Sharing the Blue Crayon ─ How to Integrate Social, Emotional, and Literacy Learning

Buckley, an elementary teacher, explains how to incorporate social and emotional learning into elementary classrooms and integrate these skills into literacy lessons. She uses a program called a friendship workshop to help children identify and regulate their emotions. She outlines its format, which uses a mini-lesson that focuses on a specific social or emotional skill--getting along in groups, empathy, kindness, peacefulness, responsibility, self-control, perseverance, and giving and receiving feedback--and describes how to extend the workshop to literacy lessons. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)