📘 Toss Your Kruddy!®

A Story-Based Tier 1 SEL Tool for the Classroom

More than a story — Toss Your Kruddy™ is a classroom-ready SEL resource that builds emotional awareness, self-regulation, and decision-making through engaging storytelling, humor, and guided reflection.

A teacher’s guide with mindfulness-based questions and discussion prompts is included in the back of the book for easy classroom use.

🌿 The Story

Everyone has a Shnoogy… and everyone has a Kruddy.

In this engaging and relatable story, Angie Quinn and her friends discover they can influence how they feel by choosing which thoughts to follow — helpful thoughts (Shnoogy) or unhelpful thoughts (Kruddy).

As students begin to recognize these inner choices, they learn to:

• Pause
• Reflect
• Choose more helpful responses

🧠 Classroom Impact

Designed as a Tier 1 universal support within an MTSS framework, Toss Your Kruddy™ provides proactive, whole-class instruction in:

• Self-awareness
• Self-management
• Responsible decision-making

The story introduces a shared emotional vocabulary and a simple 3-step reset that can be reinforced throughout the day.

It equips students with practical tools before behaviours escalate, helping to:

• Reduce disruptions
• Support a positive classroom climate
• Protect instructional time

🎧 Inclusive Audio Integration

Each chapter includes a QR code linking to a professionally recorded storytelling experience, supporting:

• Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
• Emerging and developing readers
• Listening centers
• Diverse learning needs

📚 Built for Easy Classroom Use

• Tier 1 SEL support for all students
• Teacher’s guide with discussion prompts
• Inclusive audio storytelling
• 18 downloadable extension activities
• Shnoogy Rap (music + movement integration)
• Reinforces the 3-step emotional reset
• Flexible use in morning meetings, transitions, and routines
• Supports school-wide emotional vocabulary