Using 6 magic words, Joey and his friends learn to stand up for themselves and solve problems quickly. From name-calling to arguing to sexual harassment, they learn to be respectfully assertive. 
This book offers children directly assertive problem-solving strategies, confidence, and prosocial behavior. Discussion and activity ideas are included to help children extend their understanding of ways to stand up for themselves. Learning these concepts early will help children deal with future problems on their own.

Please Stop, I Don't Like That!

Education & Teaching

Sandy Ragona

Amy Tranel

Schools & Teaching

YouthLight, Inc.

When there is chronic absenteeism, it affects everyone, including the school culture, parents, classroom climate, and the community. This book is a manual to increase school attendance based on current research, which meets the NCLB requirements. Within this book, you will find a variety of activities and lessons that can be used for student individuals, small or large groups. The activities will help build a strong foundation for elementary students to understand that attendance is very important to success in school. They will develop insights and skills to help them increase their confidence, internal locus of control, and ability to maximize their school attendance and positive attitudes toward school and learning. Included in this book are: Goal Sheets Rap Song Student / Parent Info-Grams Reproducible Activities Student Worksheets Posters

Coming to School Is Really Cool

Stefani Weber

Joey enlists help from a group of his friends to assist a classmate who is being bullied. This heartwarming story helps remind students that they should not just stand by if they see a bullying situation. In this book, children learn how to respond appropriately and firmly to confront a bully and to rescue the child who is being targeted.  This colorfully-illustrated book provides strategies that can help children to become effective bystanders during bullying situations. It teaches five steps for children to follow when they notice someone else being bullied. Discussion questions and activity ideas are also included. The teachings in this book will empower children to be more than mere passive bystanders, but to reach out with others to stop the bullying. In the process, they just might become somebodys hero.

Becoming Someone's Hero

Building relationships is more than playing together or helping someone in need. Encouraging our children to develop empathy towards others is a foundation of a healthy relationship. This book offers children an imaginative story when Bella takes a journey to learn what empathy is and what to say and do to show empathy. Bella meets some forest animals who teach her the three important parts of empathy and she keeps these written on a star. She applies these to her relationships at school and learns they can be used in her everyday life. Discussion questions and activity pages are included to help children expand their understanding of empathy. Bella's adventure helps children build the social emotion that connects all of us.

Bella and the Empathy Adventure

Youthlight

Eliminating Bullying offers ten guided lesson plans that will help you encourage victims to stand up for themselves, bystanders get involved, and bullies to STOP. These lessons contain inspiring animal stories, motivational activities, reproducible worksheets and letters for parents. This book is all you need to watch dynamic changes take place in the whole community. 
Topics Include: 
A Snail, Snake, and Self (passive, aggressive, and assertive behaviors) 
Stop – Think – Go (three steps to thinking before acting) 
The Teasing Game (four steps to handle teasing) 
Hands On – Hands Off (self control of hands) 
Giver/Taker (Sharing verses greed) 
Compassion (ways to care for others) 
You Think It’s Funny (joking vs. bullying) 
No More Watching (three options to stop bullying) 
Victims No More (ways to stick up for yourself) 
Don’t’ Ignore It, Report It. (ways to stick up for others)

Eliminating Bullying in Grades PK-3

Kerri Pantel