Understand Feelings with the Real MVP Kids®
“It’s tough being a kid in today’s world. Now, there are some books to help children understand their emotions and find ways to control them.”
Reading Specialist Andrea Crawford loves Real MVP Kids® two new series! She reviewed our five recently released titles and loved how they help children through the struggles of growing up and learning to deal with emotions. Below are some of her thoughts on these hard cover books for early-elementary and elementary age kids. To read her full review on her blog, This Literacy Life, click here.
“It’s tough being a kid sometimes! Their feelings are all over the place sometimes. The Real MVP Kids have ways to help young children better understand their feelings in these new books.
“The short stories in the Help Me Become series help younger children better understand their emotions through short stories. Working with issues such as lying, disobedience, and bullies, these books give insight into children’s feelings. The short stories keep children engaged with stories of something that could actually happen to them; things that upset them and cause them to make poor choices.
“What I love most about the Help Me Become series, as a mom and reading specialist, are the questions that follow each story. One set of questions focuses on story elements, making children recall information from the story. The second set of questions asks children how the story relates to their own lives, including hows and whys. I love both sets of questions because they really make children think about and apply what they read.
“The longer stories in the Help Me Understand series help children better understand how to deal with feelings. When things don’t seem to be going the way children have planned, they don’t always show their feelings in a productive way. In the books Blake Rewires the Failure Circuit and Miriam Lassoes the Worry Whirlwind, the characters have work with adults to help them better understand how they are feeling. Through discussion and problem solving, everyone works together to work through a difficult situation. Many children have these feelings, so these books definitely hit home!
“Again, I love the Help Me Understand series for not only the content, but the questions they offer up. They help parents and children have real conversations about the feelings, as well as recall information about the books.”