We're All Wonders



I fell in love with Auggie in R.J. Palacio's Wonder!  Several of my teachers plan to share the novel with their classes this year as a read aloud!  I loved the message it sends to treat everyone with kindness!

 If you have the choice to choose between being right or being kind, choose kind!

 As soon as I saw the picture book We're all Wonders, by R.J. Palacio, I knew it was one I would share with my library classes!  The message was right on point,  that each one of us has something about us that makes us special and unique, that makes us a wonder!

I used the book to talk about being ordinary, perceptions, and how we need to look at the inside of people before we jump to assumptions.

We discussed how R.J. make the character exaggerated (hyperbole-tied some figurative language in there), and how boring life would be if we were all exactly the same!

As a follow-up, I had kids think about what it was about them that make them unique.  We used Flipgrid to record our responses!

 You can view our responses here!

Resources I used in my lesson:
Official Movie Trailer #1
Today Show Interview with R.J. Palacio

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