This writing prompt, ‘A Deserved Award’ helps students to write about which member of their family deserves an award. It encourages students to think about the good qualities of a family member and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This learning activity, ‘A Smile a Day’, explores informal relations, where one of the variables is difficult to quantify. It features a graph of feelings over time and a graph template for students to complete. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This story, ‘Breakfast’ tells what happens when children surprise their father on his birthday. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This graphic organiser, ‘Breaking Down Stereotypes’ helps students to think about the consequences of an individual’s behaviour on society.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Communication’ asks students to answer questions about different ways of communicating. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, draw conclusions and think about word meanings.
This ‘Emotions’ chart uses emoticons representing different moods to help students or teachers to communicate their feelings and emotions. It encourages students to be aware of their feelings and the feelings of those around them.
This graphic organiser, ‘Evaluating Gender Bias’ asks students to evaluate gender stereotypes and record their findings.
This writing prompt, ‘Fear of …’ helps students to write about something that scares them. It encourages students to think about how they feel when they are scared and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Feeling Bugged’ helps students to write about the things that bug or bother them. It encourages students to think about how they react to things that annoy them and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Feeling Safe’ helps students to write about who or what makes them feel safe. It encourages students to think about their personal safety and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Feeling Scared’ helps students to write about things that make them scared. It encourages students to think about how the body reacts to fear and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This set of flashcards,’Feelings’ supports vocabulary development about emotions. Topic based flashcards are a great tool for teachers or parents to build a child’s vocabulary and improve word association. Browse over 200+ thematic flashcards and make learning fun!
This set of flashcards,’Feelings’ supports vocabulary development about emotions. Topic based flashcards are a great tool for teachers or parents to build a child’s vocabulary and improve word association. Browse over 200+ thematic flashcards and make learning fun!
This set of flashcards,’Feelings’ supports vocabulary development about emotions. Topic based flashcards are a great tool for teachers or parents to build a child’s vocabulary and improve word association. Browse over 200+ thematic flashcards and make learning fun!
This set of flashcards,’Feelings’ supports vocabulary development about emotions. Topic based flashcards are a great tool for teachers or parents to build a child’s vocabulary and improve word association. Browse over 200+ thematic flashcards and make learning fun!
This graphic organiser, ‘Fishing for Solutions’ allows students to create solutions for various conflicts and to decide which solutions are the best.
This writing prompt, ‘Getting Angry’ helps students to write about the things that make them angry. It encourages students to think about their feelings and emotions and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Happiest Day’ helps students to write about the happiest day they have ever had. It encourages students to think about what was so special about their happiest day ever and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Happy Times’ helps students to write about the best time they have ever had with a friend. It encourages students to think about friends and fun times and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Is TV for Me?’ supports students to understanding that we are affected by the things we see and hear.
This writing prompt, ‘Left Out’ helps students to write about a time when they felt left out. It encourages students to think about being left out and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This oral language photo activity ‘Angry, Surprised, Embarrassed’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Anxious, Frightened’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This oral language photo activity ‘Happy, Sad’, enhances vocabulary and concept development by providing a thought-provoking visual stimulus that can be used as a prompt to engage students in discussion. Each photo is complete with an accompanying lesson plan featuring tips and activities to develop oral language and vocabulary further.
This diagnostic assessment template ‘Look What I Can Do!’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This vocabulary development activity, ‘Maggie’s First Day’ supports vocabulary development by encouraging students to participate in a read-aloud activity by acting out feelings portrayed by characters in a story. It is aimed at helping students recognise language related to feelings. It provides feeling faces picture and word cards.
This art project, ‘Make a ‘What I Like’ Poster’ provides instructions for creating a positive self portrait using different coloured paper and marker pens.
This art project, ‘Make Emotive Face Spoons’ provides instructions for creating a face spoon using coloured marker pens and wooden spoons.
This art project, ‘Make Emotive Pop Sticks’ provides instructions for creating emotive pop sticks using plain pop sticks and pom poms.
This graphic organiser, ‘Moving Along’ allows students to describe feelings of both themselves and other groups of people in history.
This writing prompt, ‘Peer Pressure’ helps students to write about a time when a peer pressured them. It encourages students to think about negative influences and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This writing prompt, ‘Phobias’ helps students to write about phobias. It encourages students to think about how intense fear might affect their life and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This diagnostic assessment template ‘Portfolio Parent Letter’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This writing prompt, ‘Proudest Moments’ helps students to write about the accomplishments of which they are most proud. It encourages students to think about achieving goals and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This graphic organiser, ‘Snapshots of Me’ provides opportunities for students to describe themselves in order to create details for writing letters.
This diagnostic Assessment Item, ‘Social-Emotional Development Checklist’ can be used to assess students’ social-emotional development.
This kids news activity, ‘Texters Studied In New Research’ reports on research into texting and ethical thinking.
This writing prompt, ‘Troubled Times’ helps students to write about a time when they got into some trouble. It encourages students to think about the consequences of their actions and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.