Be Kind Online: New Bundle!

This is a series of posts that will eventually encompass an entire year's worth of lessons!


To start, how do we teach students to be kind online?
Take stock - do you teach your students to be kind online?
What kind of lessons do you use?
Do the students regurgitate the answers back to you, but then make bad decisions online in real time?
How do we teach students not online how to keep themselves safe (stranger danger - private versus personal information, etc.), but also kind?

Enter the Be Kind Online Bundle!

Guides with pre-reading, during reading, reflection, and connection points to encourage conversation and learning! Activities to get students thinking and able to apply what they've learned when online and real life collide!

1. Troll Stinks by Jeanne Willis (get it now: tinyurl.com/trollstinks)
2. Once Upon a Time. Online: Happily Ever After Is Only a Click Away! by David Bedford (find it here: tinyurl.com/bekind2)
3. Monkey Walk by Colleen Madden (coming soon!)
4. Forgive Me, I Meant to Do It : False Apology Poems by Gail Carson Levine and Matthew Cordell (coming soon!)

Buy the bundle and save!
A little preview:


Comment on this blog post and the first 5 commenters will get the bundle for free! 

Can't wait to hear from you! 

#SSoD A Heapin’ Helping of Non-Fiction

Saturday Save or Delete (#SSoD) Google Keep Post:
How many of you use Google Keep? I am a big fan, but end up with thousands of links, and nothing to really show for it. I also save things on Facebook, Instagram, my browser bookmarks, and more! These #SSoD posts are going to be a kind of pensieve to gather my thoughts in one place so I can come back to them!

#SSoD Post:
A Heapin’ Helping of Non-Fiction
https://yabooksandmoreblog.wordpress.com/2018/05/30/a-heapin-helping-of-non-fiction/

Written by Naomi Bates

Posted:  May 30, 2018 

Created: May 30, 2018

Read: June 20, 2018 

I am working on building out better lists of what we call "narrative nonfiction", and had saved this link to go back to later. In this article, the author lists 5 nonfiction titles, as she loved nonfiction as a child, and still does.

"But what has changed in the format of non-fiction.  It’s more narrative and comes in hardcopy or graphic novel.  It comes as stand-alones or in series.  It’s also disguised as great fiction too!"

I am not sure if the titles will be appropriate for my 6th - 8th groupers, but I definitely want to read Our Hearts Were Young and Gay by Cornelia Otis Skinner. Personally, I enjoy historical fiction, and this title chronicles 2 women in the 1920s. Flappers and strong women? Sign me up!

I have been thinking about the Nonfiction Family Tree (right) and working on incorporating more read-alouds that center around nonfiction. I'm also playing around with an idea to read different picture book biographies, and traditional biographies. Then to compare and contrast, decide what information is important (and what's not, and why) and then write our own as a class, on the woman who founded our school, but I digress 😜