LifeStories for Kids™ 3-5
LifeStories for KidsTM 3-5 brings tales of social challenge to life in the classroom. This captivating, school-based curriculum weaves together the best of academic, psychological, artistic, and literary media into a single package that uniquely combines evidence-based practices for skill building with the engaging and ancient art of storytelling. The result is an easy-to-use teaching tool that guides 3-5 classrooms to explore, enhance, and reinforce understanding of character, prosocial and emotional skills, while enriching the academic curriculum.
Featuring nationally acclaimed storytellers Willy Claflin, Donna Washington, and Olga Loya (Meet the Storytellers), LifeStories for Kids 3-5 is an academically challenging and prosocial addition to any 3-5 classroom.
Each LifeStories for KidsTM 3-5 Kit includes:
• Professional Manual
• Administrative Guidelines
• 9 Session Outlines complete with:
o FX Discussion Topics
o Creative Storytelling Activity
o Write-On Worksheet
o Explor-A-Story Worksheet
o Word Herd
• 27 Full Color Story Posters
• Full Color Story Mapping Poster provides the classroom with a visual key to the icons used in the story mapping activity; an engaging technique to diagramming stories that children love.
• Free LifeStories for Kids 3-5 Subscription to online training and download of additional materials
Benefits of LifeStories for Kids 3-5
Stories, read or told, have always been a primary teaching tool of educators, particularly for early elementary children. Storytelling is one of children’s favorite modes of communication and stories are a natural way to engage children in the educational process. Storytelling is particularly applicable to the complex and abstract traits taught through character education.
Product Samples
Click the links for samples pages (.pdf) from the LifeStories for Kids 3-5 kit.
