A set of cards showing eight common emotions: angry, anxious, confused, happy, sad, surprised, tired and worried. Three sets included in download: one with fair skinned faces and captions, one showing a darker skin tone with captions and a third showing all the faces but without captions.
Phrases that show how the body behaves when displaying emotion. It will get the children showing the emotion in their writing rather than saying it. e.g. He breathed deeply, leaned forward and began banging his fists on the table.
Plutchik's Wheel of Emotion is a fantastic resource for encouraging complexity and experimentation whilst students develop drama work. I often bring it up on the screen but it is useful to have as permanent display to challenge students.
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5 Point Scales that I use with the children in my classroom/SEND to support self-regulation and emotional responses. I have modified the pictures in line with their interests. Resource uploaded in PDF formation - if you need editable versions please let me know.
Ideas taken from The Incredible 5-Point Scale: Assisting Children with ASDs in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses. (A brilliant book!)
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Suitable for new RSHE 2026 guidance. PSHE Lesson Resources - Emotional Literacy - Self Awareness - 1 - 2 hours PP, worksheets, clips, well differentiated. Useful for PSHE or Life Skills, tutor time or intervention pastoral sessions. These resources have been designed to be engaging, detailed and easy to follow. All our resources are editable (so easy to adapt for your classes) and are designed to last one hour each.
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A worksheet resource examining the use of Emotive Language in Newspapers. It has three tasks that are progressively more difficult as students consider the effect particular language has on the reading audience.
By the end of the lesson, your pupils
should be able to: Understand why puberty can change the way we feel and act in everyday life, recognise how emotions change during puberty, have some strategies for dealing with these feelings in a positive way.
Lesson covers facial emotion recognition and asks whether it's okay to lie to someone to make them happy. Debates galore. Add some feed back please..:)
These Character Emotions Charts can be used when reading to understand how a character is feeling or during writing to add emotions to stories. You may want to put a copy in students’ reading response journals and/or their writing journals.
This freebie includes a color and black & white copy of two different charts. The first chart already provides a list of basic emotions and corresponding clip art. The second chart is for older students as it includes synonyms. Students may add to the lists as they find more synonyms. They may also want to use the blank faces to draw feelings and write additional emotions they find while reading.
Use with pupils who have difficulty understanding and managing their emotions. Children can stick a little photo of their face on the traffic light, depending on how they feel at that time.
Submitted by Kirby W.
An emotion wheel for improving the vocabulary of pupils and helping them to explore the feelings of characters in literature. Example of how I use it included.
A simple PowerPoint showing children and a range of emotions. Used to promote discussion around feelings and what we can learn about how a person is feeling from their body language and facial expression.