Simons Story
No. of pages 16
Published: 2004
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To the Teacher
Use this story for life skils, health or cultural studies lessons, or as reader in English class. The following key concepts are dealt with:
- Grief brings overwhelming feelings.
- It is all right to have these feelings
- Adults can help children by acknowledging these feelings.
- When you are suffering grief, it helps to let your feelings out and cry.
- It is important to have memories of people who have died and to go back to them.
- It takes time, but the sadness does get better eventually.
- It is all right to have fun even when you are grieving.
Young adults are more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than anyone else. We should encourage children to develope self-respect and respect for others from an early age.
This is one of the JAWS HIV/AIDS readers developed for primary school learners.The story conveys the subtle psycho-social dimensions of the pandemic affecting learners' lives (personal and social developement). It can be used as a reader, or to help teachers introduce subject matter that is difficult to manage in the classroom.
This book features in the following series: Jaws Series, Junior African Writers-Hiv-Aids Readers .
This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.
There are 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Pearson Education Limited .
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