dancing kids
Social and Emotional Development
                                          Social and Emotional Development  aisle7.htm
 

      girl laughing   
Take A Stand for Kids   www.task.org
 Institute For Child Development www.cdipage.com
 Emotional Development From Cambridge University Press
 
 

      father and son  Something About Those Stories 
    One way to encourage children's morality is reading stories about lessons in life.  In the world we live in today many childen don't understand the value of putting someone else first.  Stories are a way for children to want to improve themselves.   These stories inspire people to want to be a certain type of person or not a certain type of person- to be brave, kind, and loving; no to be cowardly, rude, and bitter.   Stories help people to remember the moral of life, inside the story.  Stories work because it puts the child in the scene, like the way a drama touches a person's heart.
 

Recommended Stories
Beginng Readers                                 &nb sp;                              Middle Readers                                        Older Readers
Beauty and the Beast                                &nb sp;                   A Girl Called Al                                      Old Yeller
The Hare and the Tortoise                               &nbs p;            The Chronicles of Narnia                         The Hero and the Crown
The Boy Who Cried Wolf                                & nbsp;           The Hundred Dresses                               Warrior Scarlet
Keep the Light Burning, Abbie                                       Snow Treasure                                        The Choosen
The Little Match Girl                                &n bsp;                  Tuck Everlasting                                      Cheaper by the Dozen
The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing                               & nbsp;        Island of the Blue Dolphins                       April Morning

Lisa Medal, Windy Lovell, & Tom Dobson
Group 5, CD 292