Early Reader Books About Kindness Growing

Inside: Use these Early Reader books about kindness in this Growing Bundle to help you teach sel curriculum to your students.

Our students can read random non-fiction expository text OR they can read about character education.

This Early Reader Books all about Kindness Growing Bundle Set all about kindness uses more advanced vocabulary and is the perfect addition to sel learning. It’s a great way to introduce kids to character education and social-emotional curriculum.

Students can read about how and why they should speak and act with kindness at school and at home with these early reader student books that come in color and black and white as a beginning activity.

These early readers use more advanced language to describe an essential concept: being kind, being compassionate, and treating others how you want to be treated. This is perfect for first grade-3rd grade students.

Why teaching students about kindness is crucial:

Students who do not feel safe in our classrooms and in our school will never be able to learn.

If they are being teased or bullied or isolated on the playground, they won’t feel confident to raise their hand, participate in class, and take a chance at being wrong.

Students don’t know how to deal with tricky social situations on the playground. They don’t know how to stand up for themselves or stand up to bullies. They don’t know how to deal with “mean girls” or how to include someone on the playground.

We have to teach them how to be kind in our classroom.

We hang kindness posters up in our classrooms and hallways and maybe even have Kindness Week. But it’s not enough. We have to intentionally teach students how to be kind. How to not be a bully. How to stand up to bullies. How to be a good friend.

Sure, we could argue that these skills should be taught at home. But for so many students, these skills aren’t being taught at home. So if we don’t teach them, our students are missing a key component to learning: how to be a good person.

So as teachers, we can change this. We have the power to not only teach our students the state standards. We can also teach them how to speak and act with kindness more often. It’ll make our classrooms kinder places to be.

And it’ll make sure all of our students feel welcomed, included, and safe so they come to school ready to learn those state standards.

So we can read kindness books and bullying prevention books and includer books.

We can use these kindness bookmarks and get our students to make these kindness pencils.

We can teach them kindness vocabulary with this Kindness Dictionary, we can play Trash or Kindness to help them decide what is kind and what isn’t, and we can get them to be kind every day with this 100 Days of Kindness.

And we can hang up kindness posters in our classroom and these A-Z Kindness Posters.

Each book in this Early Reader {Growing} Bundle Set comes with:

student copy of the early reader in color and black and white (22 books)
discussion starters to continue the conversation
2 creative writing prompts to connect to the topic for kindness writing

This is a Growing Bundle which means you will get everything that is in there now, AND all the new books we add soon at no extra cost.

Get this bundle now before we add more early reader book sets and the price goes up.

The Topics Included in the Early Readers Growing Bundle for SEL Curriculum include:

I am Kind at School
I am Kind at School (Covid Edition)
I can Volunteer
I Speak With Kindness
I am a Helper
I am Kind Online
I am Kind on the Playground
I can Deal with Bullies
Thank you, Essential Workers
We are All Different
I am a Kind Kid
I am Kind at Home (coming soon)
I am a Kind Sibling (coming soon)
I am a Good Friend (coming soon)
I am Kind in the Cafeteria (coming soon)
I am a Kind Kid
I make Kind Choices (coming soon)
I can Stand Up to Peers (coming soon)
I am Mindful of Others (coming soon)
I am Compassionate (coming soon)

Need simpler language for younger students? Get our Emergent Reader Kindness Growing Bundle Set here.

Using the Early Reader Books About Kindness:

Purchase and choose which early reader you want to start with. Then print out the early readers. You’ll need to print out half the number you need because there are two copies on each sheet.

You can choose between the color or black and white version.

Cut the pages apart and collate the pages.

Staple the books together in the binding.

If you’ve used the black and white version, encourage the kids to color the pages. We love using these skin-colored crayons.

Then with your students, read the early reader together. Review any vocabulary they don’t know yet and review the concepts in the book.

After the group read, for more practice students can partner read, read them independently, and read them to a class pet or a class stuffed animal. They can also read them to younger students if you’re in a buddy cross-age program with other teachers.

Continue Using the Early Reader Sets and Character Education

To continue the conversation about character education and social-emotional concepts like volunteering and helping, use the discussion starters that come with each early reader.

You can also use these 60 Kindness Discussion Starters.

Students can also use one of the two writing prompts with each of the early reader topics to show what they know and write about what they’re learned.