Book
List of books relevant to Social-Emotional skills. Topics include accepting different friends, feelings, confidence, behavior expectations, relationships, problem solving, bullying, teasing, grief, death.
Each literature circle is responsible for submitting one group notebook that contains all of the work that the group has done concerning the novel study.
Picture Books
Brave Irene by William Steig
Bridget and the Gray Wolves by Pija Lindendaum
The Gunniwolf by Wilhelmina Harper
Heckedy Peg by Audrey Wood
Ira Sleeps Over by Bernard Waber
Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse by Kevin Henkes
The Minpins by Roald Dahl
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCully
Tikki Tikki Tembo by Arlene Mosel
The Whingdingdilly by Bill Peet
Grades K-3
Chocolate Fever by Robert K. Smith
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson by Bette Bao Lord
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Littles by John Peterson
Mr. Popper’s Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
Poppy by Avi
Shoeshine Girl by Clyde Robert Bulla
Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner
The Stories Julian Tells by Ann Cameron
Stuart Little by E.B. White
Grades 4+
Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
Frindle by Andrew Clements
The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes
Keeper of the Doves by Betsy Byars
Listening for Lions by Gloria Whelan
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O’Brien
Printable bookmark template: Name, Title, Author; List favorite or important pages, quotes, scenes, interesting or unknown words.
