Mindful Kids

Primary

Mindful Kids is a three-level social and emotional learning series that caters to English Language Learners (ELL) from grades 1-3. Mindful Kids helps students learn about social and emotional skills as the series teaches mutual respect, empathy, conflict management, and cooperation.

Student’s Book:

Mindful kids equip students with tools for independent learning. These include memory skills, imagination, reasoning, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking. Students have a suitable forum for dialogue and discussion that promotes their social and emotional learning. Upon completion of a unit, students get extra conversation practice at the end of each story to further explore themes and lessons learned as well as enhance their English-speaking skills. Self-assessment sentences adhere to a specific order to help students apply the themes to their lives:
Upon completion of a unit, students get extra conversation practice at the end of each story to further explore themes and lessons learned as well as enhance their English-speaking skills.

Teacher’s Resources:

The Teacher’s Book is a helpful guide that consolidates the values, character development, and language skills covered in the Student’s Book.
The Teacher’s Book provides prereading, reading, and post-reading, activities, questions, and strategies. The Teacher’s Book is a helpful guide that consolidates the values, character development, and language skills covered in the Student’s Book.
The Teacher’s Book is also in digital form, with interactive activities and audio.
The Teacher’s Book helps teachers make the most out of the series by providing clear instructions and various opportunities for students to revise and assess what they have learned including sequencing the events of a story, summarizing the main points of a story, reflecting on the stories’ themes and morals, language exercises that promote second language acquisition, personalization exercises. The Teacher’s Book uses elicitation techniques and thought-provoking questions to help students connect the stories in their lives.