35 Social Emotional Learning Picture Book Companions SEL Activities Social Skill

Read Alouds for SEL are the best way to teach CHARACTER EDUCATION and SOCIAL SKILLS in your classroom. Thus bundle contains 35 Picture Book Companions with reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, word study , vocabulary activities and Social Emotional Learning lesson ideas for integrated literacy and character education.

They include printable and digital versions of each activity as well as teacher slides.

We have over 550 book companions to choose from? ➔ ➔ SEE THEM ALL HERE

THIS BUNDLE USES PICTURE BOOKS TO TEACH THE FOLLOWING SOCIAL EMOTIONAL SKILLS :

◼️A BIKE LIKE SERGIO'S by Maribeth Boelts

☐ Ethical Responsibility

◼️AFTER THE FALL by Dan Santat

☐ Self-motivation

◼️BE KIND by Pat Zietlow Miller

☐ Respect for others

◼️Big Red Lollipop by Rukhsana Khan

☐ Self-advocacy

◼️Chocolate Milk, Por Favor by Maria Dismondy and Nancy Raines Day

☐ Appreciating Diversity

◼️Elmer by David McKee

☐ Individuality

◼️Enemy Pie by Derek Munson

☐ Friendship

◼️Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae

☐ Self-confidence

◼️Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Lang

☐ Identifying Emotions

◼️Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty

☐ Teamwork

◼️Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein

☐ Impulse Control

◼️Last Stop On Market Street by Matt de la Peña

☐ Gratitude

◼️Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes

☐ Self-discipline

◼️My Brother Charlie by D. Millner, H. Robinson Peete & R. Elizabeth Peete

☐ Appreciating Diversity

◼️Naughty Mabel by Devlin Elliott and Nathan Lane

☐ Making good choices

◼️Neck & Neck by Elise Parsley

☐ Anger Management

◼️Pig the Pug by Aaron Blabey

☐ Sharing

◼️Pigsty by Mark Teague

☐ Organizational Skills

◼️Red: A Crayon's Story by Michael Hall

☐ Staying True to Yourself

◼️Rosie Revere, Engineer by Andrea Beaty

☐ Identifying problems

◼️Ruby the Copycat by Peggy Rathmann

☐ Perspective Taking

◼️Salt in His Shoes by Deloris Jordan and Roslyn Jordan

☐ Goal-setting

◼️Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

☐ Recognizing strengths

◼️Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell

☐ Bullying / teasing

◼️The Bad Seed by Jory John

☐ Accurate self-perception

◼️The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt

☐ Communication

◼️The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds

☐ Growth Mindset

◼️The Empty Pot by Demi

☐ Honesty

◼️The Good Egg by Jory John

☐ Stress Mangament

◼️The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig

☐ Inclusion

◼️The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires

☐ The Most Magnificent Thing

◼️The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch

☐ Analyzing situations

◼️The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad and S.K. Ali

☐ Respect for others

◼️The Sandwich Swap by Kelly DiPucchio and Queen Rania of Jordan

☐ Conflict Resolution

◼️Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts

☐ Empathy

EACH READING UNIT FOCUSES ON USING THE MENTOR TEXT TO TEACH:

◼️READING STRATEGIES
☐ see each book for complete list of included strategies

◼️SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING TOPICS
☐ see each book for complete list of included strategies

◼️GRAMMAR & LANGUAGE CONCEPTS
☐ see each book for complete list of included strategies

HOW THIS RESOURCE SAVES YOU TIME and IMPROVES STUDENT LEARNING:

♥ The comprehension questions are grouped by reading strategies for easy lesson planning.
♥ It is standards-based and covers all aspects of language arts instruction.
♥ The activities were designed to be open-ended for easy differentiation and modification.

THE BOOK COMPANION PACKET CAN BE USED FOR:
→ sub plans
→ reader's workshop
→ guided reading
→ small group instruction
→ independent work
→ literacy centers
→ informal assessment
→ writer's workshop
→ RTI
→ word study
→ guidance lessons for social emotional learning
→ for remote learning, distance learning, or paperless work in the classroom

INCLUDED READ ALOUD LESSON IDEAS & PICTURE BOOK ACTIVITIES:
➜ Comprehension Questions categorized by reading strategy; text-dependent
➜ Social Emotional Learning guidance lesson ideas & discussion topics based on the story
➜ Vocabulary Activities with kid-friendly definitions
➜ Grammar Topics selected to align with the text
➜ Focus Sentences use the book & author's craft as a mentor text to improve writing
➜ Lesson Planner summary, background info and planning space

➜ Story Mapping Printable identify character, setting, problem and solution

➜ Making Words Activity Page use any word from the book

➜ Focus Sentence copy work, identifying elements of the sentence, rewriting)

➜ Design a New Book Cover demonstrate understanding of the text by creating an illustration

➜ Predicting Activity primary-ruled and wider-ruled versions
➜ Summarizing Somebody → Wanted → But → Then → Finally

➜ Comparing and Contrasting using a Venn Diagram

➜ Cause and Effect analyze how events affect one another

➜ Visualization illustrate visualizations from the story and support thinking with text-based evidence

➜ Making Connections identify text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

➜ Thematic Writing Paper Use with the Writing Prompts... Makes a Great Bulletin Board

➜ 2 Sequencing Activities First → Next → Then → Last and Beginning → Middle → End

➜ 2 Vocabulary Activities Vocabulary Booklet and Word Mapping

➜ 2 Character Trait Activities listing traits and supporting traits with text-based evidence
➜ 30 Text-Based Writing Prompts 3 prompts for each of the following types of writing:

• narrative
• persuasive / opinion
• descriptive
• expository / informative
• creative / story writing
• procedure / how-to
• list making
• letter / postcard writing
• poem
• book reviews

INCLUDED DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:

➜ 5 Teaching Slides to use for instruction (add questions, vocabulary, instructions, etc)

➜ 15 Student Pages for use in Google™️ Classroom or as editable files to create customized printables
➜ 20 Image Files so you can use the resource with Seesaw™️ or another platform

THESE BOOK COMPANIONS ARE LOVED BY. . .

→ classroom teachers

→ school librarians / media specialists

→ reading specialists

→ homeschool families

→ special education teachers

→ ELL / ESOL teachers

→ school counselors

→ speech language pathologists

→ reading interventionists

→ literacy coaches

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★★THIS RESOURCE IS ALIGNED WITH THESE CCSS STANDARDS BELOW★★

FIRST GRADE

• READING LITERATURE: CCSS.RL.1.1 CCSS.RL.1.2 CCSS.RL.1.3 CCSS.RL.1.4 CCSS.RL.1.7 CCSS.RL.1.9
• READING FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS: CCSS.RF.1.1 CCSS.RF.1.1a
• WRITING: CCSS.W.1.1 CCSS.W.1.2 CCSS.W.1.3 CCSS.W.1.5 
• LANGUAGE: CCSS.L.1.1 CCSS.L.1.1a CCSS.L.1.1b CCSS.L.1.1c CCSS.L.1.1eCCSS.L.1.1f CCSS.L.1.1h CCSS.L.1.2a CCSS.L.1.2b CCSS.L.1.2d CCSS.L.1.2e CCSS.L.1.5c CCSS.L.1.6     
• SPEAKING AND LISTENING: CCSS.SL.1.1 CCSS.SL.1.1a CCSS.SL.1.1b CCSS.SL.1.1c CCSS.SL.1.2

SECOND GRADE

• READING LITERATURE: CCSS.RL.2.1 CCSS.RL.2.2 CCSS.RL.2.3 CCSS.RL.2.5 CCSS.RL.2.6 CCSS.RL.2.7 CCSS.RL.2.9
• READING FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS: RF.2.3 RF.2.4.c
• WRITING: CCSS.W.2.1 CCSS.W.2.2 CCSS.W.2.3 CCSS.W.2.5
• LANGUAGE: CCSS.L.2.1 CCSS.L.2.1e CCSS.L.2.3 CCSS.L.2.4a CCSS.L.2.6     
• SPEAKING & LISTENING: CCSS.SL.2.1 CCSS.SL.2.1a CCSS.SL.2.1b CCSS.SL.2.1c CCSS.SL.2.2 CCSS.SL.2.3     

THIRD GRADE

• READING LITERATURE: CCSS.RL.3.1 CCSS.RL.3.2 CCSS.RL.3.3 CCSS.RL.3.4 CCSS.RL.3.5 CCSS.RL.3.6 CCSS.RL.3.7 CCSS.RL.3.9
• READING FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS: RF.2.3 RF.2.4c
• WRITING: CCSS.W.3.1 CCSS.W.3.2 CCSS.W.3.3 CCSS.W.3.4 CCSS.W.3.5 CCSS.W.3.10 CCSS.W.3.1a CCSS.W.3.1b CCSS.W.3.1c CCSS.W.3.1d CCSS.W.3.2a CCSS.W.3.2b CCSS.W.3.2c CCSS.W.3.2d CCSS.W.3.3a CCSS.W.3.3b CCSS.W.3.3c CCSS.W.3.3d
• LANGUAGE: CCSS.L.3.1   
• SPEAKING AND LISTENING: CCSS.SL.3.2 CCSS.SL.3.3 CCSS.SL.3.4 

CCSS ANCHOR STANDARDS (ALL GRADES)

• LANGUAGE: CCSS.CCRA.L.1 CCSS.CCRA.L.2     
• READING: CCSS.CCRA.R.1 CCSS.CCRA.R.2 CCSS.CCRA.R.3 CCSS.CCRA.R.4 CCSS.CCRA.R.9     
• SPEAKING AND LISTENING: CCSS.CCRA.SL.1 CCSS.CCRA.SL.4  
• ANCHOR STANDARDS FOR WRITING: CCSS.CCRA.W.1 CCSS.CCRA.W.2 CCSS.CCRA.W.3 CCSS.CCRA.W.4 CCSS.CCRA.W.5 CCSS.CCRA.W.10  

★IT'S ALIGNED WITH THE TEXAS ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS ( TEKS )★

FIRST GRADE

• DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING FOUNDATIONAL LANGUAGE SKILLS: TEKS.1.1.C TEKS.1.1.D TEKS.1.1.A TEKS.1.12.C.iii TEKS.1.12.C.iv TEKS.1.13.B
• AUTHOR’S PURPOSE AND CRAFT: TEKS.1.10.A TEKS.1.10.B -EKS.1.10.C TEKS.1.10.D
• COMPOSITION: TEKS1.11.A TEKS.1.11.B.i TEKS.1.11.B.ii TEKS.1.11.D.ix TEKS.1.11.x TEKS.1.11.E TEKS.1.12.A TEKS.1.12.B TEKS.1.12.C
• COMPREHENSION SKILLS: TEKS.1.6.B TEKS.1.6.C TEKS.1.6.D TEKS.1.6.E TEKS.1.6.F
• RESPONSE SKILLS: TEKS1.7.A TEKS1.7.B TEKS1.7.C TEKS1.7.D TEKS1.7.E TEKS1.7.F
• MULTIPLE GENRES: TEKS1.8.A TEKS1.8.B TEKS1.8.C TEKS1.8.D

SECOND GRADE

• DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING FOUNDATIONAL LANGUAGE SKILLS: TEKS.2.1.A TEKS.2.1.C - TEKS.2.1.D TEKS.2.1.E TEKS.2.3.B
• AUTHOR’S PURPOSE AND CRAFT: TEKS2.10.A TEKS2.10.B TEKS2.10.C
• COMPOSITION: TEKS.2.11.A TEKS.2.11.D.xi TEKS.2.11.E TEKS.2.12.A TEKS.2.12.BTEKS.2.12.C
• COMPREHENSION SKILLS: TEKS.2.6.B TEKS.2.6.C TEKS.2.6.D TEKS.2.6.E TEKS.2.6.F TEKS.2.6.G TEKS.2.6.H
• RESPONSE SKILLS: TEKS.2.7.A TEKS.2.7.C TEKS.2.7.D TEKS.2.7.E TEKS.2.7.F
• MULTIPLE GENRES: TEKS.2.8.B TEKS.2.8.C TEKS.2.8.D

THIRD GRADE

• DEVELOPING AND SUSTAINING FOUNDATIONAL LANGUAGE SKILLS: TEKS.3 .1.A TEKS.3.1.C TEKS.3.1.D TEKS.3.1.E TEKS.3.3.B
• AUTHOR’S PURPOSE AND CRAFT: TEKS3.10.A TEKS3.10.B TEKS3.10.C
• COMPOSITION: TEKS.3.11.A TEKS.3.11.D.xi TEKS.3.11.E TEKS.3.12.A TEKS.3.12.B TEKS.3.12.C
• COMPREHENSION SKILLS: TEKS.3.6.B TEKS.3.6.C TEKS.3.6.D TEKS.3.6.E TEKS.3.6.F TEKS.3.6.G TEKS.3.6.H
• RESPONSE SKILLS: TEKS.3.7.ATEKS.3.7.C TEKS.3.7.D TEKS.3.7.E TEKS.3.7.F
• MULTIPLE GENRES: TEKS.3.8.B TEKS.3.8.C TEKS.3.8.D

We have over 500 book companions to choose from? ➔ ➔ SEE THEM ALL HERE