Vocabulary: understanding others
Know and use the key vocabulary for understanding others — empathy, perspective, kind, fair, community, similar, different, and care — and understand that these words describe real habits of thinking and feeling
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“Vocabulary: understanding others means using empathy and perspective words that describe real habits of thinking and feeling. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.”
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- Word cards: empathy, perspective, kind, fair, community, similar, different, care
- Two short people sketches
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Worked example. Empathy is trying to understand feelings. Perspective is seeing from someone’s side. Kind and fair are habits in a community.
Optional challenge. For Vocabulary: understanding others, use community in a sentence about helping.
What to notice. Keep one parent note: words matched; one empathy sentence; support used. This session samples social vocabulary, not mastery of sociology.
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Vocabulary: understanding others means using empathy and perspective words that describe real habits of thinking and feeling. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes matching words to habits, trying one empathy sentence, then checking a fresh word.
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Use empathy, perspective, kind, fair, and care.
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What is Mental Health?
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What is Mental Health? supports Vocabulary: understanding others. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Check understanding
- Use the word 'empathy' correctly and distinguish it from 'sympathy' — e.g. 'Empathy means I try to feel what they feel'
- Explain what 'perspective' and 'point of view' mean and demonstrate by describing how two people might see the same event differently
- Use words like 'community', 'belonging', and 'inclusion' accurately when talking about their school or neighbourhood
“When your child sees someone who seems sad or left out, can they describe what that person might be feeling using words like 'empathy' or 'perspective' — showing they're thinking about the other person, not just themselves?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Language
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Empathy & Social Awareness
- Age range
- Ages 5–8