Promoting childrens health requires attention to all areas of childrens development. As teachers of young children, we need to intentionally include strategies that support childrens well-being in the curriculum and be proactive in terms of supporting social and emotional competence. For this assignment you will be focusing on childrens well-being and researching a childrens library for resources to help you develop effective learning activities that promote childrens social and emotional competence.
To prepare for this application activity you will need to:
Read the following article and review the factors that should be taken into account when making book selections.
. Available from https://www.adl.org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/assessing-childrens-literature
Locate the childrens library at one of the larger public libraries in our community, such as County Library. (or online)
To complete this assignment successfully, you will need to:
Complete Application Activity #3 (page 35) from the text that asks you to:
Select and read ten childrens books from the Mental Health section in Appendix D of your text that you feel also meet the criteria outlined in the article Assessing Childrens Literature.
Prepare a brief annotation/report for each book including:
Author
Date
Title
Illustrator
Publisher
Topic/theme
Evaluation including how it aligns with recommendations shared in the article “Assessing Children’s Literature” by the Anti-Defamation League.
Choose one of the books you provided an annotation for and develop it into a lesson plan.
Use the FTCC Lesson Plan Form to develop an activity that promotes childrens social-emotional competence.
Identify at least one appropriate NCFELD Domain, Goal and five Developmental Indicators that aligns with your activity. NCFELD is available from:
Submit the 10 annotations and the Lesson Plan.
