The document is designed to provide teachers with ideas, materials, and resources for positive emotional development in elementary level students. It is noted that although many of the activities are geared to emotionally disturbed children, they are applicable to any classroom. Inventories of students' attitudes and experiences are included. A bibliography lists 183 children's books categorized according to such needs as patience, responsibility, adoption, embarrassment, and physical handicaps. Among teaching techniques and activities included are using puppets to reach the emotionally disturbed, poetry therapy, values clarification, and ways to get a discussion going. (IM)