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A colorful picture book that helps young children identify and express their emotions through relatable situations and expressive illustrations. With this story, the student's prediction skills could be built upon. When the book is being read, before each page is turned the student's could be asked what they predict or think is going to happen on the next page based solely on the pictures.

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The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions

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The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions

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A unique story about a monster who needs help sorting out his mixed-up emotions, using different colors to represent different feelings. This story would be able to support the student's writing abilities. After the story is read the students would complete a writing activity where they draw the emotion they're feeling, with the matching color, and then explain their picture by writing about the picture.

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A beautifully illustrated book that explores emotions through size, shape, and color, helping children understand their feelings. The students would be able to promote their text to illustration skills through creating their own mini book talking about their feelings and using pictures to show how big or little their feelings are.

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In My Heart: A book of Feelings children book

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Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day

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Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day

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A fun, rhyming story that shows how moods can change throughout the day and helps children recognize different emotions. With the help of this book, students would be able to advance upon their vocabulary skills. Teachers could take the new moods, or emotions, taught in this book and add the words to the vocab wall so that the students see these important words more than just in the story.

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Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day

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A simple story about dealing with bad days and angry feelings through a creative cooking activity with mom.

Students can improve upon their writing skills by creating their own recipe with the "ingredients" that help them to calm down. The recipe can also include things that make them happy or cheer them up at home.

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An early chapter book about a young girl named Dani who maintains her optimism despite facing various challenges.

The students creative and reflective writing skills would be improved upon with an interactive writing prompt asking the students to think of one of the happiest moments in their life. Then think about a time when they were sad, but how did they change their feelings from being sad. How did they become happy again? Happy like they were in that happiest moment of their life.

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The New York Times
Dani is probably the happiest person she knows. She's happy because she's going to start school. Dani has been waiting to go to school her whole life. Then things get even better―she meets Ella Frida by the swings. After that, Dani and Ella Frida do everything together and become best friends. But then something happens that Dani isn't prepared for...

A perfect first chapter book for children aged five and up, full of social-emotional learning and sweet and funny illustrations, from one of the world's greatest illustrators, Eva Eriksson.

Rose Lagercrantz is a popular Swedish author of books for children as well as for adults. She has received many of the top Swedish literary awards, including the August Prize and the Astrid Lindgren Prize.

"Working beautifully with the text and usually given more space on the page, these sensitive ink drawings feature clean lines that express emotions through every character's stance, gesture, and expression. A quietly compelling book for young readers."―

"Sweet and salty - umami for the emerging reader."―
When I Am Happiest
Life According to Dani
See You When I See You
Where Dani Goes, Happy Follows
All's Happy That Ends Happy

Praise for
Young independent readers who like Kate DiCamillo or the Ivy & Bean series will be hooked on the 7-book series once they start.

"If only all early chapter books were this beautifully conceived."― My Happy Life Booklist The Horn Book

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Amazon.com: My Happy Life: 9781877579356: Lagercrantz, Rose, Eriksson, Eva: Books

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A beautiful graphic novel that explores emotions through the changing seasons, perfect for young readers. Students could work on the literacy component, fluency by using different reading strategies such as choral reading or paired reading.

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A heartwarming graphic novel memoir about a young rabbit who deals with various emotions while navigating school with hearing loss. El Deafo won the John Newbery Medal in 2015. This novel could be supported with the literacy component Illustration Analysis. Being a graphic novel, the class could discuss how the pictures support the storyline, and then the students could create their own graphic storyline about an event in their life.

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Cece Bell's #1 New York Times Bestseller graphic novel El Deafo is the origin story of a student with hearing loss and a hearing aid becoming a superhero. A John Newbery Medal Winner Now an Apple+ Animated TV Series! El Deafo is a book that will entertain children, give hearing-impaired children a hero of their own, and challenge others to consider an experience unlike their own. Like other great works for children, it provides the opportunity for young readers to consider how they would act or react in a similar situation, helping to build empathy and understanding through the power of story.El Deafo: Superpowered Edition! Get a special hardcover collector's edition of Cece Bell's beloved graphic novel with 40 bonus pages of childhood photographs, early sketches, notes from Cece, and much more!

Starting at a new school is scary, especially with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At her old school, everyone in Cece's class was deaf. Here, she's different. She's sure the kids are staring at the Phonic Ear, the powerful aid that will help her hear her teacher. Too bad it also seems certain to repel potential friends.

Then Cece makes a startling discovery. With the Phonic Ear, she can hear her teacher not just in the classroom, but anywhere her teacher is in the school-in the hallway . . . in the teacher's lounge . . . in the bathroom! This is power. Maybe even superpower! Cece is on her way to becoming El Deafo, Listener for All.

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But the funny thing about being a superhero is that it's just another way of feeling different . . . and lonely. Can Cece channel her powers into finding the thing she wants most: a true friend?

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El Deafo [Bell, Cece] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. El Deafo

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A touching graphic novel about friendship, anxiety, and self-discovery during elementary school years.

The literacy component comprehension can be supported with this book, by discussing and documenting the settings and characters after each chapter.

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children's comic strip fiction & graphic novels

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"Fresh and funny." ―New York Times Book ReviewNewbery Honor author Shannon Hale and New York Times bestselling illustrator LeUyen Pham join forces in this graphic memoir about how hard it is to find your real friends―and why it's worth the journey.When best friends are not forever . . . Shannon a...

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A heartfelt book about mental health and self-acceptance. Hayes shares personal stories and practical advice, encouraging readers to recognize and embrace their emotions. She emphasizes that struggling is normal and highlights the importance of seeking support. The book promotes the message that healing takes time and it's okay to ask for help.

This book is hitting a homerun when talking about emotional vocabulary. This literacy component would promote a conversation in the classroom about these new and big vocabulary words that are about big and heavy emotions. The students would not only be taught about these new words and keep building their vocab bank, but it also allows a space for the students to see that any emotion is valid for any person, especially these big emotions that people don't always share.

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How do we help our children when they aren't feeling their best?

The most educational social-emotional learning (SEL) book for letting children know it's okay to not feel okay, sometimes.

This charming story with peaceful rhymes and colorful illustrations will explain to your child that it is okay to feel emotions like sadness and loneliness.

With the relatable examples the story shares, your child will have a better understanding of feelings and and know that no emotion is bad or good.

"It's Okay to Not Be Okay" was created for kids ages 3-8. Perfect for parents, educators, and counselors.

I know now it ' s okay to not be okay ,
And that sometimes I just need to let it pass.
Even on my darkest days,
I know that my sadness won't last.

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It's Okay To Not Be Okay: A Rhyming Read Aloud Story for Children About Feelings of Sadness and Loneliness (Social Emotional Learning Toolbox - Therapists, Educators, and Parents)

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It's Okay To Not Be Okay: A Rhyming Read Aloud Story for Children About Feelings of Sadness and Loneliness (Social Emotional Learning Toolbox - Therapists, Educators, and Parents) [Hayes, Emily] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.

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"Olive's Ocean" follows Martha, a young girl who grapples with the loss of a classmate, Olive, whose journal entry prompts her to reflect on life, friendship, and her own identity during a summer at the beach. Through her experiences, Martha learns valuable lessons about connection and the importance of embracing the moments that shape her. Olive's Ocean was awarded the Newbery Honor Award in 2004. This novel will support the literacy component: character development. This can be done through the class discussing and understanding the protagonist and analyzing the character's emotions and relationships with the other characters.

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Martha Boyle and Olive Barstow could have been friends, but they weren't. Weeks after a tragic accident, all that is left are eerie connections between the two girls, former classmates who both kept the same secret without knowing it.

Now, even while on vacation at the ocean, Martha can't stop thinking about Olive. Things only get more complicated when Martha begins to like Jimmy Manning, a neighbor boy she used to despise. What is going on? Can life for Martha be the same ever again?

Multiple award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Kevin Henkes brings his insightful, gentle, real-world insight to middle grade novels, including:

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Olive's Ocean: A Newbery Honor Award Winner

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Olive's Ocean: A Newbery Honor Award Winner [Henkes, Kevin] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Olive's Ocean: A Newbery Honor Award Winner