Benable — create shareable lists of things you recommend!
E.g., products you love, local businesses, travel recs - you can add anything to a Benable list!
Smart Book Picks for Elementary Students 📚
17
items Looking for powerful theme-related read alouds that will generate great conversations among your elementary students (child)? These books invite them to reflect and ask questions. They are also perfect for building a positive classroom community. Che...
Sections
4
Kindness / Acceptance
Individuality
Courage / Perseverance
Bullies/Enemies
Kindness / Acceptance
It's important for students to learn how to be kind. Sometimes, teachers and parents think that students should naturally know how to do this, but that isn't always true. Kindness has to be taught through modeling and explaining. Here are great books...
The Invisible Boy is a book about a boy who feels left out (invisible) at school. He is even often overlooked by his teacher because he is so quiet and always behaves. When a new student comes to his school, it changes everything for him. The illustr...
The Invisible Boy
Be Kind takes you through a child's understanding of how to be kind. She shares examples of ways that she thinks can show kindness to others. #ad
Be Kind
Often, students can be mean or not as welcoming to new students. Each Kindness teaches them to be empathetic and welcoming towards new students – understanding that it's difficult to be new. If they aren't, they could end up regretting how they treated someone but have no way of repairing the damage. #ad
Each Kindness
In Chester's Way, Chester and his friend Wilson learns that while it's great to have your own preferences about how things should be done, you must also be open and accepting of other's ideas. Chester and Wilson quickly learn that it's okay to accept...
Chester's Way
Individuality
Individuality is extremely important. We're in an era where copying what everyone else is doing is often encouraged especially on social media. It's important for students to know that you want them to be themselves. You don't want a carbon copy of the same students throughout your classroom.
Amazing Grace is part of a series of Grace books. They are all excellent books that teach valuable lessons! This book teaches self confidence as Grace wants the part of Peter Pan in her class play, but she is told by her peers that she can't because ...
Amazing Grace (Grace-picture Books)
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun teaches the importance of students respecting each other's differences. It also teaches that it is okay to be different and that we shouldn't try to do things like everyone else just to fit in with them. #affiliate
Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun: Courage To Be You
Younger and even sometimes older students will want to mimic students who they feel are pretty/handsome or the most popular. This book teaches the importance of each student understanding that they are unique and special, so there shouldn't be any re...
Ruby the Copycat
Students whose names may be different from others face often face challenges. They have others mispronouncing or making fun of their name. That is what Unhei wants to avoid in this book. She decides that changing her name to a more common American na...
The Name Jar
Name are important. Chrysanthemum is a book about a little girl who faces challenges because other students are making fun of her name. She learns to appreciate her name. #affiliate
Chrysanthemum
Students of different cultures can sometimes feel out of place when others are looking down on their unique differences. The Day You Begin teaches students to be proud of who they and the importance of celebrating their cultural differences. #affilia...
The Day You Begin
Courage / Perseverance
When students realize they have a weakness in a particular area, it often makes them want to give up and not try. Teaching them the importance of persevering, despite obstacles, is extremely important.
Thank You, Mr. Falker is a book that makes you remember why you became a teacher. This book shows students how Patricia perseveres in the midst of major obstacles, with the help of her teacher. It teaches the importance of not giving up and of also n...
Thank You, Mr. Falker
Giraffes Can't Dance is a cute story to teach the importance of having courage and not giving up despite what others may think. #ad
Giraffes Can't Dance
The Dot is the perfect read aloud for an art class or any class to teach perseverance in the midst of obstacles. Vashti doesn't believe that she can draw, but she quickly learns that she knows more than she thinks she does, and it all began with a do...
The Dot
Bullies/Enemies
Whether it's a child in the neighborhood or a student on the school playground, everyone will encounter a bully at some point. These books teach them various ways to handle bullies or someone they feel is an enemy.
The Recess Queen is a book about a bully who has full control of the school playground until a new student comes in and isn't as afraid of her as the other students are. It teaches students that bullies aren't always bullies deep down inside. Sometim...
The Recess Queen
This is a book I used to discuss the importance of students not allowing bullies to have control by keeping silent about what they're doing. It also shows students that bullies are only bullies because they are dealing with personal issues. They're s...
Bully B.E.A.N.S. (Revised Edition)
Sometimes students will have enemies and they don't even know why or how they became their enemies…lol. This book shows students that often if you simply get to know someone, you just might find out that you'll really like them. #affiliate
Enemy Pie: Children's Book about Kindness
Often younger students have a difficult time understanding who a true friend is and one who isn't really their friend. A friend isn't someone who is nice to you when it's just the two of you together, but they're mean to you when you're around other ...
My Secret Bully