Learning Skills: Responsibility

The Ontario Government has identified and targeted six key learning skills for student success. Libraries can help teachers and students to understand and develop these skills by providing picture books that model these behaviours and the issues surrounding them.

Learning Skills and Work Habits Sample Behaviours: Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, Self Regulation.

The student:
• fulfils responsibilities and commitments within the learning environment;
• completes and submits class work, homework, and assignments according to agreed-upon timelines;
• takes responsibility for and manages own behaviour.

Uses an advice-column format to define responsibility as a character value. The "letters" demonstrate how being responsible in daily situations.







This book introduces readers to the idea of "cause and effect," by asking what would happen if everybody did things like...make tracks? ...spill tacks? ...pull off a bud? ...jump in mud? ...slam the door? ...stomp and roar? The book explores personal responsibility and introduces a sense of community.

Arthur's computer disaster	Marc Brown
Arthur's in charge	Emily Dodi
Arthur's Pet Business	Marc Brown
Basketball player	roch carrier
Busy Beaver	Nicholas Oldland
Chicken Sunday	Patricia Polacco
Children make terrible pets	Peter Brown
Clean your room, Harvey Moon!	Pat Cummings
Clifford's Good Deeds	Norman Bridwell
Franklin Forgets	Sharon Jennings
Have Courage My Love	Lisa Hewitt-Savelli
I just forgot	Mercer Mayer
if everybody did	Jo Ann Stover
Ish	Peter H. Reynolds
Just Kidding	Tracy Ludwig
Little Beauty	Antony Browne
Miss Rumphius	Barbara Cooney
Noni Says No	Hether Hartt-Sussman
Officer Buckle and Gloria	Peggy Rathman
Olivia and the missing Toy	Ian Falconer
Olympig!	Victoria Jamieson
One	Kathryn Otoshi
Pigeon wants a puppy	Mo Willems
Pigsty	Marc Teague
Say Something	Peggy Moss
The Paper Boy	Dave Pilkey

Learning Skills: Self-Regulation

The Ontario Government has identified and targeted six key learning skills for student success. Libraries can help teachers and students to understand and develop these skills by providing picture books that model these behaviours and the issues surrounding them.

Learning Skills and Work Habits Sample Behaviours: Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, Self Regulation.

The student:
• sets own individual goals and monitors progress towards achieving them;
• seeks clarification or assistance when needed;
• assesses and reflects critically on own strengths, needs, and interests;
• identifies learning opportunities, choices, and strategies to meet personal needs and achieve goals;
• perseveres and makes an effort when responding to challenges.

Meet Howard B. Wigglebottom, a curious rabbit who just doesn't listen! Howard is always in trouble at school because he doesn’t listen even when told by his teacher during story time to stop bouncing around the room and sit down and be quiet. But Howard doesn’t listen. And because he doesn’t listen Howard was always in trouble. 

This book is about how a young girl gets very angry at her little sister. The author goes through her emotions as she is feeling them and describes them the way a child might feel them. Sophie who is very angry has to do special things to help her calm down like run, cry, and just be by herself. After she has done these things. She is able to calm down and go back home to her family.

Title

Author

Have You Filled a Bucket Today?	Carol McCloud
The Scared Gang	Eadaoin Bhreathnach
Words Are Not for Hurting	Elizabeth Verdick
Miss Nelson Is Missing!	Harry Allard
Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen	Howard Bikow
First Day Jitters	Julie Danneberg
Time to Say "Please"!	Mo Willems
When Sophie gets angry--really, really angry	Molly Bang
Control Theory and Systems Biology	Pablo A. Iglesias
Class Clown	Robert Munsch
Something Good	Robert Munsch
The Boy In The Drawer	Robert Munsch
My Bossy Dolly	Steve Metzger

Learning Skills: Initiative

The Ontario Government has identified and targeted six key learning skills for student success. Libraries can help teachers and students to understand and develop these skills by providing picture books that model these behaviours and the issues surrounding them.

Learning Skills and Work Habits Sample Behaviours: Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, Self Regulation.

The student:

•  looks for and acts on new ideas and opportunities for learning;
•  demonstrates the capacity for innovation and a willingness to take risks;
•  demonstrates curiosity and interest in learning;
•  approaches new tasks with a positive attitude;
•  recognizes and advocates appropriately for the rights of self and others.

The book begins with a little girl who is bored. She is so bored that she starts to talk to a potato. The potato tells her that she is in fact boring; all kids are boring. The little girl gets a wee bit offended and makes it her mission to prove to the talking spud that kids are anything but boring. She shows all the fun things that kids can do and all of the things that kids are capable of from pretending to fly to yodelling on top of the dirty clothes hamper, (it is the Swiss Alps, you see). 

As a seamstress in the Big House, Clara dreams of a reunion with her Momma, who lives on another plantation--and even of running away to freedom. Then she overhears two slaves talking about the Underground Railroad. In a flash of inspiration, Clara sees how she can use the cloth in her scrap bag to make a map of the land--a freedom quilt--that no master will ever suspect.

Title

Author

Oh, The places you'll Go	Dr. Seuss
Hans My Hedgehog: A Tale from the Brothers Grimm	Brothers Grimm
Brendan Buckley's Universe and Everything in It	Sundee T. Frazier
Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile	Bernard Waber
When Harriet Met Sojourner	Catherine Clinton
Eleanor, Ellatony, Ellencake, and Me	Cathy Rubin
Just a Dream	Chris Van Allsburg
Duck on a Bike	David Shannon
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt	Deborah Hopkinson
The Elves and the Shoemaker	Eric Suben
Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust	Eve Bunting
Sandy's Incredible Shrinking Footprint	Femida Handy
Tacky the Penguin	Helen Lester
Three Cheers for Tacky	Helen Lester
On Meadowview Street	Henry Cole
Snowflake Bentley	Jacqueline  Briggs Martin
Librarian of Basra	Jeanette Winter
Wangari's Trees of Peace: A True Story from Africa	Jeanette Winter
Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World	Jen Cullterton Johnson
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs	Jon Scieszka
Humphfrey Albert and the Flying Machine	Kathryn Lasky
The Gates of the Wind	Kathryn Lasky
One Hen - How One Small Loan Made a Big Difference	Katie Smith Milway
Willows Whispers	Lana Button
Princess and the Pizza	Mary Jane Auch
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge	Mem Fox
There's an alligator under my bed	Mercer Mayer
Little Hummingbird	Michael Nichol Yahgulanaas
Gabby and Grandma Go Green	Monica Wellington
Coretta Scott	Ntozake Shange
Bored - Nothing To Do	Peter Spier
Zoom	Robert Munsch
Something Beautiful	Sharon Dennis Wyeth
The Berenstain Bears don't pollute (anymore)	Stan Berenstain

Learning Skills: Organization

The Ontario Government has identified and targeted six key learning skills for student success. Libraries can help teachers and students to understand and develop these skills by providing picture books that model these behaviours and the issues surrounding them.

Learning Skills and Work Habits Sample Behaviours: Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, Self Regulation.

 The student:
• devises and follows a plan and process for completing work and tasks;
• establishes priorities and manages time to complete tasks and achieve goals;
• identifies, gathers, evaluates, and uses information, technology, and resources to complete tasks.

When Ike LaRue is "imprisoned" at the Igor Brotweiler Canine Academy, he tries everything to get sent home--weepy letters to his owner, even illness. In reality, Brotweiler is more like camp than prison, but still, Ike's not cut out for life w/o Mrs. LaRue; his creature comforts. Finally, he runs away only to find himself back in Snort City--just in time to save Mrs. LaRue's life.





Farmer Brown has a problem.

His cows like to type.
All day long he hears
Click, clack, MOO.
Click, clack, MOO.
Clickety, clack, MOO.

But Farmer Brown's problems REALLY begin when his cows start leaving him notes....

Title

Author

The mysteries of Harris Burdick	Chris Van Allsburg
The Paper Boy	Dave Pilkey
Tuesday	David Wiesner
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type	Doreen Cronin
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle
Comet's Nine Lives by Jan Brett	Jan Brett
Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day	Judith Viors
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie	Laura Numeroff
Where the Wild Things Are	Maurice Sendak
How I Became a Pirate	Melinda Long
Koala Lou	Mem Fox
The Legend of the Bluebonnet	Tomie dePaola
A Chair for My Mother	Vera B. William

Learning Skills: Collaboration

The Ontario Government has identified and targeted six key learning skills for student success. Libraries can help teachers and students to understand and develop these skills by providing picture books that model these behaviours and the issues surrounding them.

Learning Skills and Work Habits Sample Behaviours: Responsibility, Organization, Independent Work, Collaboration, Initiative, Self Regulation.

The student:
• accepts various roles and an equitable share of work in a group;
• responds positively to the ideas, opinions, values, and traditions of others;
• builds healthy peer-to-peer relationships through personal and media-assisted interactions;
• works with others to resolve conflicts and build consensus to achieve group goals;
• shares information, resources, and expertise and promotes critical thinking to solve problems and make
decisions.

The Crayon Box that Talked by Shane Derolf is about crayons that do not get along, and are purchased by a little girl who uses them to draw pictures and show how well they all work together.

Stone Soup by Jon Muth or(any version)  Three strangers, hungry and tired, pass through a war-torn village. Embittered and suspicious from the war, the people hide their food and close their windows tight. That is, until the clever strangers suggest making a soup from stones. Intrigued by the idea, everyone brings what they have until-- together, they have made a feast fit for a king! An inspiring story about the strength people possess when they work together.

Title	Author
Solomon's tree	Andrea Spalding
Little Red Hen Big Book	Byron Baerton
The Yellow Star: the legend of King Christian X of Denmark	Carmen Agra Deedy
I Can Cooperate! (The Best Me I Can Be)	David Parker
Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type	Doreen Cronin
Big Pumpkin	Erica Silverman
Kevin and His Dad	Irene Smalls
Moose's Loose Tooth	Jacqueline A Clarke
Cook-a-Doodle-Doo!	Janet Stevens
The Great Fuzz Frenzy	Janet Stevens
Zero	Kathryn Otoshi
Frederick	Leo Lionni
Swimmy	Leo Lionni
Three Hens and a Peacock	Lester L. Laminack
Stone Soup	Marcia Brown
The Seven Chinese Brothers	Margaret Mahy
Just My Friend & Me	Mecer Mayer
Shin-chi's canoe	Nicola Campbell
The Way Back Home	Oliver Jeffers
Some Friends to Feed: The Story of Stone Soup	Pete Seeger
The Little Red Hen (Makes a Pizza)	Philemon Sturges
We Share Everything	Robert Munsch
The Crayon Box that Talked	Shane Derolf
Ladybug's Birthday (SidebySide)	Steve Metzger
The Biggest Snowman Ever	Steven Kroll