Naming Your Feelings
Notice what you are feeling and put a name to it — being able to label an emotion is the first step to understanding and managing it
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Naming Your Feelings means noticing a feeling and giving it a name as the first step to understanding it. We will practise once together, then check a fresh example.
Spend about 12 minutes naming feelings from short situations, then checking a fresh label.
Offer a voluntary feeling-word check-in with fiction as the default, not an assessment of private emotion.
Offer a voluntary feeling-word check-in with fiction as the default, not an assessment of private emotion.
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Label everyday feelings from short situations.
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Childhood Stress: How Parents Can Help
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Childhood Stress: How Parents Can Help supports Naming Your Feelings. An adult previews and guides; this is a learning page, not a scored quiz.
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Check understanding
- emotional literacy research
- Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children (HeadStart.gov)
- emotion vocabulary development 4-11 years (PMC)
“When your child seems upset, excited, or frustrated, can they stop and tell you what emotion they're feeling — even if they can't fully explain why?”
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- Type
- Meta
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Self-Awareness
- Age range
- Ages 5–6