"In this helpful book, you'll learn how to seamlessly infuse social and emotional learning into your middle school English language arts curriculum. With the growing emphasis on student assessment and learning outcomes, many teachers find they lack the time and the encouragement to begin implementing SEL techniques into their instruction. This book offers a solution in the form of practical lesson plans--all of which can be implemented without tedious preparation and all of which are designed to boost self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and other key SEL skills. Your students will discover how to... - Practice mindfulness and think positively. - Exert self-control and employ self-management skills, - Become independent thinkers and make sound decisions, - Be resilient and develop a growth mindset, - Improve relationship skills and avoid bullying, - Be authentic and develop leadership skills, - And much more! Each activity is ELA-focused, so students will develop social emotional learning while meeting key literacy objectives such as reading a nonfiction speech, looking closely at symbolism, analyzing Shakespearean sonnets, and more. The book also includes reproducible tools for classroom use. You can photocopy them or downloaded them as eResources from www.routledge.com/9781138345263"-- Peovided by publisher.

Why you will want to integrate SEL into your curriculum -- Be authentic -- Practice mindfulness -- Feel positive -- Control yourself -- Think independently -- Be resilient -- Cooperate and compete successfully -- Neither be a bully nor be bullied -- Develop fruitful friendships -- Demonstrate leadership -- Think creatively -- Think critically and wisely -- Help for harried teachers -- Multiple means of measuring your students' SEL -- The future of SEL.