Each Kindness is part of our Starts With a Story Collection, which includes more than 550 picture book companions based on high quality children’s literature that support you in delivering highly-engaging interactive read alouds with follow up activities. Learn more about this children’s book below! - Jodi and the Starts With a Story Team
SUMMARY
"Each Kindness" by Jacqueline Woodson is a poignant story that explores the impact of kindness and missed opportunities for compassion. The book follows Chloe, a young girl who initially ignores and rejects the friendship of a new student named Maya. As Chloe and her classmates participate in small acts of unkindness towards Maya, they learn about the concept of kindness from their teacher. However, it is too late for Chloe to make amends, as Maya's family moves away and Chloe is left with a profound sense of regret. The book serves as a powerful reminder of the importance of empathy, kindness, and the lasting effects of our actions on others. It encourages readers to reflect on their own behaviors and to seize every opportunity to be kind and inclusive.
 USE THIS BOOK TO TEACH:
Our read aloud lesson plans for this picture book come with reading comprehension questions (with sample student responses), 30 writing prompts, teaching ideas for grammar skills, social emotional learning discussion ideas, and more. Check out our list below to get a sneak peek at some of the skills this resource teaches.
- Encourage students to use their summarizing and retelling strategies.
- Discuss the different characters in the story and analyze their thoughts and actions.
- Help students to analyze what the author’s purpose for writing the book might be.
- Teach a lesson on verb tense and have students categorize examples from the book.
- Teach students about sentence structure.
- Share strategies and tools for bullying situations.
- Discuss the importance of kindness.
NO-PREP PRINTABLE ACTIVITIES:
If you are looking for “ready to go” activities for the first day of school, be sure to check out the book companion. With it you’ll receive all of the following resources to align with this specific book:
- comprehension questions
- 30Â writing prompts with themed paper
- vocabulary activities
- word study print & go activities
- ideas for grammar lessons with focus sentence printables
- social emotional learning discussion topics
- graphic organizers to target specific comprehension skills and strategies
This book is a must have for your school or classroom library. Your students are going to love completing these activities for the book and you will be impressed with how much they learn. You will want to read this book to your class every year.
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ADDITIONAL BOOK SUGGESTIONS
You and your students will love the similar books listed below, which can all be found in our free picture book list.
- Be Kind by Pat Zietlow Miller
- The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig
- Those Shoes by Maribeth BoeltsÂ
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