Grade-wise story mapping
of /e/ Story of /e/ - Empathy
of /e/ Story of /e/ is mapped with Empathy for Pre year 1 - Life Skills Stories.
How this story builds empathy
This page links the story of /e/ Story of /e/ from the EAST Pre Year 1 books to the life skill Empathy. Teachers can use the story to start a short class talk, ask children how the characters showed this skill, and connect it to a real moment from their own day. Parents can do the same at home after reading the story together.
Story / Main Text
Explanation of life skills Empathy is about understanding another person’s point of view. Empathy is different from sympathy. Sympathy is someone is in pain, or someone has a strong feeling, and you try to connect with them. But Empathy is where you can step into their shoes, and you can feel as they feel. And so it’s stronger than just sympathy. Al Quran At-Taubah 9:128 There certainly has come to you a messenger from among yourselves. He is concerned by your suffering, anxious for your well-being, and gracious and merciful to the believers. HADITH Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) has always shown the greatest compassion. See example: “Awaking from a nap one afternoon, he found a small, sick cat fast asleep on the edge of his cloak. The Holly Prophet cut off his garment so that the cat could sleep undisturbed. Is that a man who would advocate the unnecessary slaughter of harmless beasts?” show sympathy to others, “The Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) taught, “especially to those who are weaker than you?” (Billzak Aladdin, The