Last month I completed a series of social emotional activities built around the RULER method for social emotional learning. Over the next few weeks I’d like to share them with you! You can purchase the activities in my TpT store, or use them as inspiration for your own activities. This post will focus on labeling emotions.
This unit is my favorite in the RULER bundle because it’s all about building an emotional vocabulary, and it lends itself well to some of your usual vocabulary activities. Here’s a peek at some of them:
Here’s another feelings journal that expands on the ones in the recognizing and understanding units. Now students find themselves on the mood meter, reflect on the feeling, and label it.
This activity is one of my favorites! Students choose four emotion words, one from each quadrant on the mood meter. Then, they come up with four similar words for each of their original words, and order them according to intensity.
Students practice labeling someone else’s emotions as they read…
…and notice the emotional arc of a story.
Each of these activities includes a digital version, so it can easily be used with distance learning:
Students reflect on an emotional flashpoint in a book they’re reading, and invent emotion words for emotions they experience, but that don’t correspond to a known, English word.
If you’re looking for social-emotional learning resources, learn more about labeling emotions or preview the above activities.
