Do your students need help identifying feelings and emotions? Enhance your social-emotional learning lesson with the Emotional Regulation Book Companion and SEL Read Aloud Activities for the book The Color Monster by Anna Llenas! This read aloud book lesson helps students learn emotional regulation with emotional social scenarios, color monster directed drawing, and emotions sorting activity.
⭐The Color Monster book companion focuses on 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.
⭐Great for your back to school lesson plans or add to your read-aloud any time of year! Perfect for your read-aloud time, SEL block, morning meeting, whole-class discussions, counselor lessons, sub-plans, and more!
⭐Kids in kindergarten, first grade and second grade will participate in a classroom discussion and book chat, share their ideas in writing, and engage in fun activities that promote emotional awareness.
❤️The Color Monster book companion includes:
- a detailed lesson plan that makes teaching simple!
- guided questions for your classroom discussion
- anchor chart idea to organize your lesson
- writing activity to encourage reflection and kids to respond to a prompt
- 4 FUN follow-up activities (printable & digital included)
- Digital anchor chart, writing template, and a few digital activities. These are ready in Google Slides for use in Google Classroom.
- Interactive PowerPoint file of the digital templates for use in your preferred platform
4 Activities in The Color Monster book companion:
- Emotions role-play scenario cards & puppet show color monster cards
- Jar writing activity
- Harmful vs. Helpful Ways to Handle Emotions sorting activity
- Monster directed drawing & writing prompt
✅Check out the preview for a closer look at what this resource provides: the book, lesson, story activities, and digital activities.
Why you'll love this book companion!
- This children’s book is carefully chosen to teach an essential SEL topic.
- Covers a week of SEL instruction with a book lesson and engaging follow-up activities.
- Facilitates meaningful discussions and builds social-emotional skills while growing classroom community.
- Supports English Language Arts standards and develops literacy skills.
- Includes engaging printable and digital activities kids will enjoy.
- Perfect for whole-group lessons, homeschool, and one-to-one classrooms.
TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 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!”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Helen M. says, “This was a great addition to our feelings unit!”
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