Supplemental Resources for Communication
List of Emotions: 135 Words that Express Feelings
The list of emotions a typical pre-K child understands may be limited to happy, mad, sad, and scared (Harter, S., & Buddin, B. J.), but as they grow, the list expands, and they develop a more nuanced vocabulary to explain how they feel.
Morning Meeting Questions
Morning meetings are an excellent way to help students transition from home to school and help them get ready to learn. And just like the benefits from greeting your students as they enter your classroom, these meetings can help you connect with your students, help students build relationships with each other, and promote an overall sense of community in the classroom. To get a better idea of what morning meetings are about, please watch the ... Read more
Social Emotional IEP Goals
Social Emotional IEP Goal Bank We understand that you want to provide your students with the greatest possible chance for success in meeting their IEP goals. To help out, we’ve assembled a list of 10 frequently cited Social Emotional IEP goals as well as actionable objectives to include with them. Best of all, we’ve linked ready to go lessons and printables to each objective and provide additional resource suggestions to extend learning, giving you time ... Read more
Would You Rather Questions For Kids
Getting to know your students, and students getting to know each other, can be a real struggle, and this is especially true in remote learning environments. To help we’ve created a series of Would You Rather Questions for Kids based on the classic ice breaker game.
Feelings Wheel
The Feelings Wheel is a tool created by Gloria Wilcox in 1982 for teens and adults seeking to better understand and explain their emotions. This unique circular design allows users to navigate and explore their feelings, moving from broader categories to more specific emotions, thereby fostering emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and effective communication.
All About Me Worksheet
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary and Middle SEL Skill(s): Communication Duration: 30 minutes Materials: (available in Supplemental Resources section of your Centervention Educator Account) All About Me Worksheet This all about me worksheet is a great way to help students get to know each other and get families engaged! It has two parts, each of which can be added to the student’s SEL journal. We’ve added typable fields to the worksheet (with the exception of locations ... Read more
50 Positive Affirmations for Kids
How do kids benefit from positive affirmations? When we believe something will come true, either positive or negative, it is much more likely to be the case. So why not use that to our advantage and focus on the positive? In fact, we know from research that when we focus, we reinforce areas and pathways in our brains to make them more resilient. And with these new pathways, we reduce the influence of prior, negative ... Read more
Active Listening Exercises
Recommended Grade Level: Elementary, Middle, and High SEL Skill(s): Communication Duration: 30 minutes Materials: Educator Instructions for Active Listening Exercises Small Group Active Listening Exercises Gather students in a common area and ask one student to come forward. Tell students that when we listen with our ears, eyes and bodies it’s called active listening. Next tell the group you will show what it looks like when someone is not being a good listener. Partner Active ... Read more
Brain Breaks For Kids
How Do Kids Take a Brain Break? It can be a good idea to intentionally plan a brain break mid-lesson, roughly every 20-30 minutes, though frequency can vary by age. When you plan ahead, you may avoid the slump of disengagement and can also seize an opportunity to get creative with the activity. There are three general styles of brain breaks that all apply to the end goal of providing brief respite from rigorous learning ... Read more
SEL Books
For obvious reasons, we hope that you use our online social emotional learning interventions to help your students practice and improve their social emotional skills at their own pace; however, we know that it helps to reinforce learning with additional resources like printables, worksheets, group activities, and SEL books and games.