognize the worth/value of something
- Cooperate – to work together
- Change – to make something different
- Culture – the way of life for a certain group of people
- Empathy – to understand and share the feelings of someone else
- Exclude – to leave out
- Fair – without favoring anyone or anything
- Friend – someone who you like and who likes you back
- Goal – something that you decide that you want and work hard to achieve
- Helpful – giving or ready to give help
- Include – to invite someone else to share in an activity or privilege
- Invite – to request someone’s presence
- Join – to bring together
- Kindness – the quality/state of being kind (sympathetic or helpful nature)
- Listen – to hear something with thoughtful attention
- Problem – a situation that prevents you from achieving something
- Race – group of people with similar physical traits passed down through generations
- Respect – to honor or be considerate of someone or something
- Satisfied – happy or pleased with something
- Share – to have in common or use together
- Solve – to find the answer
- Support – to hold up or assist
- Take turns – to do something one after another in succession
- Teamwork – the equal work of individuals in a group towards a common goal
- Value – to rate highly
- Welcome – a kind and hospitable reception