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  What Do You Stand For?
A Guide to Building Character
Barbara A. Lewis
Learn how to teach for character and raise good kids in a time of declining moral values. These valuable books invite kids and teens to explore and practice honesty, kindness, integrity, tolerance, respect, and more. Inspiring quotations, challenging dilemmas, activities, and true stories of real kids help students explore what they stand for at school, at home, and in their community. Students are encouraged to understand themselves better, develop the traits that are most important to them, and become their best selves. |
For Kids (Grades 2–6)
172 pages. DLWSK • $15
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For Teens (Grades 5–12)
284 pages. DLWSF • $20
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Character Cards
(Grades 3–8)
Foster positive virtues through the study of celebrated individuals who portray the best of humanity. Your students will learn about Mother Teresa's selflessness, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s dream, and Christa McAuliffe's courage. Each six-page card includes a reproducible story about the celebrity focusing on his/her desirable character traits, ready-to-do activities based on Kagan Structures, reproducible higher-level thinking, vocabulary builders, and writing ideas. Bring out the best in your students! $4 each.
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Character Building
Activities
for Kids
Ready-to-Use Character Education Lessons & Activities
Darlene Mannix (Grades K–6)
This straight-forward resource gives teachers, counselors, and parents over 140 common-sense lessons with reproducible activities for developing traits selected as representative of good character, such as honesty, generosity and fairness. This guide is organized into three sections focusing on respect for self, respect for others, and a positive outlook on life. Each lesson defines a specific character trait, shows children how to recognize the trait, and provides opportunities for children to apply the trait in their own daily lives. 400 pages. DMCBA • $30 |
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First Class Character Education
Activities Program
Ready-to-Use Lessons & Activities
Michael D. Koehler & Karen E. Royer (Grades 7–12)
This resource gives secondary teachers and counselors 95 ready-to-use lessons with reproducible activity sheets to promote healthy character development in students. Major topics covered include: the nature of good character, student behavior, motivation, communication, family involvement, anger management, stress reduction, dealing with failure, impulse control, violence, prejudice, discrimination, stereotyping and sexual harassment, self-understanding and self-acceptance, caring about the school, using appropriate language, maintaining personal appearance, and volunteering. 432 pages. DKRFC • $32 |
 Character Education 15 Poster Set
Use these attractive 11" x 17" posters to teach your students the meaning of 15 of the most desirable character virtues. Each poster defines a virtue in words your students will understand. Motivate your students to be the best they can be. Decorate your classroom. Post all 15 around the classroom, create a character bulletin board, or keep the posters on a flip chart so you can flip to the virtue you want to spotlight for the week or month. Printed on durable poster paper. PCE • $19
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 Choices
A Cooperative Conflict Resolution Game
Colleen C. Uhl (All Grades)
Teach your students how to solve their own conflicts! Each team receives a set of Team Conflict Strips, each with a cooperative learning conflict scenario. Teams use Choice Cards to discuss and prioritize solutions to the conflict. Teams can generate their own conflict scenarios, use actual conflicts they encounter as they work together, and come up with their own choices to solve the conflicts. Each team also receives Personal Conflict Strips so students can work on the conflicts they face in "real life." Choices provides students with a positive model for dealing with conflicts, and equips them with a simple, valuable life skill—the power to choose! Includes enough games for nine teams. MCUC • $20 |
 Growing Good Kids Book & CD-ROM
28 Activities to Enhance Self-Awareness, Compassion, and Leadership
Deb Delisle and Jim Delisle (Grades 3–8)
Created by teachers and classroom-tested, these fun and meaningful enrichment activities build children's skills in problem solving, decision making, cooperative learning, divergent thinking, and communication while promoting self-awareness, tolerance, character development, and service. Kids create books, write stories, resolve to help others, explore their own values, discover why mistakes can sometimes be beneficial, practice patience, and more in projects that combine enjoyment with learning. Includes 33 reproducible handout and transparency masters. 168 pages. DDGGK • $30 |
WiseSkills
A Comprehensive Character-Building Program
The most comprehensive character-building curriculum available! Build a strong foundation of good character. Inside these comprehensive, grade-specific, tabbed notebooks, you will find quotations, interdisciplinary projects, discussion topics, class activities, and reproducibles for each of the following WiseSkills: positive attitude, respect, responsibility, self-discipline, relationships, personal goals, citizenship, conflict resolution. |
 Family Wisdom: Newsletters & Activities to Help Families Build Character
(Grades K–5)
270 pages.
DWSF • $95
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 Wisdom for Life: Becoming a Person of Character
(Grades 9–12)
298 pages.
DWSH • $95
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 WiseLives: Learning from the Words and Lives of World Figures
(Grades 6–8)
266 pages.
DWSM • $95
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 WiseQuotes:
Skills for Building Positive Character (Grades 3–5)
244 pages.
DWSI • $95
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 WiseWords: Wisdom for Making Good Choices
(Grades K–2)
230 pages.
DWSP • $95
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