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Here you'll will find new ideas, humor, fillers, tips,
new books, activities, and all sorts of things that our subscribers "pass-along."
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Character-Building Activities...
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Young Person’s Character Education Handbook
Edited (2005, JIST Works, 16.95)
[Check/Credit Card Price...Less 21% = 13.39]
This lively handbook is an essential resource to help elementary and middle school students grasp why character is important and how it contributes to success in school, at home, and in life. Helps young people understand, care about, and act with character. Color. Grades 4-9. [7.5” x 9.5”...313 pages]
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Values for Life: Ready-to-Use Reproducible Character Education Activities
by Amy Keller & Gene Floersch (2004, Bureau for At-Risk Youth,
36.95/spiral)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 29.19]
This book was previously offered as a set of five individual workbooks, but it is now one all-inclusive, reproducible activity book! Includes a CD to make it easier to print out these activities. Topics include: self-respect, respecting others, cooperation, responsibility and making good choices. Teaching guides included. Grades K-5. [8.5” x 11”...116
pages]
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Kids' Value Pack...Book & CD
by Caroline Figiel, et al. (2003, MarCo, 28.95 or 13.95/book only)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 22.87]
This book and CD pack uses music as the power to combine character education with important life skills. The lessons incorporate motor, listening, and decision-making skills as well as self-insight activities and vocabulary development. The manual incorporates each of the 12 songs into a lesson. [8.5” x 11”...56
pages]
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Character Education...Grades 4-6: The Ladder to Success
by Leland Graham, et al. (2004, Carson-Dellosa, 10.99)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 8.68]
Help students explore nine positive character traits that can
lead to success: self-discipline, kindness, respect, responsibility,
honesty, fairness, courage, perseverance, and citizenship. Examine
these traits together through a variety of activities, including
role-playing, discussion, literature connections, writing, and
a mini-play. Grades 4-6. [8.5” x 11”...96
pages]
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Teaching Children to Respect and Care for Others: An Elementary School Character Education Program Featuring Teachers As Catalysts and Mentors
by
Joe Wittmer & Mary Ann Clark (2002, Educational
Media, 24.95)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 19.71]
This character-education program uses teachers as catalysts
and mentors. The main components: attentive listening; empathic
understanding; respect, acceptance, and caring; validation and
acknowledgment; inviting questions; giving appropriate feedback;
and consequential decision making. An Instructor's
Guide full
of reproducibles is available for 16.95. Grades 1-6. [8.5” x
11”...176 pages]
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"Bee” Your Best with Character
Ed: A Year Long School-Wide Program for Character Building
by Betts Gatewood & Diane Senn (2001,
YouthLight, 30.95)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 24.45]
Let “Character Ed,” the friendly bee, help you and
your school staff provide a highly motivational, comprehensive
character education program. This book explores nine character
words, one for each month of the school year. The activities are
fun, thought provoking, and practical. It includes 18 class lessons,
9 parent letters, over 100 student activity pages, puppet scripts,
and “Bee Word” mini-posters. Grades K-5. [8.5”
x 11”...285 pages]
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The C-A-R-E Project: Conflict and Responsibility Education
by Gerri Holden (2002, Teaching & Learning,
12.95)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 10.23]
Games, puzzles, songs, posters, bulletin boards and kid-friendly
activity pages focus on character building, conflict management,
and problem-solving. Children will learn about managing anger,
dealing with rejection, showing respect, being a friend, and other
important life skills. Grades 1-4. [8.5” x 11”...112
pages]
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Character Building Activities for Kids
by
Darlene Mannix (2002, Ctr. for App. Research in Ed., 29.95)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 23.66]
Over 140 common-sense lessons with reproducible activities.
They are designed to help develop traits selected as representative
of good character, such as honesty, generosity, and fairness.
This guide is organized into three sections focusing on respect
for self, respect for others, and a positive outlook on life.
Each lesson defines a specific character trait, shows children
how to recognize the trait, and provides opportunities for children
to apply the trait in their own daily lives. Grades K-5. [8”
x 11”...416 pages]
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Character Education Activities for K-6 Classrooms
by Sandra Peyser & Miriam McLaughlin (1997, Educational
Media, 9.95)
[Check/Credit
Card Price...Less 21% = 7.86]
These activities can be used in the classroom, small groups,
or with individual students who need some remediation of their
character. The authors also offer suggestions for involving parents
and include a list of ideas to promote good character in the home. [5.5” x 8.5”...128
pages]
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Building Character Schoolwide: Creating a Caring Community in
Your School
by Rudy Bernardo, et al. (2003, Character Development
Group, 19.00)
[Check/Credit Card Price...Less
21% = 15.01]
This friendly book contains 38 weeks of character traits
such as Honesty, Respect, Responsibility, and Perseverance.
Each trait is defined and made the focus of daily activities,
quotes, and an annotated reading list. Grades 3-8. [8” x
11”...153 pages]
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Character Education in America's Schools
by Terri Akin, et al. (1995, Innerchoice, 35.00)
[Check/Credit Card Price...Less
21% = 27.65]
Activities are collected in six sections representing universal moral values: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, justice and fairness, citizenship. and caring. Each section contains 10 or more activities. Each of the various activities, stories, and role plays, encourage perspective-taking and moral reasoning and are designed to help students learn the language, understand the concepts, and practice the behaviors of a strong moral/ethical belief system. Reproducibles. Grades 1-8. [8” x
11”...170 pages]
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