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

• The Links Between Social and Emotional Learning and Literacy
  Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
  ARTICLE | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (subscription required)
• Promoting Emergent Literacy and Social–Emotional Learning Through Dialogic Reading
  Brooke Graham Doyle and Wendie Bramwell
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (subscription required)
• Picturebooks and Emotional Literacy
  Maria Nikolajeva
  ARTICLE | The Reading Teacher (subscription required)
• Shared Book Reading in Preschools
  Dorit Aram
  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)
• What Did You Do? What Did You Say?: Engaging Students in Brave Conversations
  Crystal P. Glover and Katie Kelly
  ARTICLE | Literacy Today (member magazine)
• Using YA Literature to Help Preservice Teachers Deal With Bullying and Suicide
  Kristine E. Pytash
  ARTICLE | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (subscription required)
• Promoting Empathetic Reading With Between Shades of Gray Through a Global Blogging Project
  Melissa Schieble and Lolita Kucinskiene
  ARTICLE | Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (subscription required)
• Shaping an Empathetic World
  Ruth McCoy Lowery
  ARTICLE | Literacy Today (member magazine)
• Literacy Today: Shaping the Future
  ISSUE | Literacy Today (member magazine)