Word of the Week: 36 Weeks of Focused Character Building

(Grades 3-12) Word of the Week: 36 Weeks of Focused Character Building provides school counselors and educators with an easy way to integrate character building into your weekly lesson planning. It features thirty-six different character traits and behaviors addressing the Common Core standards in English/Language Arts through daily writing prompts. Word of the Week is a creatively designed resource book that puts a year of character building at your fingertips.

Each week’s character word includes:
- a focus word and its definition
- an inspiring thought for the week
- an engaging class activity
- stimulating daily writing prompts

This book is an invaluable resource that provides thought-provoking activities to engage students’ creativity and foster reflection, compassion, and integrity. Busy school counselors and teachers will appreciate its straightforward approach to character building. The activities are flexible enough for school-wide implementation or individual classroom application.

Erainna was born and raised in central Louisiana. The oldest of five children she always yearned to be a teacher and forced her siblings to play school year round. Naturally, she graduated with a teaching degree in 1995 and earned her Master’s degree in 2000. Five years later she earned her Education Specialist degree in early childhood education. After fifteen years in the classroom, she moved to the role of school counselor and has never been happier. While serving as school counselor at an elementary school in northeast Texas, she frequently uses children’s books as therapy to help her students heal, learn and grow. Ideas for her books come from the students she works with on a daily basis. Her goal, as an author, is to touch the hearts of children, one story at a time. Erainna has written over thirty books designed to guide parents, teachers, and counselors as they help children to become their best self. Erainna lives on a 300 acre cattle ranch near the Red River with her husband, two daughters, three dogs, two horses, and one ill-tempered cat.