For teachers and parents who teach their children, this book is a curricular guide that teaches values while instructing the pillars of language arts--reading, writing, listening and speaking. Appropriate for all ages, the picture books are quality literary pieces with rich language and important themes that reveal how to live and get along with others. The themes are clustered around seven time-honored values--love, kindness, diligence, humility, patience, self-control, and temperance. Along with lesson plans, this book includes teaching charts to display student writing samples, rubrics, interactive discussion guides, and much more. This book is based upon widely respected research and practice in teaching language arts.