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Social-Emotional Language: Feelings and Fun
Social-Emotional Language: Feelings and Fun
Social-Emotional Language
Social-Emotional Language
"Emotional Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, and respond to emotions in oneself and others in a healthy manner."
What Can Adults Do?
❤️Clearly Teach Words to Name Feelings
❤️Share Your Own Feelings
❤️Name Children's Feelings During Everyday Activities
❤️Play Games, Sing Songs, Read Stories with Feeling Words
❤️Feeling Activities
How Does Emotional Literacy Help Us Manage Strong Feelings and Solve Problems?
"You have to name it, to tame it."
First, we need to be able to notice and name our own feelings and the feelings of others. Then, we can learn and practice ways to stay calm and solve problems together.
All feelings are okay; it's what you do with them that matters!
All feelings are okay; it's what you do with them that matters!
Content from the Centre on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early LearningCSEFEL Module 2 handout, Enhancing Emotional Vocabulary in Young Children
Learning Emotional Vocabulary
Learning Emotional Vocabulary
We can help children learn to communicate their emotions by clearly teaching the words to share how they feel. There are a few steps to help children learn these feeling words.
▶️ Choose the words you want to teach (Let’s use the word “frustrated”.)
▶️ Give a child-friendly explanation of the word (“You feel frustrated when something is hard for you.”)
▶️ Encourage the child to repeat the word out loud (“That’s a big word! You try it: frustrated.”)
▶️ Talk about the word while using it in a story or activity you picked (“In our story, Ralph felt frustrated because every time he tried to put his lunch bag on the shelf, something fell out of it.”)
▶️ Give more examples (“I feel frustrated when the light turns green and the cars ahead of me don’t go. Your daddy might feel frustrated when he makes dinner and is waiting at the table for your family to come eat it.”)
▶️ Ask the child to think of their own examples (“Tell me about a time when you felt frustrated.”)
▶️ Encourage the child to use the word in a sentence (“I feel frustrated when....”)
Looking at Ideas to Help Build Emotional Literacy...
Looking at Ideas to Help Build Emotional Literacy...
Using Books (and Mirrors!)
Using Books (and Mirrors!)
Books are a great way to help kids learn about feelings. CSEFEL’s ‘Book Nook’ was made for teachers and parents. It gives fun and easy ideas to help kids build social and emotional skills during story time or class activities.
Each 'book nook' matches with a popular children’s book like On Monday When it Rained or My Many Colored Days. Here are some ways to use these books:
Use mirrors to learn feeling words: Each child gets a mirror and makes faces that show the feelings in the story.
Make emotion masks: Children create masks that show different feelings and talk about what those feelings mean.
Connect the story to real life: Children share a time when they felt the same way as a character in the book.
Talk about body language: Look at how characters in books show feelings without words, such as by using their faces, hands, or the way they are standing or moving.
These activities support different ways of learning and sharing!
Learning About Emotions Through Stories
Learning About Emotions Through Stories
Below you will find links to some of our favourite books that help us learn more words to talk about our feelings. Remember, all feelings are okay, it's what we do with them that matters!
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