Increase middle school students' understanding of other perspectives and cultures.
Voices Literature & Character Education Teacher Resource Guides for award-winning culturally diverse trade book titles contain innovative instruction for integrating social and emotional learning, literacy, writing, and character education.
Teacher Resource Guides include:
comprehension and writing activities aligned with common core and state language arts standards.
activities and discussions to stimulate social and emotional learning.
cooperative learning through partner, small-group, and whole-class activities.
writing prompts for expository, narrative, persuasive, descriptive, and literature response.
opportunities to foster oral language, listening, vocabulary development, and fluency.
short essay questions to monitor listening or reading skills.
cross-curricular connections.
bibliographies of related books and references for students and teachers.
ideas for research and community service projects.