Using Emojis to Understand Feelings & Emotions

This resource contains several emoticons (emojis) representing more than a dozen feelings that can be used to help children express their feelings in a variety of settings, around a variety of topics. For example:

• Counselors may use them to help children share their feelings in a small group, particularly children who are nonverbal or reluctant to speak.

• Teachers may use them during reading workshop as a way to invite children to respond to texts and stimulate rich literacy conversations.

Simply print, laminate, and attach craft sticks to each emoticon to make teacher and student sets.

Use them during reading workshop to:

• monitor student comprehension

• provide opportunities to respond emotionally to texts

• stimulate deep conversations about books

Use them during writing workshop to:

• encourage constructive comments about their peers' writing during sharing times

• allow children to respond to teacher-modeled writing during lessons

This set includes:

• large emoticons for teacher-led lessons and modeling

• small emoticons for student collections

• posters to facilitate teaching and the creation of anchor charts

• anchor chart title labels

• an emoji key

The emojis in this set represent:

• happy

• sad

• scared

• mad

• shocked

• surprised

• bored

• confused / thinking

• sick / gross / disgusting

• angry

• cool / neat / wow

• love / favorite

• annoyed / ridiculous

• funny

• silly

Black & white emoticons have been provided for student use.

** As a BONUS, these emojis can be used outside the context of reading and writing workshops. For example, they also work well during class meetings or any other type of setting where students' opinions and feelings are an integral part of the discussion.

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