Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe
Know and use the vocabulary of making decisions and keeping safe — choice, consequence, rule, safe, fair, honest, trusted adult, and right and wrong — and understand that naming these ideas clearly helps make better choices
Lesson
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“Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe means using decision and safety words clearly so choices are easier to talk about. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.”
Bring to the table
- Word cards: choice, consequence, rule, safe, fair, honest, trusted adult, right, wrong
- Simple scenario slips
Extra for the adult
Worked example. A choice leads to a consequence. A trusted adult helps when something feels unsafe. Fair and honest guide right and wrong.
Optional challenge. For Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe, use fair and honest in one sentence.
What to notice. Keep one parent note: words practised; scenario use; support used. This session samples vocabulary, not mastery of decision theory.
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Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe means using decision and safety words clearly so choices are easier to talk about. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes matching words to meanings, using two in a scenario, then checking one fresh word.
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Start practiceDecision and safety vocabulary practice
Use choice, consequence, safe, fair, and trusted adult.
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Ready Kids supports Vocabulary: making decisions and keeping safe. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Before you openAsk the learner one fact they learned and one question they still have.
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Check understanding
- Explain what 'consequence' means and give an example of a positive and a negative consequence of a choice
- Use 'responsible' and 'safe' correctly when talking about everyday decisions — e.g. 'The responsible choice is to tell an adult'
- Define 'rule' and 'fairness' and explain why rules exist using their own examples from school or home
“If your child faces a situation where they need to make a choice — like whether to tell the truth about something that went wrong — can they talk through what might happen using words like 'consequence' and 'fair'?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Language
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Responsible Decision-Making
- Age range
- Ages 5–8