Gladly Teaching/The Big Book About Kindness

The Big Book About Kindess

A ready-to-print Big Book that helps students speak kindly to themselvesbecause that’s where real kindness begins.

Whether you’re working on oral language, social-emotional learning, or building confident young writers, this Big Book does it all. And it’s ready to go.

✔ Just print and read.

✔ Perfect for SEL, ELLs, and writing instruction.

✔ Built with a repetitive frame students join in on.

✔ Supports talk-to-write routines with kindness at the core.

This book belongs in your classroom all year long a gentle reminder that the most powerful kindness begins within.

  • $4

The Big Book About Kindness

This beautifully illustrated, ready-to-print Big Book helps students explore what kindness really means starting with how we talk to ourselves. Built with a powerful repetitive frame, oral language routines, and writing prompts for K–5, it’s perfect for SEL, ELLs, and every reader. Just print and read then plug it into your Project GLAD Big Book routine.

What you get…

  • A fully illustrated Big Book (print-and-read format)

  • Writing prompts for K–5 (includes sketch-and-write options!)

  • Aligned learning targets for K–1, 2–3, and 4–5

  • Repetitive frame for shared reading + student participation

  • Prompts for turn-and-talk + sentence-level practice

Plug this Big Book into your Big Book Follow-Up Coaching Toolkit for:

  • 2 full weeks of oral language routines

  • Sentence stems + visuals

  • Coaching videos + templates

  • Easy-to-use writing extensions

You can also use this for…

  • Interactive read alouds

  • Morning meetings

  • SEL mini-lessons

  • Writing warm-ups

  • Small group language support

  • $4

The most important part?

Let them feel the message.

Let them practice talking to themselves with kindness just like the book tells us to.

You’re not just building readers. You’re building brave, kind humans. 💕

Peek inside! Students see themselves and hear the language of kindness in every speech bubble. Ready to print & ready to read.

Not sure what to do with a Big Book?

Grab the toolkit that gives you the support to implement this strategy with videos, lesson plans, templates to make your own, and so much more!

  • $30

Follow Up Coaching - Teacher Made Big Book - Templates, Extensions, Lesson Plans and more

Created for Project GLAD® trained teachers, this follow-up coaching guide helps you turn your curriculum and standards into intentional Big Books that build oral language, reading, and writing connections. With templates, planning support, and extension ideas, you’ll learn how to stretch one Big Book across two weeks of meaningful, language-rich instruction.