![]() ![]() The question she answers with this story is one that can haunt at any age: what if you’re cruel to someone and never get the chance to make it right? Ages 5–8. Woodson, who collaborated with Lewis on The Other Side and Coming On Home Soon, again brings an unsparing lyricism to a difficult topic. Then one day, Maya is gone, and Chloe realizes that her “chance of a kindness” is “more and more forever gone.” Combining realism with shimmering impressionistic washes of color, Lewis turns readers into witnesses as kindness hangs in the balance in theĬafeteria, the classroom, and on the sun-bleached playground asphalt readers see how the most mundane settings can become tense testing grounds for character. ![]() Even when Maya valiantly-and heartbreakingly-tries to fit in and entice the girls to play with her, she is rejected. This Critical Thinking Interactive Read Aloud using Each Kindness is also a great book to use with SEL (Social Emotional Learning). The message in this book is loud and clear our actions can directly impact those around us. When a new and clearly impoverished girl named Maya shows up at school (“Her coat was open and the clothes beneath it looked old and ragged”), Chloe and her friends brush off any attempt to befriend her. Each Kindness teaches students that just one small act of kindness can have a big effect on someone. ![]()
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