Student Well-being 

Year Prep Community

Using Picture Books in Wellbeing

Picture books often help children by providing comfort and support for those who are experiencing difficult issues. Picture books show children how they are not the only ones going through a certain situation.  When children find a book that features a character whose situation they identify with, there is a realisation which enables them to take control and find a solution to their own problem.

Books about sensitive issues are used in the classroom to promote discussion and complex thinking among children as they examine problems and explore possible situations.

In Year Prep, we used the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst to spark classroom discussion. It was wonderful for the children to make connections with the book and discuss times when they have experienced similar days to the character Alexander in the story.

We discussed a range of strategies that they could use when they are feeling as terrible as Alexander was!

Lauren Borg

Student Well-being Leader