Reframing Negative Thoughts
This worksheet helps 6th-grade students identify and reframe negative thoughts into more positive and constructive ones, promoting emotional well-being and resilience.
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Reframing Negative Thoughts
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet is about understanding and changing your thoughts.
1. What is a 'negative thought'?
A thought that makes you feel happy
A thought that makes you feel sad, angry, or worried
A thought about food
A thought that is true
2. What does 'reframing' a negative thought mean?
Ignoring the thought completely
Changing it into a more balanced or positive thought
Telling someone else about your negative thought
Writing the thought down in a journal
Fill in the blanks to describe what a negative thought feels like.
3. When I have a negative thought, I might feel , , or .
4. Negative thoughts can make it hard to or with others.
Look at the image below. Our brains are always thinking! Sometimes these thoughts can be negative. For each negative thought, write down a way to reframe it into a more positive or helpful thought.
5. Negative Thought: "I'm not good at anything."
Reframed Thought:
6. Negative Thought: "This is too hard, I'll never understand it."
Reframed Thought:
7. Negative Thought: "Everyone else is better than me."
Reframed Thought:
Decide if each statement is True or False.
8. It's impossible to change a negative thought once you have it.
True
False
9. Reframing thoughts can help you feel better and more confident.
True
False
10. Describe a time when you had a negative thought and how you tried (or could have tried) to reframe it. What was the outcome, or what do you think the outcome would be?