We also discussed how Chloe could have changed things. The insight that my students had were very deep and I believe it made them look at some of the choices they make in their daily lives. This conversation moved to how Chloe’s actions affected Maya including inferences of Maya’s feelings that were not shared in the book. After reading, we had a great conversation about how the book connected to their lives and what it meant to them. First, I will say that it affected them as much as it affected me.
Teacher’s Tool For Navigation: Today, I wanted to share with you what I did with my classes when it came to sharing Each Kindness with them. What I really love about this book is how it can be used in the classroom. This pushed me to think more carefully about how everything affects those around me. Review: When I read Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson for the first time, it made me not only want to share it with everyone I knew, but also make me want to do something nice for others. With its powerful message and striking art, it will resonate with readers long after they’ve put it down. This unforgettable book is written and illustrated by the award-winning team that created The Other Side and the Caldecott Honor winner Coming On Home Soon. When Chloe’s teacher gives a lesson about how even small acts of kindness can change the world, Chloe is stung by the lost opportunity for friendship, and thinks about how much better it could have been if she’d shown a little kindness toward Maya. Eventually, Maya plays alone, and then stops coming to school altogether. Every time Maya tries to join Chloe and her gang, they reject her.
Maya is different–she wears hand-me-downs and plays with old-fashioned toys. Summary: Each kindness makes the world a little betterĬhloe and her friends won’t play with the new girl, Maya. (Oct.Published October 2nd, 2012 by Nancy Paulsen Books 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. 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.
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