Time to Get Started!

Book excerpt: Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) includes major life skills that all students need to get along with others and live happy, healthy lives. This book delves into the essential SEL skill of self-motivation, an integral component of the SEL core concept of self-management. Readers follow a girl as she gets started learning how to tie her shoes. Accessible text paired with vibrant full-color photographs will allow readers to connect with the concept, and gain a deep understanding of how to apply this skill in daily life. For a comprehensive learning experience, this nonfiction title can be paired with the fiction title Gia the Giraffe Gets Started! (ISBN: 9781725353275). The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides vocabulary, reflections, background knowledge, text-dependent questions, whole class activities, and independent activities.