Social emotional learning is the foundation of a successful classroom by creating an environment of inclusion and respect.
A teacher’s guide to teaching social-emotional learning in the classroom. This guide has articles, children's book suggestions, videos, and a program filled with lessons and activities.
10 x fully resourced, highly-rated Character Education lesson packs (in 9 packs - one contains two lessons). 1. Aspiration 2. Communication + Team Work Skills (double lesson) 3. Emotional Literacy: Self Awareness 4. Wants vs Needs 5. Growth Mindset 6. Peer Pressure 7. Resilience 8. Fake News + Critical Thinking 9. Self Confidence + Achieving Goals All 10 lesson packs are complete with at least one hour-long powerpoint, accompanying differentiated worksheets, clip links with questions, plenaries, clear objectives and starters. All are well differentiated to three levels throughout to enable clear evidence of progress for all students. These lessons have been selected to be in this bundle as they all heavily foster a sense of morality and building good, positive character traits in students. Many more inexpensive and free resources at my store and at my website: www.ecpublishing.co.uk
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School counseling activities using the materials in your office. Dominoes are a great way to encourage conversations about kindness, resilience, choices. You can also practice social skills such as teamwork and cooperation with dominoes in school counseling.
Use this series of books to help children learn, understand, and practice basic social and emotional skills. Start engaging conversations with your child or students, using the books to guide questions and conversation. Each book contains real-life situations, diversity of characters, and concrete examples to themes. Set of 6 paperback books have 40 pages each.
How Do You Feel Journal Paper: Over 50 writing prompt pages to help students understand, label, and express their emotions. This journal paper asks students to "Write about a time you felt _____." Let students choose the feeling they'd like to write about. Keep the writing in a folder and then staple into a booklet when finished. These could be used as social emotional learning bell ringers or a writing center activity. Please check out the Preview. It includes the entire file at a lower resolution so you can see exactly what you are getting. Why is Emotional Literacy Important? In order to develop social skills, children must first be able to read emotional cues in themselves and others. Once they can recognize, label, and understand their feelings, they can learn to calm themselves, control impulses, and self-advocate (ask for help or for a break). They can learn to interpret the cause of others’ emotions and the intent behind actions. Without these skills, children often interpret the behavior of others as intentionally hurtful and may act out in ways that lead to social isolation. Being able to sense and understand the feelings of others is an important prerequisite to building positive relationships. To Pin this for future reference, click HERE This writing paper is also included in the Managing Behaviors and Emotions Kit. By buying the entire kit you’ll save 35% off the price of buying each item separately. **Follow My Store to Save 50% off New Products During the First 48 Hours**
Nurture empathy and help your students learn how to be a good friend with these simple questions. As you come across scenarios in books and life that prompt a compassionate response, refer to these posters and bookmarks to guide your teaching moments. With practice, students' emotional intelligenc...
Use books to teach socials skills such as problem solving sharing, friendship, conflict resolution is so important in the primary classroom.
Social and emotional skills are foundational for kids to be successful in and out of the classroom. They involve everything: having a firm grasp of our values, recognizing our strengths and challenges, understanding social situations, developing strong relationships with others, managing our emotion
Launch classroom conversations about identity, grief, perseverance, kindness, and more.
It's a great help to have books about feelings and emotions handy in the classroom to help lead discussions when conflicts arise. A big list of great books!
My Feelings Bingo Cards Emotions Bingo Matching Game Face Picture Identification My Feelings Bingo Game – a fun and easy emotions matching game for students learning to identify and label emotions. Each card shows different pictures of faces to help children recognize and name feelings. Increase emotional intelligence and vocabulary while playing a game kids love. There are two versions of the game in this file: one has 15 emotions for grades K-1 the other has 24 emotions for grades 2-3 There are 10 different Bingo cards for each version (up to 10 players). Please check out the Preview. To Pin this for future reference, click HERE Why is Emotional Literacy Important? In order to develop social skills, children must first be able to read emotional cues in themselves and others. Once they can recognize, label, and understand their feelings, they can learn to calm themselves, control impulses, and self-advocate (ask for help or for a break). They can learn to interpret the cause of others’ emotions and the intent behind actions. Without these skills, children often interpret the behavior of others as intentionally hurtful and may act out in ways that lead to social isolation. Being able to sense and understand the feelings of others is an important prerequisite to building positive relationships. These games are also included in the Managing Behaviors and Emotions Kit. By buying the entire kit you’ll save 35% off the price of buying each item separately. **Follow My Store to Save 50% off New Products During the First 48 Hours**
This emotional intelligence packet includes coping skills posters that help students learn about managing and expressing emotions. It also has puzzles that match emotions to coping thoughts, an “I statement” poster, and a letter to parents. These materials are great tools for teaching students how to cope with their emotions in the classroom. Each emotion is paired with a way for students to frame their thoughts or self-advocate. Please check out the Preview. Includes: ★ 16 posters (each is available in portrait, landscape, color, B/W, large, small) ★ 24 puzzles matching an emotion to a coping thought or strategy ★ Student booklet to color and read (half-sheet size) ★ Sheets for brainstorming more coping strategies ★ Letter to parents ★ “I” statement poster Why is Emotional Literacy Important? In order to develop social skills, children must first be able to read emotional cues in themselves and others. Once they can recognize, label, and understand their feelings, they can learn to calm themselves, control impulses, and self-advocate (ask for help or for a break). They can learn to interpret the cause of others’ emotions and the intent behind actions. Without these skills, children often interpret the behavior of others as intentionally hurtful and may act out in ways that lead to social isolation. Being able to sense and understand the feelings of others is an important prerequisite to building positive relationships. To Pin this for future reference, click HERE These posters are also included in the Managing Behaviors and Emotions Kit. By buying the entire kit you’ll save 35% off the price of buying each item separately. **Follow My Store to Save 50% off New Products During the First 48 Hours**
Perseverance and especially passion may sound unteachable but they aren’t. It just takes time and consistency. Repeat the following activities with your child to help them develop their inner grittiness, putting them on the path to happiness and success.
I don't know about you, but my kids love the Disney Pixar movie Inside Out. It is such a fun story, and I really enjoyed the whole concept of "which emotion is at the control panel right now?" It has become more than just a fun movie for our family, too, as we've begun helping our kids identify their emotions using the characters Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, Anger, and Surprise (Bing Bong!). One way we've been doing this is through a chart I've created. I found this image from lifehacker.com that clearly categorizes most emotions under each of the above categories. I then transferred the emotions to a homemade chart I made using images from a Google search. Here's what I came up with. You can download a copy here. I printed the lifehacker chart on the back of the page and laminated the sheet. So now, when my kids are having difficulty expressing their emotions, we can go to the chart and work through how they're feeling until we have identified it. It has helped with overall communication and lessened the number of breakdowns because we can calmly point to pictures instead of yell talk through it. It has dramatically increased the peace in our home, which is never a bad thing. I hope that you are able to use this as a tool in your home or classroom as a way to help your children identify their emotions.
6 Dr.Seuss Books teaching kids social skills, such as sympathy, standing up for self, accepting and believing oneself.
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Read your kids stories about characters who find the courage, the strength, the resilience, and the bravery to bounce back when life gets tough.
Over a dozen great books about resilience for kids in this book list from No Time For Flash Cards. Resilience for kids is vital, these books can help.
Studies show that sustained and well-integrated social and emotional learning (SEL) engages students and improves achievement. Explore classroom practices that make up the most effective SEL programs.
Readers With Character is a collection of Social & Emotional Learning / Character Education Lessons for the general education classroom teacher. Digital menu for distance learning included. ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ HOW ARE THESE LESSONS DIFFERENT FROM OTHER SEL/CHARACTER ED LESSONS? ⇨ Each weekly unit focuses on ONE Social/Emotional/Character 'goal' so your students have time to digest and understand the message. ⇨ Each weekly focus is based upon one mentor text that is read on Monday, giving students a frame of reference and schema about the focus of the week in a kid-friendly and relateable way. ⇨ Each daily lesson is designed to take only 15 minutes of class time, making it manageable for the busy classroom teacher. ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS RESOURCE? This resource is a ONE WEEK unit lasting 5 days/15 minutes per day. [CLICK HERE for the 20 week bundle . CLICK HERE for the 40 week bundle.] Focus of the Week: We are digital citizens. Mentor Text of the Week: The Technology Tail by Julia Cook Book Overview: This story is about a girl who learns about her technology tail. Everything she posts online or texts goes on her technology tail either as a present or as a bruise or hole. Things like sharing private information will give a hole, and the hole in her tail doesn’t EVER go away! Keyboard courage can happen when people think that they can be mean to people online without having consequences, but that just isn’t true because there is always a consequence on your technology tail. Through this story, we can help our students understand the permanence of what they post online, the positive and negative consequences of their typed words, and give them a strategy to use as they try to decide what things to post and what not to post. ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ YOUR WEEK USING THIS UNIT WILL GO A LITTLE LIKE THIS... ⇨ Monday: Students will listen to the read aloud (you, if you own the book -OR- find a YouTube reading!). Question and discussion prompts included. ⇨ Tuesday: Students will engage with you in a classroom meeting where you will remind students of the focus, and begin to generalize the story so it can apply to your focus. Students will draw and/or write their understanding of the focus of the week in their journals. ⇨ Wednesday: Students will view a video clip. Then, another community building classroom meeting will be held to talk about how the video clip relates to the focus of the week. ⇨ Thursday: Students will engage in an activity to reinforce the focus of the week. Download the preview for a look at this week's activity! ⇨ Friday: Students will draw and/or write about their new learning by completing prompts in their journal. Then, students will take their journals home and share the ‘Home Connection’ with their families. *Detailed lesson plans are provided for each day! Bonus Materials Included: ★ Digital Citizenship Bulletin Board Pieces ★ What to Share Poster ★ What Not to Share Poster DIGITAL MENU One-page PDF that includes links to the following: Link to video read-aloud of the book Link to video of the week Google Slides link to weekly journal Google Slides link to Home Connection Google slides link to classroom visuals Google Slides link to 5 smartphone templates ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ WHAT ARE OTHER TEACHERS SAYING ABOUT 'READERS WITH CHARACTER'? "I don't know where to begin... This has been an invaluable resource for me as I rebuild classroom community mid year. I have purchased most of the books now because I want my kids to be able to have their hands on them regularly and not just while I have them checked out from the library the week we're covering it. My third graders are applying these character lessons and are taking them to heart. My only regret is not purchasing it sooner!" -Cassandra "This has been so helpful in my class so far this year. My students enjoy the lessons built around the books and has been a great way to enhance our classroom climate. Thank you for such a wonderful product. I am looking forward to using the rest of the lessons as the year goes on!" -Siobahn "I honestly can't say enough praise about this resource. It has changed the climate of my classroom!!!" -Sarah ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ WHO IS THIS RESOURCE FOR? • Classroom teachers looking for a low prep, quick, and effective way to integrate social and emotional learning into their classroom routine. ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ SAVE AT LEAST 20% WITH BUNDLES! This resource is included in the following bundle(s): Readers With Character: 40 Week Bundle Readers With Character: 20 Week Intervention Bundle ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ LOOKING FOR MORE SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL LEARNING / CHARACTER EDUCATION LESSONS? ✭ Asking For Help ✭ Choosing Kindness ✭ Coping With Emotions ✭ Courage to be Unique ✭ Digital Citizenship ✭ Disagreeing Respectfully ✭ Following Directions ✭ Food Allergy Awareness ✭ Good Sportsmanship ✭ Gratitude and Fairness ✭ Growth Mindset ✭ Hearing vs Listening ✭ How to Apologize ✭ Interrupting ✭ Manners ✭ Our Actions Effect Others ✭ Patience ✭ Personal Space ✭ Positive Attitude ✭ Respect ✭ Sharing ✭ Starting Conversations ✭ Taking Responsibility ✭ Tattling vs. Reporting ✭ Voice Levels ✭ We Have Special Talents ✭ Whole Body Listening ✭ Independent Problem Solving ✭ Honesty ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Cupcakes & Curriculum ⇢ www.cupcakesncurriculum.com Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram | Freebies | Teacher Tees ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Looking for some humor & positivity in your #teacherlife? Join the conversation in our Facebook Group! A LITTLE ABOUT THE AUTHOR Hey there! I'm Jennifer, an experienced first, third, and fourth grade general education classroom teacher, I also have experience as a special education teacher's assistant and interventionist. I earned my Bachelors' degree in Family & Child Studies, and my Masters' degree in Elementary Education. I've been creating resources on Teachers Pay Teachers since 2012 to help teachers like you find your work-life balance - you are so much more than just an awesome teacher! If you have any questions about this resource, or if you'd simply like to 'talk teacher' with me, send me an email at [email protected]! ♥ ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁
These are my favorite read aloud picture books to build classroom community.
by Joseoh Zins and Maurice Elias This book chapter serves as a concise summary of SEL- what it is, why it's needed, how it fits in with systems of supports for students, key components of effective SEL, and the implementation process."
Readers With Character is an integrated social skills and character education curriculum for the general education elementary classroom teacher. These lessons work best with students in Kindergarten through third grade. Digital menu for distance learning included. Included in THIS resource... This is ONE WEEK of the Readers With Character curriculum. Weeks can be done in isolation, which is why I am listing them separately in addition to the GROWING BUNDLE which will eventually include all 40 weeks of the school year. This week's book: The Way I Act by Steve Metzger ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Overview: This book is a collection of actions/characteristics of a person, described in rhyming verse. Through dialogue, illustrations, and examples, your students will explore their meanings. The book provides us with a prime opportunity to talk with our students about the difference between our feelings and our actions. Through this book, your students will begin to understand that the things they do show other people what kind of person they are. ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Focus of the week: Our actions show others who we are. This resource includes 5 days (15 minutes each) of lessons surrounding the focus and mentor text. Your students will: ★ Listen to the read aloud (you, if you own the book -OR- find a YouTube reading!). Question and discussion prompts included. ★ Engage in conversations and reflections during class meetings. Suggested discussion topics and questions are included. ★ Watch a related video clip and begin to generalize the focus of the week. Question/discussion prompts included. ★ Engage in a hands-on activity (this week-- a Picture/Word Match) ★ Complete a student journal that anchors your discussions, includes reflections on new learning, and informs families about your weekly focus in the Home Connection. BONUS MATERIALS: ★ Modified version of Picture/Word match ★ Mini-Anchor charts for each of the 13 characteristics; includes word, simple definition, and picture. Use as anchor charts or make into a mini-book. Check out the full-year curriculum by clicking here. Why Do I Need This Resource? More and more, teachers are experiencing challenges as they try to create a community of well managed, kind and respectful learners within their classroom. Without that community, it is so hard to effectively teach all of the academic skills that we are required to! Character education is so important - children spend most of their waking hours at school, so it is our job to model good character, to teach them right from wrong and kind from unkind. What may come as “natural” to us does not always come natural to our students. They need to be explicitly taught norms of being a person with character. So what would a typical week look like? Monday: Tell students what the focus of the week will be. (ie: respect for each other and the classroom) Read the specified mentor text to your students, or show a video read-aloud of the book from the internet. Tuesday: Hold a classroom meeting where you will remind students of the focus, and begin to generalize the story so it can apply to your focus. Students will draw and/or write their understanding of the focus of the week in their journals. Wednesday: Students will view a video clip. Then, another community building classroom meeting will be held to talk about how the video clip relates to the focus of the week. Thursday: Students will engage in an activity to reinforce the focus of the week. (ie: a skit to model the focus of the week, building an anchor chart together, or making a song etc..) Friday: Students will draw and/or write about their new learning by completing prompts in their journal. Then, students will take their journals home and share the ‘Home Connection’ with their families. DIGITAL MENU One-page PDF that includes links to the following: Link to video read-aloud of the book Link to video of the week Google Slides link to weekly journal Google Slides link to Home Connection Google slides link to classroom visuals Google Slides link to digital activity ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Are you looking for other character education lessons? ➡ Are you looking for lessons about being respectful? Check out Readers With Character: What if Everybody Did That? ➡ Are you looking for lessons about being unique? Check out Readers With Character: Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun ➡ Are you looking for lessons about whole body listening? Check out Readers With Character: Lacey Walker, Nonstop Talker ➡ Are you looking for lessons about tattling vs. reporting? Check out Readers With Character: Don't Squeal Unless It's a Big Deal ▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁ Created by Jennifer @ Cupcakes & Curriculum ☞ www.cupcakesandcurriculum.com ✱ Helping busy teachers rock their jobs, stay organized and work smarter — one sweet lesson at a time. ✱ Teachers Pay Teachers l Instagram l Pinterest l Facebook l Blog l Freebies l Contact Me
Sharing all of the resilience books for kids I use with my resiliency skills group counseling program, Bounce Back in person and virtually.
Today I bring together my posts and other people’s ideas about how to teach perseverance to kids. These are activities and lessons available in my character building series. I am sure all of us recognize that character is something we want to work to develop in our kids. However, we have to ask ourselves, “How...Read More
One of my fabulous 1st grade students shared with me a wonderful children’s book called, Oliver and Hope’s Amusing Adventure. The authors/publisher describe the story: “At the heart of the Olive…
I love a good book list and I especially love sifting through the book store. I often search Amazon prior to buying books, so that I know what I am looking for. I have research loads of books that will help you to teach social skills in your setting. The books cover a range of […]
Are your students working on managing emotions, staying calm, persevering and being kind? Award positive behaviors in your classroom with these 7 certificates recognizing social emotional intelligence. Great for special education and students of all ages.Each award is designed to be low-ink and is...
Strong emotions such as anger and frustration can be difficult for kids to understand and manage. These children's books can help.
Launch classroom conversations about identity, grief, perseverance, kindness, and more.
Use this free All About Me printable book to practice early literacy skills during preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten all about me theme.
Teaching Honesty in the Classroom; character education; classroom community; honesty for kids
This is a great activity that teaches how to build classroom community and mindfulness in the classroom. It's perfect for a variety of ages.
Today I'm excited because we have successfully reached day 5 of our first week back to school. In celebration of all of that connecting and growing, a relatively new book to share. Click for a review and some activity ideas! This one is so special that I'm going to read it next week as my Intro to the Counselor pick. We're going to discuss it. And then solve a problem together. And since I really think you're going to add this one to your collection, I'm not going to tell you much. Just enough to whet your appetite. You see, he didn't want the problem. Didn't invite it, didn't ask for it. He wants it to go away, to get lost. He finds out pretty quickly, however, that the age-old adage you can run but you can't hide is, in fact, spot on. So he decides to face it, only to find ... ok, that's all I'm saying. Except to tell you to prepare to fall in love with Mae Besom's illustrations. And the potential that this book has to help your superheroes grow. Click the graphic for its source. At the end of the day, it's all about how we look at things. Update: Click the picture to get details about the problem I'm challenging them to solve. It has been a blast watching them move these six cups from a stack and into a pillar pyramid without letting them make physical contact with any part of their bodies! Check out these other growth mindset resources. Angela Watson's collection of growth mindset videos {here}. A growth mindset poster freebie from Stephanie Ann {here}. A rider, elephant and path clip about Change Theory {here}. A mindset object lesson from Teaching in Room 6 {here}. Sesame Street does Growth Mindset {here}. And my friend Lisa's Growth Mindset Pinterest page {here}. Let's get growing!
Help your students refocus on their goals and identify the strengths they have that will help them persevere and finish the school year strong with this fun perseverance activity!
21 books about feelings that can help children learn to identify emotions, their causes and coping strategies for managing big feelings.
Discover the newest set of free and Printable Worksheets for Kids to build your kids’ understanding of subject concepts. These worksheets include simple math, reading scales, and more.
Back to school ideas to teach your students about sentences and their parts. This color-coded resource is perfect for K-1 literacy centers.
