Celebrating All Communities: Celebrating All Abilities

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TIPS FOR CAREGIVERS Social and emotional learning SEL helps children manage emotions learn how to feel empathy create and achieve goals and make good decisions Strong lessons and support in SEL will help children establish positive habits in communication cooperation and decision-making By incorporating SEL in early reading children will learn the importance of accepting and celebrating all people in their communities BEFORE READING Talk to the reader about abilities Explain that abilities have to do with someone’s capabilities Discuss that these include physical mental and social capabilities Discuss What would you say your abilities are What is something you are not able to do AFTER READING Talk to the reader about ways he or she can celebrate his or her differences with others Discuss What is one way you can accept another person’s ability or disability Why is it good for a community to be accepting of others SEL GOAL Children may have likely heard to not make fun of or exclude others for being different but they may not understand why Talk to readers about the importance of empathy in accepting and celebrating the differences of others Ask them to imagine what it feels like to be singled out for being different or made fun of for their inabilities Make a list of these different feelings Then ask readers to list the feelings they have when they are included and accepted Explain that our communities are better when everyone is accepted and included