Picture Books About Kindness
Any time of year is the perfect time to work in picture books about kindness! Children love to read books that they can relate to and teachers love when that book teaches them an underlying lesson about making good choices.
I’ve complied here a list of my favorite books that focus on a theme of kindness. These books for elementary students are perfect discussion starters for social emotional learning. There is a free graphic organizer download below that can work with ANY of these books!
Picture Books About Kindness
When choosing a book to teach a social emotional skill there is usually two main options. There are books that are obviously written about the trait and explaining it. Then there are books that SHOW the skill through a story. Depending on your lesson and age group they can all lead to really meaningful lessons!
Lesson Picture Books where the focus SEL skill is obvious
Kindness to Others
I share a free lesson and reading activities for this book on my blog post here!
Kindness to The World
Kindness to Self
Ideas for a Kindness Read Aloud Lesson
- use these books in an interactive read aloud to model thinking about the acts of kindness as you are reading
- teach making connections to help students think about when they have seen these types of kindness
- use graphic organizers to discuss and recognize the kindness aspects in the books
Get access to the graphic organizers here for free!
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