Teachers, Grades 2–5
What books support social-emotional learning and diversify your classroom library? Carol Jago, former President of NCTE, shares her top social and emotional-focused picks that situate your students within real-world settings, both past and present. Learn strategies that invite classroom discussion that allow children to ask themselves, “I wonder what I would have done?”.
Read more on the blog, Helping Children Read the World: Stories From History for more from Carol Jago.
Meet Our Speaker
An author on HMH's Into Reading® and Into Literature® programs, Carol Jago has been a teacher for 32 years. She is associate director of the California Reading and Literature Project at UCLA and is past president of the National Council of Teachers of English.
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Presentation slides from Carol Jago’s When Children Read the World: Books That Lead the Way.
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Get tips from Carol Jago and more, on how to provide students with the skills to be active learners in the internet era.