Promoting children?s health requires attention to all areas of children?s development. As teache

Promoting children’s health requires attention to all areas of children’s development. As teachers of young children, we need to intentionally include strategies that support children’s well-being in the curriculum and be proactive in terms of supporting social and emotional competence. For this assignment you will be focusing on children’s well-being and researching a children’s library for resources to help you develop effective learning activities that promote children’s social and emotional competence.

To prepare for this application activity you will need to:

Read the following article and review the factors that should be taken into account when making book selections.

Anti-Defamation League. (2004). Assessing Children’s Literature. Available from https://www.adl.org/education/resources/tools-and-strategies/assessing-childrens-literature

Locate the children’s library at one of the larger public libraries in our community, such as County Library. (or online)

To complete this assignment successfully, you will need to:

Complete “Application Activity #3” (page 35) from the text that asks you to:

Select and read ten children’s books from the Mental Health section in Appendix D of your text that you feel also meet the criteria outlined in the article “Assessing Children’s Literature.”

Prepare a brief annotation/report for each book including:

Author

Date

Title

Illustrator

Publisher

Topic/theme

Evaluation including how it aligns with recommendations shared in the article "Assessing Children's Literature" by the Anti-Defamation League.

Choose one of the books you provided an annotation for and develop it into a lesson plan.

Use the “FTCC Lesson Plan Form” to develop an activity that promotes children’s social-emotional competence. 

Identify at least one appropriate NCFELD Domain, Goal and five Developmental Indicators that aligns with your activity. NCFELD is available from: https://ncchildcare.ncdhhs.gov/Portals/0/documents/pdf/N/NC_Foundations.pdf?ver=2017-05-16-105950-953

Submit the 10 annotations and the Lesson Plan.