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Use best practices while reading aloud. Use questions while reading to help students recognize when a character is making an unsafe choice talking to a stranger or sharing personal information. Take a break between books with a stretching or breathing exercise. Step 2: Practice identifying safe online behavior Use the examples below to practice making cautious safe choices with students. Read the example and then have them use active signals to answer with safe (jazz hands) or not safe (arms crossed into an x) sharing. After students answer, ask a student or two to explain their answer. Say: Let’s practice together. I’m going to read an example out loud. Your job is to decide if it is an example of safe or not safe online behavior. If you think it’s safe do this (show action). If you think it’s not safe do this (show action). Safe Online Behavior: ●​ You send your best friend from school a funny video about animals. ●​ You deny a friend request on Roblox from someone you haven’t met or played with before. ●​ You open an email from your teacher. ●​ You message your cousin on Fortnite with a party invite. Unsafe Online Behavior: ●​ You put your phone number into a new website. ●​ You mention your school by name while playing Minecraft with kids you haven’t met in real life. ●​ You post a TikTok of yourself in front of your house without parent permission. ●​ You accept a friend request from someone you haven’t met in real life. Say: Today we learned to be cautious about who we talk to and what information we share online. That’s one way we can be safe digital citizens. Silently ask and answer to yourself, do I know how to be cautious and safe online? Review “I can” statements and ask students for thumbs up or thumbs down if they think they mastered today’s learning. Dismiss for circulation. READER’S ADVISORY, CIRCULATION PROCEDURES, & DISMISSAL

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