series roadmap
🎯 THE PROBLEM PARENTS AND EDYCATORS FACE
🎯 As a Parent:
- You want your child to grow—emotionally, socially, academically
- You know reading together matters, but you're not sure how to make conversations meaningful
- You feel like you should be doing more to support development, but you don't know what
- You want character education but you're tired of preachy books or worksheets that feel like punishment
- You're looking for books that are genuinely funny AND teach real lessons
- You want resources that make parenting easier, not harder
🎯 As an Educator:
- You have limited prep time but standards to meet
- You want to teach the whole child—academics AND social-emotional learning
- You need materials that are engaging but also rigorous
- You want resources that differentiate for diverse learners
- You're looking for books that connect home and school learning
- You want assessment tools that are authentic, not just worksheets
**Sound familiar? **
✨ THE HAROLD ECOSYSTEM SOLUTION
✅ What You Get with Every Book Purchase:
You're not buying a book.
You're buying a **complete, integrated learning system** that serves you, your child/students, AND their other parent/teacher.
✅ **The Three-Zone Ecosystem Explained: **
When you purchase a Harold book, you get access to:
🏡 PARENT ZONE
Your complete conversation and connection guide
- Before reading conversation starters
- Key moments to pause and discuss
- Discussion questions at 3 levels
- Real-life scenario applications with coaching language
- Hands-on family activities
- Developmental context (what's normal at this age)
- Red flags (when to seek professional support)
- Parent coaching tips
- Quick reference takeaways
🏫 EDUCATOR ZONE*
Your complete classroom instruction guide
- Clear learning objectives aligned with standards
- USA Common Core alignment
- Australian Curriculum alignment
- Pre-reading activities (3-4 options)
- Key discussion moments for class
- Comprehension questions at multiple levels
- 5+ classroom activities (hands-on and reflective)
- Differentiation strategies for diverse learners
- Assessment tools (multiple approaches)
- Real-world connections and SEL integration
- Extensions for advanced learners
- Family connection ideas
📖 READER ZONE**
Your student's personal learning guide
- Before reading activation questions
- While reading reflection prompts
- After reading comprehension and meaning-making
- Real-life application questions
- Personal growth tracking tools
- Age-appropriate, student-friendly language
- Ownership-focused design
- Space for drawing, writing, thinking
🌟 WHY THE HAROLD ECOSYSTEM IS DIFFERENT
✅ Every Other Series Offers:
- A story
- Maybe discussion questions
- Sometimes a teacher guide
- Usually disconnected resources
✅HAROLD OFFERS:
- A story
- Integrated ecosystem across THREE stakeholders
- Same lesson, three different approaches
- Seamless connection between school and home
- Student grows from three supportive angles
- Professional-grade resources included
- SEL explicitly integrated
- Standards-aligned (USA AND Australia)
- Differentiation built in
- Developmentally appropriate progression
- Complete arc development across series
💡 WHAT PARENTS ARE GETTING
✅You're Getting an End to:
❌ "I don't know what to talk about after we read"
→ ✅ Pre-written conversation starters and discussion questions
❌ "How do I know if this is normal development?"
→ ✅ Developmental context for every age
❌ "I want to support character development but don't know how"
→ ✅ Real-life scenarios with coaching language
❌ "Reading feels like homework, not connection"
→ ✅ Engaging books + natural conversation frameworks
❌ "I'm not an expert—am I doing this right?"
→ ✅ Research-backed guidance with permission to do it your way
✅ You're Getting Access to:
✅ **Research-backed parenting guidance** - Strategies based on child development science
✅ **Conversation frameworks** - Real words to use, natural ways to connect
✅ **Real-life application** - How lessons connect to your actual family
✅ **Growth tracking** - How to notice and celebrate development
✅ **Developmental understanding** - What's normal, what to watch, when to get help
✅ **Quality time** - Reading together becomes meaningful, connected time
✅ **Character education** - Authentic lessons, not preachy
✅ **Values alignment** - Books that reflect what you want to teach
✅ **Peace of mind** - You know you're supporting development well
✅ **Your child's growth** - Measurable development across multiple domains
✅The Parent Benefit:
**Instead of: **
- Guessing if you're supporting development well
- Wondering what to talk about
- Feeling like you're not doing enough
- Reading disconnected from any larger purpose
**You get: **
- Clear frameworks for meaningful conversation
- Understanding of child development
- Real tools for supporting growth
- Books that become connection points
- Confidence in your parent
📚 WHAT EDUCATORS ARE GETTING
✅ You're Getting an End to:
❌ "I need standards-aligned lesson plans but don't have time to create them"
→ ✅ Complete, ready-to-teach lesson plans
❌ "How do I teach the whole child with limited time?"
→ ✅ Integrated SEL + academics (already done)
❌ "How do I differentiate for diverse learners?"
→ ✅ Built-in scaffolds and extensions
❌ "How do I assess understanding authentically?"
→ ✅ Multiple assessment approaches provided
❌ "How do I connect with families?"
→ ✅ Parent resources to extend learning home
✅ You're Getting Access to:
✅ **Complete lesson plans** - No prep work required (or modify as needed)
✅ **Standards alignment** - USA Common Core + Australian Curriculum
✅ **Differentiation** - Scaffolds for struggling learners, extensions for advanced
✅ **Assessment tools** - Multiple approaches (not just tests)
✅ **SEL integration** - Social-emotional learning built in
✅ **Classroom activities** - 5+ per book, hands-on and reflective
✅ **Home connection** - Materials to share with families
✅ **Discussion frameworks** - Guided inquiry, not just questions
✅ **Real-world connections** - Relevance to students' lives
✅ **Time savings** - Prep work already done
✅ **Professional resources** - Research-based, educator-reviewed
✅ The Educator Benefit:
**Instead of: **
- Spending hours creating lesson plans
- Wondering if you're hitting standards
- Scrambling for differentiation strategies
- Having disconnected home-school learning
- Feeling like you're not teaching "the whole child"
**You get: **
- Professional-grade resources ready to use
- Clear standards alignment (documented)
- Differentiation already built in
- Family engagement strategies
- Integrated character + academic learning
- More time for actual teaching and relationships with students
**Cost of one book: ** Less than one coffee per week for a year
**Value: ** Hours of prep time saved + professional resources + engaged families + student growth