Social-Emotional Learning

When social-emotional learning is integrated throughout literacy instruction, a classroom culture is created that leads to not only greater academic success but also more empathetic, caring, and motivated learners.

Additional Resources for SEL in the Literacy Classroom

• Building Emotional Literacy Through Dungeons & Dragons
  Antero Garcia, Stefan McNinch, Lizz Simpson, and Kade C. Wells
  FREE WEBINAR
• The Links Between Social and Emotional Learning and Literacy
  Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
  ARTICLE | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (free for subscribers)
• Promoting Emergent Literacy and Social–Emotional Learning Through Dialogic Reading
  Brooke Graham Doyle and Wendie Bramwell
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (free for subscribers)
• Picturebooks and Emotional Literacy
  Maria Nikolajeva
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (free for subscribers)
• Exploring Multicultural Picturebooks With Social–Emotional Themes
  AnnMarie Alberton Gunn, Susan V. Bennett, Barbara J. Peterson
  INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE (member resource)
• How to Raise and Teach Anti-Racist Kids
  Facilitated by Kwame Alexander and featuring Cornelius Minor, Tiffany M. Jewell, Pam Allyn, Noni Thomas López, and Karyn Parsons
  FREE WEBINAR
• The Power of Family Involvement in Literacy Learning
  Diane Lapp
  INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE (member resource)
• Literacy (Dis)Orientations in a Secondary Classroom: Possibilities and Limits of an Intersectional LGBTQ+-Inclusive Curriculum
  Ryan Schey
  ARTICLE | Reading Research Quarterly (open access)
• Using YA Literature to Help Preservice Teachers Deal With Bullying and Suicide
  Kristine E. Pytash
  ARTICLE | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (free for subscribers)
• “Let Me Just Close My Eyes”: Challenged and Banned Books, Claimed Identities, and Comics
  Ashley K. Dallacqua
  ARTICLE | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (free for subscribers)
• Shaping an Empathetic World
  Ruth McCoy Lowery
  ARTICLE | Literacy Today (member magazine)
• Literacy Today: Shaping the Future
  ISSUE | Literacy Today (member magazine)