Honesty & Integrity
A curated collection of 9 books exploring honesty & integrity, each with discussion questions, activities, and printable lesson plans.
Targeted Learning Goal
Students will examine why honesty matters, how truth shapes trust, and what it means to act with integrity.
Standards Connections
- ELA: RL.K-7.3
- ELA: RL.K-7.6
- ELA: SL.K-7.1
- SEL
Books in This Unit
9 titles — each with a full lesson plan.
Truth vs. Myth
History Smashers: Earth Day and the Environment
by Kate Messner
4 learning goals · 60 minutes
Truth vs. Myth
History Smashers: The Titanic
by Kate Messner, Dylan Meconis
4 learning goals · 60 minutes
Truth vs. Myth
History Smashers: Women's Right to Vote
by Kate Messner
4 learning goals · 60 minutes
Honesty & Integrity
No Sam! and the Meow of Deception
by Drew Daywalt, pictures by Mike Lowery
3 learning goals · 45 minutes
Truth, Reputation & Stereotypes
One of Us Is Lying
by Karen M. McManus
3 learning goals · 60 minutes
Truth vs. Myth
History Smashers: Plagues and Pandemics
by Kate Messner, Dylan Meconis
4 learning goals · 60 minutes
Truth vs. Myth
History Smashers: The American Revolution
by Kate Messner, Dylan Meconis
4 learning goals · 90 minutes
Truth vs. Myth
History Smashers: The Space Race
by Kate Messner, Dylan Meconis
4 learning goals · 45 minutes
Truth & Deception
The Misfits: A Copycat Conundrum
by Lisa Yee, art by Dan Santat
4 learning goals · 60 minutes
Pacing Tools in This Unit
2 tools from the Pace-Write-Read handbook.
Point of View
Who is telling the story, who is narrating it — create options that will make a huge difference. Memorable choices have included death itself, so how do you decide? The narrator you choose quietly rewrites every scene.
Details
Serve double duty and point to what a reader must not miss and help to build out your story in extraordinary ways. One well-chosen detail does the work of a paragraph of explanation.