  | Each kindness Author: Woodson, Jacqueline | |
| Price: $23.08 | ||
Summary:
When Ms. Albert teaches a lesson on kindness, Chloe realizes that she and her friends have been wrong in making fun of new student Maya's shabby clothes and refusing to play with her.
| Illustrator: | Lewis, Earl B. |
Download a Teacher's Guide| Accelerated Reader Information: Interest Level: LG Reading Level: 3.40 Points: .5 Quiz: 153501 | Reading Counts Information: Interest Level: K-2 Reading Level: 2.70 Points: 1.0 Quiz: 58592 | |
Awards:
Coretta Scott King Author Honor, 2013
Common Core Standards
Grade K → Reading → RL Literature → K.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade K → Reading → RL Literature → K.RL Craft & Structure
Grade K → Reading → RL Literature → K.RL Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Grade 1 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 1.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 1 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 1.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Grade 2 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 2.RL Key Ideas & Details
Grade 2 → Reading → RL Reading Literature → 2.RL Range of Reading & Level of Text Complexity
Grade 2 → Reading → CCR College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards fo
Reviews:
Kirkus Reviews (05/15/12)
School Library Journal (02/01/17)
Booklist (+) (08/01/12)
The Hornbook (00/01/13)
Full Text Reviews:
Booklist - 08/01/2012 *Starred Review* Starting with the title, this quiet, intense picture book is about the small actions that can haunt. As in collaborations such as Coming on Home Soon (2004), Woodson’s spare, eloquent free verse and Lewis’ beautiful, spacious watercolor paintings tell a story for young kids that will touch all ages. In a first-person voice, Chloe speaks about how a new girl in class, Maya, gets the empty seat next to her and tries to be friends. But Chloe and her clique will have none of the poor white kid in her old ragged clothes, and their meanness intensifies after Maya asks to play with them. Then Maya’s family moves away, and she is “forever gone,” leaving Chloe without the chance to put things right. Chloe’s teacher spells out lessons of kindness, but the story is most powerful in the scenes of malicious bullying in the multiracial classroom and in the school yard. It is rare to tell a story of cruelty from the bully’s viewpoint, and both the words and pictures powerfully evoke Chloe’s shame and sorrow over the kindness she has not shown, as she looks at the empty seat next to her in the classroom, and then, alone and troubled, throws a stone in the water and watches the ripples move out and away. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The combined talents and star power of Woodson and Lewis will undoubtably create plenty of pre-pub. buzz. - Copyright 2012 Booklist.
School Library Journal - 02/01/2017 EMPATHY; PERSPECTIVE-TAKING; RESPECT FOR OTHERS - Copyright 2017 Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and/or School Library Journal used with permission.
