Heart of the Hero

Great Multi-Cultural Literature Units from every genre in 20 Award Winning Books!

Who are our children's heroes? Sports figures? Movie stars? Rappers? Youngsters need guidance to help them identify with REAL heroes because their heroes will become the models for their own lives.

Units in Heart of the Hero help youngsters to identify the REAL heroes, those with courage, humility, gentleness like Lou Gehrig in The Luckiest Man, Peg Kehret in Small Steps the Year I Got Polio, Ella in Ella Enchanted, and Andy Thomas in Search for Shadowman

Heart of the Hero will help your students walk in the shoes of heroes who were creative, self-disciplined, and willing to stand strong for their beliefs like, Nicholas Allen in Frindle, Judson Moon in The Kid Who Ran for President, Amelia Earhart in Sky Pioneer, Faith in Faith and the Electric Dogs.

Heart of the Hero will model the heroes who respect the importance of family and friends in units for Fanny's Dream,In My Family/En Mi Familia, Saving Sweetness, and Hey, New Kid!

Heart of the Hero will introduce your kids to Hiroki Sugihara, one hero who risked his life to save Jewish people he didn't even know during the Holocaust.

Sample Pages from Heart of the Hero

Activities include: 

• logic and crossword puzzles, 
• vocabulary study, 
• journal writing, 
• cross curriculum problem solving, 
• authentic assessments, 
• research projects, 
• writing prompts,
• cooperative learning, 
• excellent literary circle guide,
• standardized test practice,

and much more!

195 pages of activities based on the 1998-1999 Texas Bluebonnet Award Books^SM

Grades 3-7 

  Kids' Wings has created outstanding activities for each novel, units which provide the latest in integrated curriculum.