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Projects - Literature for Life: Teaching about Loss, Change and Grief Though the English Curriculum

Source: GoodGrief

Literature for Life is a middle years English curriculum resource commissioned by GoodGrief to complement the Seasons For Growth program provided to support students dealing with grief. The resources provide background information, support material and a detailed curriculum for middle school English classes. The materials are designed to enhance the student's emotional, social and verbal literacy whilst developing an understanding of strategies that can be used to cope with change, stress and grief.

Two teacher manuals are provided, one for upper primary and one for lower secondary students. The learning activities, employing the multiple intelligences, challenge students to engage with a range of deep thinking tasks in both cognitive and affective domains. The interactive classroom program assists students to develop shared concepts and language for discussing emotional or behavioural reactions to grief, loss, and change. Learning through fiction offers both a protective frame and a means by which to learn more about one's self and one's world through imagined and empathetic connection with others.

The resource was developed by Helen Cahill, Glen Pearsall and Carol Guthrie.

Contact: Helen Cahill