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Books About Kindness That Should Be in Every Classroom

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This is a great list of kindness books you can use in your classroom (even an upper elementary classroom) all year round. Use them for Pink Shirt Day, World Kindness Day or to foster a kind environment for all your students.

We love picture books and use them all the time in our classroom as mentor texts or to illustrate a writer’s craft. We love books that highlight kindness and use them all year with our students. We’re always on the search for new books, but here are some of the best kindness books we’ve found and use all year.

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How to Stretch Your Classroom Library

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Use these tips to expand the number of books in your classroom. Reach those reluctant readers and don't waste your money! We've collected all the different ways we could think of to get free or discounted books for your classroom library.

You are a great teacher, but don’t have a classroom library? Of course, you want your students to have a great selection of books for reading throughout the year, but most schools do not pay for classroom libraries. How on Earth are new teachers (and even the more experienced ones) expected to have a quality selection of classroom library books?

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