Take Heart K-2 : Five SEL Mini-Units for Tough Times

From Nancy Boyles, author of Classroom Reading to Engage the Heart and Mind, this Guide helps ease the stress of transition to remote learning OR to a return to classrooms, for teachers and students alike.

This guide features 15 award-winning picture books to facilitate conversations about social emotional issues, carefully chosen for age-appropriate themes matched to 5 SEL skills as well as to highlight different aspects of diversity.

The suggested units, which include questions to pose about each book and theme, are: Find Your Happy: Staying PositiveMaking Choices: Choosing KindnessRise and Shine: Overcoming Challenges to SucceedVoice Lessons: Using Your Voice to Inspire ChangeEquity: With Social Justice for All This QRG in the new set of Strategies for Distance Learning Guides is an invaluable resource, providing a ready-made curriculum within which to explore children's social emotional needs as they seek to understand how to relate to a world that has changed dramatically.

The mini-lessons can be conducted either in a traditional classroom session or online.

Its companion Guide, Take Heart 3-6, provides content for older students. Each 8.5" x 11" multi-panel guide is laminated for extra durability and 3-hole-punched for binder storage.