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Author: Yangsook Choi
Illustrator: Yangsook Choi
Publication Date: 2001
Genre: Fiction
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Teaser: Imagine being the new student at school and having a name that no one knows how to pronounce. This is how Unhei feels when she she is nervous that her new American friends will not like her. They fill out a name jar to help her pick her name, but later find out her real name and the meaning behind it. Will they still try to give her a new name or will they try to pronounce her new name?
Teaching Lesson: Create your own class name jar, but instead of including names you could include suggestions for how to treat new classmates or just how to treat classmates in general. Have each student put a suggestion in anonymously and then read them all together as a class. This is a good lesson on how to treat new students and just how to treat individuals in general.

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Teaser: Kid president is a funny youtube star who makes fun videos that kids and even adults enjoy. This video, he gives advice while using a checklist of how to make new friends. This video has a sense of comedy in it because of the funny kid that kid president is which will make the students enjoy the video while also getting some great tips.
Lesson Plan: After watching the video, the class can add to his checklist that he made by brainstorming some of their own ideas to add to the checklist.

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Kid President's Guide to Making a New Friend

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This is a simple and easy to understand quote that could start a class discussion a friendship. As a class, we can create a list of how we can be a friend for someone who needs one. This is a simple and easy lesson that can create a great discussion for the students as a class about this topic.

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Teaser: This poem is simple and gives a short message about what being a friend involves.
Lesson Plan: Acrostic poems are easy to make and fun for kids. After reading this example poem, students can create their own acrostic poem about friendship and they can hang them up on the wall in the classroom. This is an easy and fun activity that the students will love to do.

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Author: Phillip C. Stead
Illustrator: Erin C. Stead
Publication Date:2010
Genre: Fiction
Approx. Interest Level: K-2
Approx. Text Level: Guided Reading Level I
Teaser: Amos McGee, a zookeeper, is a friendly worker who does everything he can to please all of the animals. One day, Mr. McGee doesn't show up to work and his animal friends wonder if he is ok because he never misses work. This is a story of the adventure that the animals go on to check on Mr. McGee and is a great example of what friendship should look like.
Teaching Lesson: Have the students write in their journals about a time that they helped someone who was sick and how it made them feel.

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Teaser: This poem is a sweet poem for young kids to read about how to be a friend. It is a short poem and easy to read with a simple and easy to understand message. After reading the poem, students can come up with their own ways of how they can be a pal to their friends and classmates.
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Author: William Steig
Illustrator: William Steig
Publication Date: 1971
Genre: Fiction
Approx. Interest Level:K-2
Approx. Text Level: Guided Reading Level O
Teaser: Amos and Boris is a tale of the friendship of a whale and a mouse when the whale rescues the mouse from the middle of the ocean. This story is a great example of a lasting friendship and is great for teaching students what a friendship should look like and that even people who are different from each other can be great friends.
Teaching Lesson: Create a scavenger hunt with little mice around the classroom and have the students work as a team to find the mice and bring them back to shore (a basket or pretend boat). This will encourage students to work together and teach them the value of friendship.

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Author: Oliver Jeffers
Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
Publication Date: 2005
Genre: Fiction
Approx. Interest Level: K-5
Approx. Text Level: Guided Reading Level L
Teaser: This is a cute story of a friendship that forms from a penguin showing up at a little boys house. The boy thinks that the penguin is lost and tries to hep him find his way back home, but in the end realizes that he is just lonely and needs a friend. This story is a cute example of a friendship being formed.
Teaching Lesson: Students can create their own version of lost and found by playing a game of hide and seek as a classroom in order to find their friends. Then, students can discuss how this relates to the story they read.

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Author: Beth Ferry
Illustrator: Tom Lichtenheld
Publication Date: 2009
Genre: Children's Literature
Approx. Interest Level:K-2
Approx. Text Level: Guided Reading Level M
Teaser: Ever heard of the phrase "sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me?" This is a tale of a stick and a stone who stand up for each other when they come upon a bully. This rhyming book is great for teaching about anti bullying and to be kind to others.
Teaching Lesson: Have the students create their own rhyme or poem about being kind or about friendship. Students can write it on colored paper and all of the rhymes can be hung up around the classroom.

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Author: Julie Hubery
Illustrator: Caroline Pedler
Publication Date: 2009
Genre: Children's Literature
Approx. Interest Level: K-2
Approx. Text Level-
Teaser: Panda and Monkey must discover their friendship and learn how to work together on their journey to a mountain in order to make it. Will they figure out how to work together as friends? Or will Monkey and panda not be able to work together to find the surprise?
Teaching Lesson: Students will be asked to thing of a time when they had to work together with a friend and it was hard. They will discuss in groups their situations were and how they handled the difficult situation by working together instead of alone.

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Author: Carol McCloud
Illustrator: David Messing
Publication Date: 2006
Genre: Non-Fiction
Approx. Interest Level: K-2
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Teaser: This story is an excellent way of teaching kids how to be kinds to others and is a good book when teaching about friendships. It emphasizes the importance of filling an invisible bucket each day by showing an act of kindness and how rewarding these acts are when you fill someones bucket. After reading this book to your students, you can use the term filling someones bucket in the classroom to teach or emphasize kindness in classroom and to friends and the students will love it.
Teaching Lesson: Make buckets out of small containers for each student in the classroom and have the students write a friendly note or a compliment to put in other students buckets to represent filling someones bucket. You can tell your students that filling other peoples buckets is not just a physical thing like this activity. It can be done through words, actions, facial expressions, ect.

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Author: Marcus Pfister
Illustrator: Marcus Pfister
Publication Date: 1992
Genre: Fiction
Approx. Interest Level: K-2, 3-5
Approx. Text Level: Guided Reading Level M
Teaser: Rainbow fish learns the value of sharing and making friends when he encounters several fish who are jealous of his shiny scales.
Teaching Lesson: Students can create their own rainbow fish by using different colors of glitter and cut outs of scales to glue on their own fish. Students will also be taught how to share because they will have to share the different colors of glitter with each other in order to create their own rainbow fish.

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Author: Derek Munson
Illustrator: Tara Calahan King
Publication Date: 2000
Genre: Fiction
Approx. Interest Level: K-2
Approx. Text Level: Guided Reading Level M
Teaser: Have you ever had an enemy that you didn't like and wanted to know how to not make them your enemy anymore? Well this is the perfect book for you because when Jeremy Ross moves into a new house and has an enemy, his dad teaches him his recipe for his famous enemy pie. This book helps kids when dealing with someone they may not like, and stresses the importance of making friends. It is a great book on teaching kids how to treat others who they may not know much about.
Teaching Lesson: Have students create their own recipe of things they can do to make friends and to treat people they don't know. You can combine all of their ideas to create one big class recipe for a class enemy pie and you can hang it up in the classroom to remind the students.

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Author: Barney Saltzberg
Illustrator: Barney Saltzberg
Publication Date: 2003
Genre: Fiction
Approx. Interest Level:K-2
Approx. Text Level: Guided reading level L
Teaser: Stanley is so excited for crazy hair day at school and is more prepared then anyone. He dyed his hair and made it looks all kinds of crazy and was so excited, until he walks into the classroom and realized that crazy hair day was next week. Not only is today not crazy hair day, but today is picture day. What does Stanley do in this embarrassing situation? Does he continue to take his picture? How does he react when everyone sees him with his crazy hair? This book is great for teaching students about bullying and how to treat others who are different.
Teaching Lesson: Have students draw their own pictures of Stanley with crazy hair. Then discuss with the students why everyone has a different picture of Stanley with different colors and things in his hair. This lesson would be to show students that everyone is different inside and out, but that doesn't make them any different from us.

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Teaser: This song about friends is great to sing with your students when talking about friendship. It is very catchy and the students will all want to sing and dance along with you. It focuses on friendship and how important it is to work together as a team .
Teaching lesson: Have students stand in a circle and create dance moves to go along with the song. They can all sing and dance along as they learn the importance of the song which is to work together and make friends. The kids will enjoy this video as well because it is very cute and also has the lyrics to help them sing along.

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The Singing Walrus - English Songs For Kids

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Friends Song | Verbs Song for Kids | The Singing Walrus