Peaceable Stories
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What is Peaceable Stories?
Peaceable Stories is a statewide, six-hour training
program that offers high-quality children’s books, accompanied
by an Activity & Resource Guide, designed to stimulate meaningful conversations about conflict and peace. Participants read and discuss the books, and take part in related exercises and activities, in preparation for using the materials with young children.
What is the goal of this project?
By guiding early childhood educators in selecting literature with themes of peace and conflict and developing book-sharing practices around those themes, Peaceable Stories will help them:
- share quality books and thoughtful conversation with children, encouraging them to look inward and presenting them with choices for resolving conflicts;
- better understand the benefits of reading aloud to promote not only academic achievement, but also social and emotional literacy—the ability to express thoughts, feelings, and opinions about identity and conflict—in Maine’s youngest children; and
- embrace the power of stories to promote empathy, compassion, and problem-solving language and skills.
Who is the training for?
Peaceable Stories was designed for early childhood educators, including preschool teachers, home-based providers, literacy specialists, and center directors. It is also appropriate for parents, volunteers, home visitors, and others who have frequent contact with young children aged five and under.
Who developed Peaceable Stories?
Maine Humanities Council staff and consultants selected the books
and wrote the Activity & Resource Guide. The books and activities were reviewed
by an advisory committee of respected educators, child care providers,
children's writers, booksellers and librarians.
Article about Peaceable Stories from the Council's Winter 2007 newsletter
Peaceable Stories Core Books
Born to Read
Maine Humanities Council
674 Brighton Avenue, Portland, ME 04102
Phone: (207) 773-5051
Fax: (207) 773-2416
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