Help your children explore their feelings, build self-expression skills, and develop emotional awareness with this comprehensive Parent/Caregiver Guide for Sandy Writes Her Story. Designed for families, this guide provides clear, easy-to-follow tips and activities for reading together and responding to your child's symptoms and feelings in a warm, validating way.

This guide introduces the Caregiver Response Continuum, helping you identify situations when you may be embodying as The Anchor (Gary), The Current (Otis), or The Little Stroke (Thea). By understanding these instincts, you can better support your child’s emotional wellbeing and resilience. 

Help your students understand invisible feelings and experiences, build emotional vocabulary, and practice key literacy skills using picture book Sandy Writes Her Story. This 25-page classroom guide includes print-ready worksheets, graphic organizers, SEL prompts, and discussion questions to support comprehension, storytelling, and self-expression in grades K–5.