GO! SEL | Social Emotional Learning

GO! SEL | Social Emotional Learning gives upper elementary and middle school students two ways to build the social and emotional skills that support academic success, a positive classroom community, and fewer behavioral issues. The GO! SEL Literacy Library pairs 12 nonfiction and 12 fiction titles across 12 key SEL topics, backed by Emotion Vocabulary Cards, Emoti-Cards®, and a full set of lesson plans, activities, role-plays, and assessments. GO! SEL Social Emotional Stories® takes a lighter-touch approach: paired 48-page fiction books built around the same self-awareness and social-awareness topics, with one story in each pair showing a student successfully applying a skill and the other showing what happens when they don't. Together, the two collections let you choose the right level of instructional support for your classroom or library.

GO! SEL Stories  

GO! SEL Social Emotional Stories®

GO! SEL Social Emotional Stories® is a set of 24 titles, one copy each, that gives tween students age-respectful fiction and puts social and emotional skills like empathy, self-regulation, and communication into relatable, everyday situations. It's a flexible, lower-cost way to bring SEL content into independent reading or classroom libraries.
GO! SEL Tween Literacy Library  

GO! SEL Tween Literacy Library

The GO! SEL Tween Literacy Library is a complete classroom set built around its own 24 titles, different books from the GO! SEL Tween Stories collection, though covering the same core social and emotional learning topics. Each topic pairs a fiction and a nonfiction title, giving students both a relatable story and real-world context for the same social and emotional skill. The library includes multiple copies of each title for whole-class use, plus an audiobook set, student activity worksheets, and emotion vocabulary cards, giving teachers everything needed to teach social and emotional skills alongside reading comprehension in a structured, whole-class format.
SEL Emoti-Cards  

Emoti-Cards®

Emoti-Cards help students learn to read emotions in others by focusing on facial expressions: each of the 60 full-color cards shows diverse faces with the key facial cues tied to a specific emotion, with the emotion word on the reverse for vocabulary practice. Used individually or with a partner, the cards build the everyday social awareness that comes from recognizing how someone feels just by looking at them.
SEL Emotion Vocabulary Cards  

Emotion Vocabulary Cards

Emotion Vocabulary Cards build the language students need to name and discuss their own and others' emotions: 60 cards cover five emotions across twelve critical SEL topics, pairing a photograph with the vocabulary word and definition on the reverse. The cards reinforce the same vocabulary used throughout the accompanying books, giving students a consistent, precise way to talk about emotional experiences.

How These SEL Resources Work Together

The GO! SEL Tween Literacy Library and Social Emotional Tween Stories give students narrative-driven SEL content to read independently or in the classroom. Emotion Vocabulary Cards and Emoti-Cards are quick, hands-on tools for naming and discussing feelings in the moment, useful in advisory periods, small groups, or as a daily check-in routine.

Choosing SEL Resources for Your Classroom

If you're building a full SEL block, the Tween Literacy Library is the most comprehensive option. If you want a lighter starting point, the Social Emotional Tween Stories bundle covers the same territory in a smaller set. Emotion Vocabulary Cards and Emoti-Cards work well as standalone tools alongside either, or on their own for teachers who just need a daily discussion prompt.