Using Books to Teach About Feelings

Now that you’ve had a chance to review some books, let’s check out this caregiver sharing a teacher-made feelings book with her class.

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An infant or younger toddler developing social-emotional literacy is in a better position to expand his or her awareness of others, develop friendship skills, and move along toward a higher level of social play.

Older toddlers, with more language and more opportunities to play and interact with other children, need to develop social-emotional literacy skills to manage or regulate their emotions and to be successful in solving the social problems that will naturally evolve as they grow. Teaching emotional literacy gives children the “vocabulary” to understand emotions, and the foundation for this growth.