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Content Topic and Character Development Summary

Playbooks® cover teaching topics and themes from Health/Nutrition to Social Studies. The list below helps teachers plan Playbooks® into their class curriculum.

All Playbook® stories are written in a manner that supports human qualities of redeeming value which in turn help students build character. The following provides a summary of the character development qualities specifically addressed in our stories. This information is helpful to teachers in selecting stories supporting a Character Education theme.
Playbook® Title

Content Level

Content Topic/Theme

Character Traits

 
Babbles Bizarre

 

 Grades K-1

Rhyme/ Poetry

Friendship

  Being Unique

 

Sam’s Secret

 Grades K-1

Friendship

Cooperation,
Working Together

Friendship

  Loyalty
Bug Off!

 

 Grades K-2

Science/Bugs/Rhyme

Self Control & Discipline

Listening, Understanding & Acceptance

  Compassion
Jake Can’t Fake It

 

 Grades K-2

Character Education

Responsibility

Self Control  

  Listening
Surprise! Uh-Oh! Oh, No!

 

Grades K-2

Character Education

Cooperation,
Working Together

Listening 

 

There’s No One Like You

 

Grades K-2

Character Education

Being Unique &

 Proud of Who You Are

  Understanding

 

The Three Goats Gruff
Go to the Greener Side
Grades K-2
Health/Nutrition
Classic Literature
(with a modern twist)
Courage
    
I Want My Room Back

 

 Grades K-3

Taking Care of Things

Responsibility

Self Control  

  Caring, Helpfulness

The Three Little Pigs

 

 Grades 1-2

Classic Literature

Self Control & Discipline

Using Good Judgment

 

A Squirrel in Time

 

 Grades 1-3

Community

Cooperation,
Working Together

Friendship

Listening, Understanding & Acceptance

Doing the Dino Dip

 

 Grades 1-3

Music/Practice

Cooperation,
Working Together

Listening, Understanding & Acceptance

  Self Control and Discipline

Dr. Fox & the Nosy Pig

 

 Grades 1-3

Physical Traits

Using Good Judgment

Being Unique

Listening, Understanding & Acceptance

Goldilocks & the Three Bears

 

 Grades 1-3

Classic Literature

Self Control & Discipline

Listening, Understanding & Acceptance

 

How to Catch Monsters

 

 Grades 1-3

Courage

Cooperation,
Working Together

Courage

  Listening
The Berry Pie Mystery