Enhance your social-emotional learning lessons with the Emotional Regulation Book Companion and Read Aloud Activities Bundle! These 5 read aloud book lessons (The Color Monster, In My Heart, and more) and activities help students with identifying emotions, including a feelings check in chart.
⭐Children will participate in classroom discussions and book chats, share their feelings in written form, and participate in fun, engaging activities that build emotional awareness and social skills.
⭐The book companions include interactive lessons encouraging students to explore and articulate their feelings through creative activities like drawing, writing, and discussion prompts. These activities foster empathy, self-awareness, and effective communication skills, building a positive classroom community.
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What's Included in the Emotional Awareness book companion pack:
- 5 Children’s books related to emotional awareness and feelings
- Detailed lesson plans
- Book chat cards to guide discussion
- Anchor charts
- Book responses & writing prompts
- 4 follow-up activities for every book (2 in digital format)
- Book companion guide with safe links
- Google Slides ready for use in Google Classroom
- Images for use in Seesaw
- Interactive PowerPoint file
Five feelings & emotions book companions included:
❤️1. The Color Monster by Anna Llenas
FOCUS: how we express our emotions
Children will be taught healthy and harmful ways of expressing emotions. They will identify how each emotion makes them feel and what they can do when they feel that way.
❤️2. In My Heart by Jo Witek
FOCUS: physical ways our bodies experience emotions
Children will identify and share how feelings are experienced inside and how they identify with each emotion.
❤️3. The Feelings Book by Todd Parr
FOCUS: understanding that it is normal to have different emotions
Children will learn that it is helpful to share our emotions with someone we trust and will be encouraged to identify that person.
❤️4. Glad Monster, Sad Monster by Ed Emberley & Anne Miranda
FOCUS: we have a variety of emotions that we experience differently
Children will identify which events and experiences cause them to feel a certain way.
❤️5. F is for Feelings by Goldie Millar & Lisa A. Berger
FOCUS: emotional language and vocabulary
Children will practice using the new vocabulary to express themselves. They will also identify the feelings that they like and dislike and why.
✅Check out the preview for a closer look at what this resource provides: the books, lessons, story activities, and digital activities.
✏️LESSONS:
There is a detailed lesson plan for each book, with “Book Chat” cards and questions to guide your discussion before, during, and after reading.
An interactive anchor chart and writing activity are also included, focusing on the social-emotional skills presented in the book and encouraging children to express their thinking.
✏️STORY ACTIVITIES:
Each book has 4 follow-up activities to build upon the book’s social-emotional lesson. A fun variety of activities are included for independent, partner, and small group use.
✏️DIGITAL ACTIVITIES:
Every book companion comes with a digital anchor chart, writing template, and at least 2 digital activities. These are ready in Google Slides™ for use in Google Classroom™.
❤️Suggestions on How to Use:
- Each lesson starts with a book chat that continues during and after reading a book. There are questions included to guide your discussion.
- There is an anchor chart idea provided to enhance the book’s lesson.
- A follow-up writing activity can be used to extend the discussion.
- There are 4 activities for each children’s book. Some include digital options.
- I suggest reading 1 book per week and doing the lesson. Use the extra activities to reinforce the topic the story covers throughout the week.
- Differentiated templates included. Please choose what fits best with your students’ abilities and needs.
- The lessons and activities work great for after morning meetings or end of the day lessons, school counselors and classroom teachers, and children in K-2.
Don’t own a copy of a book? No problem! Safelinks to video recordings of books being read aloud are included, as well as a book list of more emotional awareness books to use during your lessons.
DISCLAIMER: The video links to the read-aloud and supplemental lesson content are subject to change at any time. Proud to be Primary is not the creator of these videos, and therefore the links may be removed by the creators or authors of the content at any time at their discretion. If you find a broken link in the resource, please let us know by leaving a Q&A, and try searching YouTube for an alternate video to watch instead. Read alouds online are also available for teachers via the library website Hoopla.
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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rebecca A. says "I can not say enough positive things about this. Buy it! I teach social skills and it is so nice to have literature that the kids don't even notice they are getting social-emotional learning in. My whole team are fans, and so nice to have ready for subs too. Thank you!"
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Victoria L. says, "This is an incredible resource to help my students with their self regulation and well being. My students enjoyed doing the activities, thanks so much!"
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