Fiction
General Information: 
Title: The Right Touch
Author: Sandy Kleven
Publication Date:1997
Publisher: Illumination Arts
Description of book: The Right Touch is a read aloud book for parents to read to their child to prevent child sexual abuse. This is the best book for preventing child abuse because in 1999 the book won the Benjamin Franklin Parenting Award. This book can be integrated into the core curriculum, reading because this story is very sensitive to the topic. The book is comforting to read and will help students understand what body parts are okay and not okay to touch.
Excerpt From Book:
Core Integration: Reading
Non-Fiction Book
General Information:
Title: Telling Teddy
Author: J.D. Stockholm
Publication Date: August 30, 2012
Publisher: Sabre
Description of book: This book is about a 6 year old boy that is going through child abuse from his father. It is called Dear Ted, because he is telling the stories of his abuse and fears to his stuffed animal, Teddy. He does this because he feels that his dad will deny the abuse if he goes forward with it, and that Teddy can keep the abuse a secret. This book can be integrated into the core topic reading. When reading a book about sensitive subjects, you can connect to the story more than just hearing facts about child abuse.
Excerpts from the book:
“Mr. Ted doesn’t tell. He won’t say when my daddy hurts me. He keeps my secrets and my stories. I love Mr. Ted. He is the only one who loves me back.”
“I write in my journal as much as I can. I talk to Mr. Ted. He is my only friend. He understands when the bad man comes. He holds my hand when I have nightmares and my mummy doesn’t hear me cry.”
Follow up Assignment:
This book is all about who you feel safe turning to if you are being abused, and why it is helpful and not so helpful to tell an inanimate object like a teddy bear. A good follow up assignment for a first grader would be to have a legitimate discussion, where they can write down, with your help, resources that they have as young students to talk to. That being a school counselor, a parent, a sibling, or you as a teacher. You can close up their list of positive resources that they have by discussing that although a stuffed animal is a good place to turn if you are scared, it won’t actually resolve the problem at hand. And if they want the abuse to stop, then they need to know who to reach out to and when it is appropriate to do so.
Standards:
NHES: Preventing Violence
HBO: (Advocacy) Get help to prevent or stop inappropriate touching
Learning Objectives:
V8.2.1: Make requests to others to prevent violence.
V8.2.2: Demonstrate how to encourage peers to prevent violence.
NHES: Preventing Violence
HBO:Students will demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health
Learning Objectives:
V8.2.1: Make requests to others to prevent violence.
V8.2.2: Demonstrate how to encourage peers to prevent violence.
Core Integration: Reading
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.4
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.2
Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.3
Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.4
Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.4
Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.