Self-Awareness and Personal Discovery Books for Kids

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SEL learning strategies are are very important to incorporate into the classroom. I have mentioned three books that are SEL children's literature. Having literature that are SEL based, is one of the best ways to have SEL learning strategies in your classroom. 

What If We Were All The Same! by C.M. Harris

What If We Were All the Same is a book about embracing the differences everyone has. The differences include height, hair, abilities, food, and even more. If everyone was the same, then the world would be a boring place. The lesson that ties into this book is that children need to embrace their differences, they don’t need to look and act like other children. Everyone needs to be themselves. This book might support personal growth for young readers because it teaches children to accept who they are and that they don’t need to change themselves. The children can grow up remembering this. The lesson of this book not only allows children to accept who they are and their differences. But this book can also teach children to embrace and love other children’s differences. They can teach other children to love who they are and to not change who they are. This book could promote children a sense of being a successful reader because they could read this book individually or in a group and embrace the message behind it. They can read about different traits, features, or things that everyone has that makes everyone who they are.

Harris, C. M. (2023). What if we were all the same! - booktopia. What If We Were All The Same! https://www.booktopia.com.au/what-if-we-were-all-the-same--c-m-harris/book/9781735537245.html 

Different - A Great Thing to Be by Heather Avis

Different- A Great Thing to Be is a book about a girl names Macy. She is like everyone around her, but she is also different in her own way, but she loves that she is different. Macy eventually finds who she is and where she belongs by using kindness, grace, and bravery. She makes everyone around her laugh and find their beauty and shows people that it’s okay to be different. This book allows children to support personal growth because they can realize that it’s okay to be different and that they should embrace it. Being different makes them who they are and that they should love themselves. This book teaches a lesson of respecting differences among other children because it teaches them that since they may have differences, then other children have differences to and that it’s okay. That children shouldn’t make fun of other children for having differences, no one is the same. This book might offer experiences to students that promote being a successful reader because they will learn different traits or features that people can have. This allows them to tie in what they read to what they see in their everyday life.

Avis, H. (2023). Different book. Heather Avis. https://www.heatheravis.com/different 

The Crayons Books of Feelings by Drew Daywalt

The Crayons Book of Feelings book is about feelings. It teaches children all the different feelings and how to express their own feelings. The crayons in the book each have a different emotion and it allows the children to show their emotions when introducing a new emotion that is mentioned in the book. This book supports personal growth because it teaches children to express their emotions and that it’s okay to have those feelings. You may have a different emotion every day or have different emotions in one day. This book teaches a lesson of respecting differences in other children because not every child will have the same feeling each day. While some children can be happy, some other children can be mad or upset. This book will allow children to promote being a successful reader by learning about the different emotions, knowing its okay to have those emotions, and how to use those emotions correctly.

Daywalt, D. (2023). The crayons’ Book of feelings by Drew Daywalt: 9780593404676: Penguinrandomhouse.com: Books. PenguinRandomhouse.com. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/672982/the-crayons-book-of-feelings-by-drew-daywalt-illustr...

Citations are listed below each book description.