![]() ![]() Also use feeling words to talk about how the child is feeling too. “Look, mummy is happy” or “oh dear, that boy is sad”. Use them as often as possible in real-life situations to label how people are feeling. Choose just a few words to start with – I usually start with happy, sad and cross.To begin with here are some ideas for working with younger children (up to 7) and teaching those basic feeling words – happy, sad, cross etc. Here are some ideas for teaching emotion vocabulary to children. For example, many children will know what “cross” means, but what about “frustrated” or “furious”? They both kind of mean “cross”, but would be used in very different situations. There are so many words to describe feelings and they often have subtly different meanings which are difficult to describe succinctly. This is even more difficult for children, and especially children with language difficulties. It’s complicated and often difficult to find the words that most clearly express what we want to say. We all struggle to talk about how we feel.
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