Social Emotional Learning

Books Assist in Developing Social and Emotional

Learning Skills

Preschool through Grade 4 represents a unique time of openness for children to discover and practice ways to undertake life’s challenges in a healthy, productive, and cooperative manner. Books, and the stories within them, provide natural and effective guidance to help children learn and understand the facets of social emotional learning, including self-respect, self-management, empathy, social skills, and decisionmaking. A Whole Bunch of Values and What Would You Do? by Jennifer Moore-Mallinos and published by Loyola Press, are two books lauded by teachers and parents alike that engage and invite children to be curious, ask questions, and embrace differences in positive ways. Loyola Press offers additional activities and content for each book that are available for download free of charge.

A Whole Bunch of Values is a delightful book that teaches children about 46 values and encourages them to define their own personal values while embracing the differences of others.

In What Would You Do? children explore some everyday dilemmas, practice making difficult decisions, and understand the consequences of the choices they make.

Editor’s Note: Loyola Press is also the publisher of Voyages in English, a Grades K to 8 grammar and writing curriculum authored by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.