Character Education Books

100 Ways to Enhance Values and Morality in Schools and Youth Settings
by Howard Kirschenbaum

Appropriate for use at all levels from elementary school through college, this unique guide is packed with 100 specific strategies, hundreds of practical ideas, dozens of thought-provoking cartoons and quotes, and numerous examples from real elementary and secondary schools. The activities are effective, motivating, and interesting for students and teachers.

Being Your Best: Character Building for Kids 7-10
by Barbara A. Lewis

Even elementary school children can learn about and build important character traits like caring, citizenship, cooperation, courage, fairness, honesty, respect, and responsibility - traits that will help them grow into capable, moral teens and adults.

Building Character Schoolwide - Creating a Caring Community in Your School
by Rudy Bernardo, Linda Frye and others

This teacher friendly book contains 38 weeks of core character traits, such as Honesty, Respect, Responsibility, Perseverance. Each positive trait is defined and includes daily activities, a selection of appropriate quotes and an annotated reading list.

Butt Prints in the Sand . . . No More!
by Sam Glenn

Life is too short to sit around! One day, we will look back on life and see either butt prints in the sand or footprints in the sand. If we see butt prints, it means we sat life out, we gave up and stopped trying. If we see footprints in the sand, it means we gave life our best and got the best.

Character Building Activities for Kids
by Darlene Mannix

Hundreds of ready-to-use lessons and illustrated activity sheets to teach elementary-grade children to define, recognize, and put into action 18 specific traits of good character. Traits include honesty, humility, responsibility, generosity, loyalty, open-mindedness, and optimism. Grade level: K-6

Character Education Activities for K-6 Classrooms
by Sandra Peyser and Miriam McLaughlin

These timesaving and effective activities can be integrated into the school day. Social Studies, Health, and Language Arts are three curriculum areas that can readily include character education. This book is a new and exciting approach to character education.

Character Education Through Story
by Patty Smith

This wonderful new resource promises to warm children's hearts as well as enlighten their minds to the struggles and achievements of others. Students are encouraged to explore the world around them and how it relates to creating not only their own good character, but also a global climate of character. Grade level: K-6

Developing A Character Education Program
by Henry Huffman

Huffman offers a comprehensive concept of character what he calls "a morality of the head, the heart, and the hand." The distinctive value of this book is that it addresses the nuts-and-bolts questions most on the minds of school practitioners: How to get character education started?

Developing Character When It Counts (Grades 2-3)
by Barbara Allman (Gr 2-3)

Fun activity ideas to help reinforce character education and build self-confidence... This "Developing Character When It Counts" booklet includes reproducible student activity pages, school-to-home assignments, role-playing ideas, cooperative group activities, craft projects — and more.

Developing Character When It Counts (Grades K-1)
by Barbara Allman (Gr K-1)

Educating the Heart: Lessons to Build Respect and Responsibility
by Frank Siccone

Educating the Heart is a resource specifically designed to help teachers meet two of the most demanding challenges they face - building student’s respect for themselves and others, and promoting both personal and social responsibility. It provides the tools teachers need to turn their classroom into a safe and productive learning environment where students are empowered to make a difference in their own lives as well as the lives of others. Grade level: 2-6

Growing Good Kids
by Deb Delisle and Jim Delisle

Lively, diverse, enriching, and fun, these activities invite children to create books, write stories, help others, consider the traits of successful leaders, explore their own values, stretch their imaginations, discover why "misteaks are grate," and more. Kids practice problem solving, decision making, goal setting, divergent thinking, tolerance, patience, compassion, and communication. They learn to appreciate themselves, care about others, and act on their caring in concrete and meaningful ways. Grade level: 3-8

How I Learned to be Considerate of Others
by Lawrence E. Shapiro

Tells the story of Janet, a selfish little girl, who found out that always thinking about yourself can be a very lonely way to live.(ages 5-8)

Kids with Character
by Maureen Duran

This book promotes standards of moral obligation which help young people determine the difference between right and wrong. As educators, we need to help children not only understand the meaning of character traits, but help them commit to and act upon these essential virtues. Grade level: 1-5

Kids with Character II
by Maureen Duran

This book provides additional lessons for the elementary school that reflect on the ten character traits. Its purpose is to supplement existing reading and language arts programs. Grade level: 1-5

Parents, Kids & Character
by Dr. Helen R. LeGette

This book is a must for parents and teachers. Concepts presented are good for all grade levels. Your family and/or classroom will be strengthened by the ideas presented in this book.

Playwise
by Denise Chapman Weston and Mark S. Weston

Playwise offers you a wealth of creative and entertaining activities to help instill basic virtues and emotional intelligence in children. Whether you're a parent, teacher, caregiver - or all three - this book has hundreds of games and projects you can do with children to lay the foundation of self-worth upon which character and integrity are built.

Positive Coaching Building Character and Self-Esteem Through Sports
by Jim Thompson

This practical book is jam-packed with specific strategies to address the psychological health of athletes, especially young athletes, in any sport.

Rachel's Challenge: Character In Motion! - Year 1
by Jeffrey F. Keuss and Lisa Sloth (6-12)

This workbook was designed with five major focuses to help you integrate Rachel's Challenge, assembly program and character education into your daily program while meeting curriculum standards. The program will help devolop critical-thinking skills in students and promote various academic skills. It was created as a whole program but can be easily used in parts.

Share and Take Turns
by Cheri J. Meiners, M.Ed

This book is an ideal introduction to sharing. In simple words and engaging illustrations, it presents sharing as a positive choice, then describes four ways to share. What if they don't want to share? Or if someone won't share with them? These topics are covered, too. Ages: 4-8 Children's library

Spotlight on Character: Plays That Show CHARACTER COUNTS!
by Sara Freeman (Gr K-1)

Here's an entertaining way to emphasize character education, build self-confidence and prepare students to make choices they can be proud of. This booklet is based on the Six Pillars of Character and includes seven reproducible scripts, activities to promote character development, tips for presenting a class play, a letter to parents and more. K-1

Starting Small - Teaching Tolerance in Preschool and the Early Grades
by Vivian Gussin Paley

The vision of community that the early childhood classroom provides can color children's ideas and expectations about equity, cooperation and citizenship for a lifetime.

They Called Him "Four Eyes"
by Marilyn Stoll

This booklet provides children with an easy-to-understand life situation and gives clear guidelines for valuing classmates who are different. Grade level: K-3

What Do You Stand For? A Kid's Guide to Building Character
by Barbara A. Lewis

Many states are making character education part of their school curriculum. This book invites children and teens to explore and practice honesty, kindness, empathy, integrity, tolerance, patience, respect, and more. Dilemmas challenge readers to think about, discuss and debate positive traits; activities inspire them to explore what they stand for at school, at home and in their communities.

What's Right? What's Wrong?
by Jeffrey A. Marx and Risa Munitz Gruberger

You want your children to tell the truth, treat others with respect, and stand up for what's right, but it's tough to talk about values in ways that keep kids interested. This book makes it easy and fun.

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