My Qualities, My Identity - Year 1

What makes each person unique, and how can qualities help us belong? This unit uses original fictional cases to make personal qualities and identity concrete for Year 1 learners.

Children distinguish an observable action from appearance, connect actions with qualities, and recognise that a person's identity has many parts. They build explanations using interests, roles and contributions, describe others respectfully, practise useful next steps and transfer their thinking to a fresh situation.

The eight-lesson core contains all essential teaching and assessment. Lessons 9–10 are clearly labelled optional: one compares a familiar quality in another setting, and one notices contributions during a cooperative practical task. Each lesson has its own complete editable PPTX; no combined deck is needed.

What's included

Ten separate editable lesson presentations

• Lessons 1–10: 14 slides per file, 140 lesson slides.
• Each file contains a cover, complete teaching sequence and closing slide.
• Lessons 9–10 are optional.

One editable unit quiz

• 24 slides.
• Ten questions with separate reasoning slides.
• Supports formative checks during the core.

48-page Unit Plan PDF

• One clean contents page and 15 pages of teacher guidance.
• Two display pages.
• Eight fictional case cards across two pages.
• Three-page cooperative game: rules, a six-stop thinking path and eight challenge cards.
• Ten practice pages and ten matching red sample-answer pages; practice pages 9–10 are optional.
• Two assessment pages and two matching red sample-answer pages.
• One four-aspect identity explanation rubric.

212-page watermarked Preview PDF

• Clean Unit Plan contents page first.
• Remaining Unit Plan pages, all ten lesson presentations in numerical order, then the quiz.
• The teaching slides retain their widescreen geometry.

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Learning focus

• Name a quality and support it with an observable action.
• Recognise qualities, interests, roles and contributions as parts of identity.
• Explain personal or fictional qualities with action-based reasons.
• Describe another person's contribution respectfully.
• Recognise that qualities can develop and that one action does not describe a whole person.
• Apply the reasoning in a new setting.

Classroom use

The ten teacher plans each provide a 50-minute sequence of recall, modelling, guided rehearsal, application, feedback and reflection. Use lessons 1–8 as the essential route. Collect the identity web and explanation evidence in lessons 7–8; optional lessons add reinforcement rather than required assessment. Use quiz questions 1–8 before assessment, then reserve questions 9–10 and their reasoning slides for feedback after the lesson 8 conference.

Read cases and prompts aloud. Offer spoken responses, drawing, pointing, gestures, picture/symbol choices, a communication board/device, oral rehearsal or adult recording. Judge the action-to-quality explanation rather than handwriting, confidence, speech volume or eye contact.

Fictional characters provide a shared and private-safe starting point. Children may choose a comfortable private example, watch first, ask for help or pass. Personal and family disclosure is optional. The game is cooperative and does not rank classmates.

Teacher benefits

Complete independent lesson files support lesson-by-lesson teaching. Shared fictional cases reduce pressure to reveal personal details. Matching sample answers and teacher guidance make feedback concrete. The rubric recognises supported communication at every level and focuses on understanding, evidence, explanation and reflection.

Digital product and licence

Digital download; no physical product is supplied. PPTX lesson/quiz files are editable in compatible presentation software. The Unit Plan is PDF and Preview pages are watermarked. Use is subject to the Sukindi licence terms provided with purchase.