SEL involves teaching students about their emotions and what to do with them. It also involves purposefully teaching important social skills such as problem-solving, taking turns, being responsible and expressing their ideas.
3 Benefits of teaching SEL in the classroom:
Students can know and manage themselves.
Students understand the perspectives of others and relate effectively with them.
Students are able to make sound choices about personal and social decisions.
Self-Awareness and Understanding Our Feelings:
The Way I Feel by Jana Cain
Grow Happy by Jon Lasser
Bad Case of the Stripes by David Shannon
The Boy with Big, Big Feelings by Britney Winn Lee
It’s Okay to Not Be Okay by Emily Hayes
Help Students to Bounce Back and Take Risks:
Brave Every Day by Trudy Ludwig
The Whatifs by Emily Kilgore
Jabari Jumps by Gaia Cornwall
Anita and the Dragons by Hannah Carmona
The Book of Mistakes by Corinna Luyken
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
Your Fantastic and Elastic Brain by JoAnn Deak
Kindness
Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners by Laurie Keller
The Big Umbrella by Amy June Bates
Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts
Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud
The Juice Box Bully by Bob Sornson
Friendship
A Friend for Henry by Jenn Bailey
The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
Ways to Make Friencs by Jairo Buitrago
Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
Stick and Stone by Beth Ferry
Handling Grief
Evelyn Del Ray is Moving Away by Meg Medina
Rosa’s Song by Helena Ku Rhee
Dadaji’s Paintbrush by Rashmi Sirdeshpande
The Memory String by Eve Bunting
The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
Honesty
Lying Up a Storm by Julia Cook
Ruthie and the Not so Teeny Tiny Lie by Laura Rankin
Self-Control/Self-Management
My Mouth is a Volcano! by Julia Cook
Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
Clark the Shark by Bruce Hale
What Were You Thinking? A Story About Learning to Control Your Impulses by Bryan Smith
No, David! by David Shannon
Train Your Angry Dragon by Steve Herman
Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
Being Balanced
The Good Egg by Jory John
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett
My Day is Ruined! A Story Teaching Flexible Thinking by Bryan Smith
Being Principled
The Story of Ferdinand by Munro Leaf
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