Primary Character Education ~ Social Emotional Learning

Item description

This resource contains an amazing array of activities and inspiration to help build a kind and caring classroom culture. 

Social Emotional Learning (SEL) provides a foundation for safe, inclusive and positive learning. It enhances student feelings of self-esteem and increases their ability to succeed in school.

This product includes suggestions of 20 picture books to use with primary students (Grades 1-3) to address social emotional learning topics in your classroom.

Along with the 20 suggested read alouds, there are discussion questions to spark meaningful classroom conversations, and instructions for 20 class community-building activities.

Social Emotional topics addressed include: friendship, diversity, perseverance, emotions, kindness and many others.

The book suggestions included are:

Sincerely Emerson (Weber, E.)

The Barnabus Project (The Fan Brothers)

Why Can’t We Be Besticorns? (vonInnerebner, J.)

We Believe in You (Ferry, B.)

What the Road Said (Wade, C.)

Tickled Pink (Poulin, A.)

When we are Kind (Gray-Smith, M.)

Oddbird (Desierto, D.)

The Happy Book (Rash, A.)

Harrison P. Spader Personal Space Invader (Jones, C.)

The Chicken Who Couldn’t (Thomas, J.)

When Sophie Thinks She Can’t (Bang, M.)

It’s Not My Fault (John, J.)

Daisy (Bagley, J.)

The Squirrels Who Squabbled (Bright, R.)

The Smeds and the Smoos (Donaldson, J.)

Kindness Grows (Teckentrup, B.)

Thao (Lam, T.)

Nanette’s Baguette (Willems, M.)

We Move Together (Fritsch, K.)