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Free Discussion Guide
Use the discussion questions and activities in
this guide to help raise awareness and understanding about people who face learning challenges. Included are activity pages, journal pages, coloring pages, and lesson plans to encourage all children to have a positive mindset about learning. Reassure every child that he or she can find the way to learn best by refusing to give up.
Free Discussion Guide
Dusty is back with a whole new set of adventures! This time, he learns the value of making mistakes and how to grow from them. Join Dusty in this free discussion guide and workbook as he discovers that mistakes are okay and they can actually help us learn and grow.
Free Dusty the Dog Craft
Here is a super fun craft and activity that will have kids howling with joy. This cute dog makes a perfect pet for your desk.
This easy to assemble craft includes color and black and white templates, instructions, and 10 growth mindset bone templates that children can use for daily encouragement and motivation.
Free Hidden Bones Games
Did you read Did You Say Pasghetti? Dusty and Danny Tackle Dyslexia? If you did, you know that there are 11 bones hidden in the pictures of the story. The letters on them will spell a very important message that Dusty and Danny discovered and want to share with you. If you didn’t read the story yet, that’s OK. You can still use this fun activity to figure out the message.
Free Bookmarks
These adorable bookmarks celebrate reading and encourage a growth mindset. Included are black and white pictures of Dusty. You can color-your-own bookmarks for a fun craft activity or gift. They all have messages that Dusty wants kids to remember
Free Bookmark Craft
Use the discussion questions and activities in this guide to help raise awareness and understanding about people who face learning challenges. Included are activity pages, journal pages, coloring pages, and lesson plans. I hope to encourage all children to have a positive mindset about learning, and I hope to reassure each child that he or she can find the way to learn best by refusing to give up.
Tail Wagging Activities
This set of over 50 worksheets and activity pages reinforces growth mindset affirmations and teaches vocabulary that promotes a positive attitude. Students can color posters, complete puzzles, solve mazes, journal, and play games while learning how to have the right mindset to achieve their goals.
This growth mindset game is a doggone fun activity to teach students the importance of having a positive mindset in order to meet their goals. Having the right kind of thinking takes practice. This game helps students identify the difference between a growth and a fixed mindset. The game includes over 45 phrases that children can use to change their thinking.
The Dusty and Friends Coloring and Activity Book About Friendship is the perfect way to keep kids entertained while learning about being a good friend. Inside this engaging printable workbook are over 60 activities and coloring pages that are perfect for working on social-emotional learning and skills like problem-solving, visual discrimination, critical thinking, fine motor control, writing, conversation, alphabet and numbers, concentration, and imagination. A paperback version is also available.
Dusty Shakes It Up is an interactive audio storybook with a set of digital task cards. Together, these resources make up Boom Cards™ – a unique, all-in-one learning game. Dusty the Dog teaches young kids about having a growth mindset while practicing reading, listening, comprehension, basic phonics, following directions, and more.
This is a digital phonics bundle where kids can practice CVC words as they join Dusty the Dog on a fun digital storybook adventure. This Boom Card deck bundle includes three interactive stories with short vowel sounds, beginning consonant sounds, and ending consonant sounds.
Challenge kids to think creatively and solve mysteries with this set of Digital Boom Task Cards™. Dusty’s Thinking Games includes two, escape room, digital games that encourage kids to use problem-solving, critical thinking, and logic strategies to find the answers to Dusty the Dog’s problems.