Increase 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.

Learn more about the instructional plan.