Find a book that you think is great for helping young children. State what situation/issue the book addresses and summarize how this book can help children.
Sunday, August 23, 2015
Bibliotherapy Books for Children
Bibliotherapy for young children is when an adult reads a specific book to a child who is dealing with a specific issue or sensitive subject. It can be the loss of a loved one, an illness, divorce, moving to a new location, a new baby, issues with anger, etc.
Find a book that you think is great for helping young children. State what situation/issue the book addresses and summarize how this book can help children.
Find a book that you think is great for helping young children. State what situation/issue the book addresses and summarize how this book can help children.
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ReplyDeleteA Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M. Holmes
ReplyDeleteA terrible thing happened narrates a story of a raccoon that experienced a traumatic event in his life. Sherman (Raccoon) tries to forget the terrible thing that happened to him and he was confuse, angry, scared, and nervous because he did not know how to deal with the disturbing memories. He decided to talk to Ms. Maple who helped him deal with his emotions. I really like this book and I think this is a good story to read to children who had experience or witness any kind of disturbing events such as physical abuse, death or a natural disaster. This book might help children cope with their feelings and emotions and it will reassure them that it is okay to have negative feelings. The book might also encourage children to open up and talk to adults about what happens to them without being judge.
ReplyDeleteI have often used the children’s book Hands are not for hitting as a great tool with my students and their parents. This book has helped me with expressing wanted behaviors and gasping the child’s interest will teaching. This book has also helped my student’s parents look at their child’s behavior with more understanding and tactic on how to address the unwanted behavior and developmentally express appropriate behavior.
Book :Hands Are Not for Hitting
By: Martine Agassi Ph.D.
I read a book called "I feel scare" because some new students were crying and missing mom. I explain how is ok to feel scare in a new environment. They all seem to really enjoy the book that they kept asking for me to read it.
ReplyDeleteIn a case of pregnancy to children it is very hard to understand, more when they are only children. All this change can be hard for older siblings to handle. It's common for them to feel jealousy toward the newborn and to react to the upheaval by acting out. But parents can prepare kids for an addition to the family. Discussing the pregnancy in terms that make sense to kids, making some arrangements, and including kids in the care of the newborn can make things easier for everyone. A book that I found very interesting about it is called “My Mom's having a Baby” offers accurate information to children about conception, pregnancy and childbirth. Those way children come visualize and understand what is happening around them and as time passes children come to accept that will come soon another family member. I think reading books to children helps them too to put all their fears in a positive mood, books are great and really helpful in which everyone benefits equally and children really enjoy it!!!
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At the begining of the year some of the children experience separetion anxiety and a book that I like to read the first day of school is 'The Kissing Hand". and I do and activity with the Kissing hand poem and they get to take it home.
ReplyDeleteOne of my co-worker introduced this book to me; A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams. It talks about how this little girl and her mother were raising money to buy a chair because they had previously lost everything in a fire. The mother goes to work day after day as a waitress and all her tips go into a glass jar. Sometimes she gets home and is so tired the little girl doesn't get to spend so much time with her. At the end they raise enough money to buy the chair.
ReplyDeleteThis book helps children that have gone through a ruff situation in their life such as a fire or perhaps even being homelessness or living in a shelter as some of our children do. They see how the community jumps in to help this family and the children from your classroom can plan to help if a real situation occurs.
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In my toddler classroom there is a cute litle girl who likes to eat non-food items such: chalk, crayons, sand, or play-dough. I am thinking of her to buy the book "Yummy Yucky" by: Leslie Patricelli. I think this book will be very helpful showing this girl what things are yummy and yucky. The book is very simple and have bright pictures to easy focusing. I love it.
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At the beginning of the school year I like to read a book called: What makes me Happy? By Catherine and Laurence Anholt. With this book youngster will relate to the variety of experiences and emotions. After reading this book I encourage children to communicate what makes them feel happy. Children and teachers work cooperatively to draw in a big piece of paper what make us happy at school. Children enjoy doing this activity and sharing with their families.
ReplyDeleteReading books to children is very important because it helps them gain new vocabulary and it even helps them understand certain situations like a divorce, illness, a loss, or even pregnancy. Through books their knowledge expand therefore, a book I thought will be great for children is named “It’s Okay to Make Mistakes” by Todd Parr. This book was first introduced to me in this class by our instructor and I loved it so much that I already purchased it. The purpose of this book is to help children remind to embrace differences, to be grateful, to love one another, and to be themselves. As a matter of fact, the book supports life's happy accidents, the mistakes and confusions that can lead to self-discovery. This book encourages children and motivates them every time they do something incorrect. They remember about what the book stated and continue moving in the successful way.
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Author: Todd Parr
I was going through a pile of my moms books she had in a box and came across "Mom and dad break up" by Joan Singleton Prestine from the series KIDS HAVE FEELINGS TOO. It was written from the kids perspective, it shares his life and feelings before the divorce, during the divorce, and after the divorce. He goes from happy, to sad and angry, to understanding that "sometimes things that belong together, like mom and dad break up" at the end of the book he looks happier and knows that mom will always be mom and dad will always be dad.
ReplyDeleteThe rate of divorce in the Unites states is about 40% if not higher. There's a big chance that you will find some of your students going through this same situation. I really liked how this book was from the child's perspective and described feelings that many other children can relate to. The book doesn't end with the parents getting back together like the boy from the book wanted them to but it ends with the boy being happy and understanding that he will always have his mom and he will always have his dad even though they might not all live together anymore.
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A few years ago I was working with two year olds an di had a boy in my class that would bite a lot, I decided to find books to read about biting I came across the book "Teeth are not for biting" By: Elizabeth Verdick the children enjoyed the book and the boy's biting reduced a lot his mother bought the book for him to have at home as well.
ReplyDeleteI think books are a great source of therapy to address an specific theme. From feeling to divorce a new marriage. Which is one book that I remembered sharing one time with a daddy that didn't knew how to talk about this with his daughter. "Mi papa se casa" by Jennifer Moore- Mallinos. And I could name a big list of titles like "The kissing hand" which is a must read at the beginning of the school year.
ReplyDeleteThe book that I had to read one time in a class was “Teeth are not for biting” the reason was because this little boy was always biting other friends and one time he left marks on one little girl. So I got this book and I read this book to the little boy first. I sat in the library area and told him to join me. I read the story and he was very interested in the book. The next day I read the book for circle time. The little girl that got bitten was pointing at the little boy and telling yes we don’t bit it hurts. After that the little boy while I was subbing he did not bit he try but I think he remember because he hold back. I think it’s good to have resources where the children could see what happens and why we cannot bite, hit or other things. They need that visual to fully understand the reasons why we should not or why things happened.
ReplyDeleteA book that I really like its called, " NO David!" by David Shannon, this book is really good because it help you when you are teaching the children the rules of the classroom. It gives example of what a child should not be doing . For example, it has page that teaches about no hitting and it says, " david, keep your hands to your self." I showed my class in a real life what keeping your hands and vs what is not keeping your hands to your self. Later on, I remember I saw two students fighting and i said keep your hands to your self and they both put their hands down.
ReplyDeleteThe book "My New Baby" by Rachel Fuller is a very nice board book with short sentences and bright pictures that teaches children about welcoming their new sibling.
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One of my favorite book is “Hands are not for Hitting.” Every child passes through the stage of hit other children. This book is very appropriate because it explains briefly that hands are not for hitting. So, inviting children to follow the rules and be kind to others. In like manner, helps to support children to behave and prompt their appropriate behaviors.
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By: Martine Agassi Ph.D.
Biting is a typical behavior that the children use when they want something and the other child doesn’t wasn’t to give it to them, they use biting as a way of expression, sometimes they don’t talk yet and that is their way of communicating, to address this issue I like the book No Biting by Karen Katz, in which the story tells appropriate ways to communicate those bad behaviors that a child can have, and that biting is not o.k . it’s ok to bite food but not our friends
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A book I encourage teachers to read with children is " My Many Colored Days" by Dr..Seuss. It is simple to read, with warm yet colorful illustrations. It discusses emotions and how it's natural to feel sad, happy, proud, etc. and it connects a color to each attribute. I think it provides a great opportunity to discuss these feelings and ways to manage them plus it helps to give children language/vocabulary to attach to their emotions. It is a rich way to ask open-ended and thought provoking questions of children and offers them an opportunity to think of solutions.
ReplyDeleteA book I love to read with children is Book :Hands Are Not for Hitting
ReplyDeleteBy: Martine Agassi Ph.D., because hitting happens a lot especially with young children. this book addresses how to use hands properly, what are hands for and help children to understand why hitting is not acceptable. Then, as educators we can refer to this book when hitting is happening in the classroom and do a small group and have children to tell you what are hands for.
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A great book to read to students is HANDS OR NOT FOR HITTING by: Martin
ReplyDeletethis book is a book that I often pull out the third or fourth week of school, it help promote healthy relationship with peers and talks about emotions and is very simple and fun to read. Hands are not for hitting has help my students grasp the concept of what we can use are hand for and it has helped my students parent re look and understand their children development and how things need to be simple for their child to understand at this age. This book is a personal favorite for my family as well, My son suffered from speech and language delay. He often was sent home with a bad note or had a indecent at school this book has help with redirecting my sons behavior and has helped his dad understand more about his development.
A great book to read to students is HANDS OR NOT FOR HITTING by: Martin
ReplyDeletethis book is a book that I often pull out the third or fourth week of school, it help promote healthy relationship with peers and talks about emotions and is very simple and fun to read. Hands are not for hitting has help my students grasp the concept of what we can use are hand for and it has helped my students parent re look and understand their children development and how things need to be simple for their child to understand at this age. This book is a personal favorite for my family as well, My son suffered from speech and language delay. He often was sent home with a bad note or had a indecent at school this book has help with redirecting my sons behavior and has helped his dad understand more about his development.
I love reading books to children. It's fun and entertaining. One of my favorite book is "If you give a mouse a cookie" by Laura Numeroff. This book helps children understand what's going to happened next, it helps with problem solving, thinking skills and much more that teacher can help children with the development of Language/Literacy.
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ReplyDeleteI like to read the "No David" book series the children enjoy helping David problem solve and how he should wait in line and paint on paper. The book that I also enjoy reading is "Sophie get Really Really Angry," the visuals are great it shows the color red for anger and blue for happy and how Sophie copes and calms down and eventually problem solves.
I like the book "When Sophie Gets Angry-Really, Really Angry." This book is about a little girl, Sophie, who gets angry when she has to share her toys. Sophie does not know how to handle her anger, and she needs to take time to cool off. Every child goes through times of anger, and sometimes they do not know how to handle their emotions. I like to read this book to children to teach them that sometimes we get angry, and it is okay to find a quiet place and take some time to calm down.
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ReplyDeleteI really like the book “Hands are not for Hitting” by Martine Agassi and Marieka Heinlen. We use this book in our classroom to show the children that they can utilize their hands in positive ways instead of using them for hitting. Some of the kids already memorized the book. When I say, “Hands are not for ...” they answer, “hands are not for hitting.” Another book that we use is “David Goes to School” by David Shannon. This book is great to reinforce the rules in the classroom. The children love when we read the book, they ask us to use their names instead of David. At the end of the story every child reaches up high and grabs a star, then they pretend to put it inside their packet.
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ReplyDeleteI own and operate a family childcare so potty training is encouraged so the children can be more independent. In the past I have had children who react to normal bodily functions like farting or pooping. They would say "EW!" and make the other children feel embarrassed and ashamed from doing what is natural, so in order to make it aware of what we do, we read "Everybody Poops" by Taro Gomi and "The Gas We Pass" By Shinta Cho. The children laugh as we read through it but we learn about what is natural to our bodies and make it so it is okay to fart and poop without having to feel embarrassed or ashamed.
ReplyDeletewe have some books that help me talk about feelings or certain circumstances.
ReplyDeletewhen kids are fighting a lot we read about sharing, being nice to other kids, I often read " If you angry and you know it" by cecily kaiser.
we also ready a book about a kid that moved to another town because he have to went to another school and the feelings about losing a friend
The book I chose to share is titled Mommy, momma and me, written by Leslea Newman and Carol Thompson. The book is about This book can be used to illustrate the loving bond between same-sex parents and their children.I love that the story centers around the ordinary events that make up a baby or toddler's life, like eating, napping, bathing, and going to the park, only the child in the story just happens to have two moms... like many children do. I Also like how the child in the story is not identified as male or female, so boys and girls alike can relate to the story. This is a sweet book for families that have two mommies, as well as for families who want their children to learn that Family comes in many beautiful variations!
ReplyDeleteI have work with preschool children, I like to read to the children the book call " Hand are not for hitting" by Martine Agassi. When we have child who's aggressive, we talk about our feeling and gently touch. Another book I like to read is "The owl Babies" this book help the children understand that their mommy or daddy leave but always came back for them.
ReplyDeleteI think a book that will help children in many situations is a book called Horrible Bear written by Ame Dyckman. This book is about a bear who mistakingly broke a little girls kite and she grew very upset by it. She called the bear a horrible bear and gave him many angry outburst. Soon the bear grew angry himself and got to the point where he was about to be the true bear that nature treats him as, and get out of hand. Before he could do that the little girl then calmed down and apologized for her actions and treated the bear with respect like she should. I think this book suits well with children because they do very much of the same thing. It can help show how to deal with anger, outburst, and manners properly.
ReplyDeleteThere are a variety of books available that are very helpful to educators to demonstrate a point across without being too forward towards the children. Personally, his kind of resource has been very helpful to me. i have used plenty but a most recent one i enjoyed was called "The very grumpy day". This book was based on a small bear who was not having a good day, he was walking around the forest very grumpy causing all his animal friend to have a bad day, soon enough everybody became very upset and grumpy. Bear had a mouse friend who was very happy and made him a sweet treat, when bear arrived home from his grumpy day he found his treat and it made him very happy, he thought about all the trouble he caused his friends in the forest and he became inspired by what mouse did that he began making gifts for everyone. This book taught me personally of how our energy can be passed along to our peers and how in some ways can ruin the day for others. I hope this book helps many educators and students.
ReplyDeleteThe Mine-O-Saur, is on of my favorite books to read with children, when there are children in the classroom that don't like to share. The story talks about a dinosaur that always wants to have all the toys and all the snacks for himself. His actions makes the other dinosaurs to be afraid and don't want to play with him. He feels alone and realizes that what he really wanted was to have friends to play. the story helps children to understand the importance of sharing, dinosaurs all always popular and very attractive to children specially boys.
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ReplyDelete"The Mine-O-Saur"
by Sudipta Bardhan- Quallen
There are a variety of books that teachers can use to help children understand a situation they might be going through like, toilet training or getting ready for a new baby. Using this kind of resource has been very helpful to me recently because my son is transitioning from Infant/ Toddler program to Preschool in September, so I am currently talking to him about the transitioning process, since he has a very hard time transitioning to different activities throughout the day. A book that I read to him currently is called, “My Preschool” by Anne Rockwell. This book helps children transition into Preschool, it doesn’t make everything perfect, but it helps children understand the process of starting Preschool and what to expect. It prepares them for Preschool. This book is great because the feelings of anxiety, loss of control, change and fear can be overwhelming even for adults, so I can only imagine how the young children feel, it must be intensified because they don’t understand.
ReplyDeleteMy son has such a hard time even going back to school on a Monday. He is always glued to my leg but recently he has a shorter time adjusting unlike before where it would take him hours to get adjusted; now it takes him a few minutes. I like this book because it covers more realistic moments that children go through, such as children crying for their parents and arguing over toys. The book also talks about the happier moments as well, such as share days, playing at the sand table, visiting the music teacher and snack time. I also recommend the book, “The Kissing Hand” by Audrey Penn.
Book name: My Preschool
Author: Anne Rockwell
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ReplyDeleteA book I love to read to my older children is " Love you forever" this book will help children understand their mom will always love them. It talk about how the baby was growing up and what he went threw going up. My gets older and passes away. I feel this will help children understand the life cycle and no one lives for ever. If a child lose a parent it will help them with comfort. The book explains that you mom will always love you forever. " ill love you forever my baby you'll always be" My mom reads this book to me every year on my birthday!
One of the roles of a Home Visitor is to support the whole family in every event that can cause anxiety, depression, or cranky specially the toddler when the mother is pregnant. Bringing a new baby home is a life changing event and the parent need to prepare the children. The best way to prepare the children is talking about the new baby and the changes that may occur in the home.
ReplyDeleteI use to bring books about this subject (a new baby) to read and share with the child to support the parent and help the child to release their emotions.
There are many books that we canh read."The New Baby", by Fred Rogers. Is one of my favors books.
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