Young Person’s Character Education Handbook

Edited (2005, JIST Works, 16.95)
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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]

Values for Life: Ready-to-Use Reproducible Character Education Activities

by Amy Keller & Gene Floersch (2004, Bureau for At-Risk Youth, 36.95/spiral)
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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]

Kids' Value Pack...Book & CD

by Caroline Figiel, et al. (2003, MarCo, 28.95 or 13.95/book only)
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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]

Character Education...Grades 4-6: The Ladder to Success

by Leland Graham, et al. (2004, Carson-Dellosa, 10.99)
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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]

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)
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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]

"Bee” Your Best with Character Ed: A Year Long School-Wide Program for Character Building

by Betts Gatewood & Diane Senn (2001, YouthLight, 30.95)
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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]

The C-A-R-E Project: Conflict and Responsibility Education

by Gerri Holden (2002, Teaching & Learning, 12.95)
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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]

Character Building Activities for Kids

by Darlene Mannix (2002, Ctr. for App. Research in Ed., 29.95)
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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]

Character Education Activities for K-6 Classrooms

by Sandra Peyser & Miriam McLaughlin (1997, Educational Media, 9.95)
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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]

Building Character Schoolwide: Creating a Caring Community in Your School

by Rudy Bernardo, et al. (2003, Character Development Group, 19.00)
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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]

Character Education in America's Schools

by Terri Akin, et al. (1995, Innerchoice, 35.00)
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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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