Finding Your Voice
Stories about creative expression, storytelling, and discovering the power of your own unique perspective.
Targeted Learning Goal
Students will explore how characters express themselves, identify their own creative strengths, and craft personal narratives.
Standards Connections
- ELA: RL.K-7.1 — Ask and answer questions about key details
- ELA: RL.K-7.3 — Describe characters and how they express themselves
- ELA: RL.K-7.6 — Acknowledge differences in characters' points of view
- ELA: W.K-7.3 — Write narratives expressing personal experiences
- ELA: SL.K-7.1 — Participate in collaborative discussions about self-expression
- SEL: Self-Awareness — Recognize personal strengths and creative voice
- Art: VA:Cr1 — Generate and conceptualize artistic ideas and work
Books in This Unit
17 titles — each with a full lesson plan.
Imagination & Creativity
All the Books
by Hayley Rocco
5 learning goals · 45 minutes
Imagination & Creativity
A Book for Everyone
by Hayley Rocco
5 learning goals · 45 minutes
Individuality & Creativity
Just Being Dalí: The Story of Artist Salvador Dalí
by Amy Guglielmo
3 learning goals · 30 minutes
Creativity & Innovation
Balloons Over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy's Parade
by Melissa Sweet
4 learning goals · 45 minutes
Art & Perseverance
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
by Jen Bryant
4 learning goals · 60 minutes
Creativity & Imagination
Bored
by Felicita Sala
4 learning goals · 45 minutes
Ocean & Imagination
Deep Blue
by Dashka Slater
2 learning goals · 40 minutes
Imagination & Self-Expression
If I Was a Horse
by Sophie Blackall
4 learning goals · 35 minutes
Bilingual Storytelling & Humor
¡Mistaco! A Tale of Tragedy y Tortillas
by Eliza Kinkz
4 learning goals · 45 minutes
Fractured Fairy Tales
Moldilocks and the Three Scares
by Lynne Marie
4 learning goals · 50–60 minutes
Self-Expression
One Small Moment: Learning to Tell Your Story
by Rebecca Donnelly and Amélie Videlo
5 learning goals · 40–45 minutes
Imagination & Dreams
Ready to Soar
by Cori Doerrfeld
4 learning goals · 30 minutes
Self-Expression
Serendipity
by Gabbie Benda
4 learning goals · 60 minutes
Creativity & Innovation
The Cartoonists Club
by Raina Telgemeier & Scott McCloud
4 learning goals · 45-60 minutes
Imagination & Memory
The Winter of the Dollhouse
by Laura Amy Schlitz
3 learning goals · 45 minutes
Self-Expression
Limelight: Curtain Up on Poetry Comics!
by Renée M. LaTulipe
4 learning goals · 60 minutes
Self-Expression
The Brainstormerz: Money Talks
by Kwame Alexander
4 learning goals · 50–60 minutes, with selected book scenes read beforehand