Reading List: Understanding Emotions by Abigale Rose

The Way I Feel

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-23 16:40:53 UTC

A colorful picture book that helps young children identify and express their emotions through relatable situations and expressive illustrations. With this story, the student's prediction skills could be built upon. When the book is being read, before each page is turned the student's could be asked what they predict or think is going to happen on the next page based solely on the pictures.

The Color Monster: A Story About Emotions

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-23 16:40:54 UTC

A unique story about a monster who needs help sorting out his mixed-up emotions, using different colors to represent different feelings. This story would be able to support the student's writing abilities. After the story is read the students would complete a writing activity where they draw the emotion they're feeling, with the matching color, and then explain their picture by writing about the picture.

In My Heart: A Book of Feelings

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-23 16:40:54 UTC

A beautifully illustrated book that explores emotions through size, shape, and color, helping children understand their feelings. The students would be able to promote their text to illustration skills through creating their own mini book talking about their feelings and using pictures to show how big or little their feelings are.

Today I Feel Silly: And Other Moods That Make My Day

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-23 16:40:54 UTC

A fun, rhyming story that shows how moods can change throughout the day and helps children recognize different emotions. With the help of this book, students would be able to advance upon their vocabulary skills. Teachers could take the new moods, or emotions, taught in this book and add the words to the vocab wall so that the students see these important words more than just in the story.

Mean Soup

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-23 16:40:56 UTC

A simple story about dealing with bad days and angry feelings through a creative cooking activity with mom.

Students can improve upon their writing skills by creating their own recipe with the "ingredients" that help them to calm down. The recipe can also include things that make them happy or cheer them up at home.

My Happy Life

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-23 16:40:57 UTC

An early chapter book about a young girl named Dani who maintains her optimism despite facing various challenges.

The students creative and reflective writing skills would be improved upon with an interactive writing prompt asking the students to think of one of the happiest moments in their life. Then think about a time when they were sad, but how did they change their feelings from being sad. How did they become happy again? Happy like they were in that happiest moment of their life.

Feelings: A Story in Seasons

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-23 16:41:06 UTC

A beautiful graphic novel that explores emotions through the changing seasons, perfect for young readers. Students could work on the literacy component, fluency by using different reading strategies such as choral reading or paired reading.

El Deafo

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-23 16:41:06 UTC

A heartwarming graphic novel memoir about a young rabbit who deals with various emotions while navigating school with hearing loss. El Deafo won the John Newbery Medal in 2015. This novel could be supported with the literacy component Illustration Analysis. Being a graphic novel, the class could discuss how the pictures support the storyline, and then the students could create their own graphic storyline about an event in their life.

Real Friends

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-23 16:41:06 UTC

A touching graphic novel about friendship, anxiety, and self-discovery during elementary school years.

The literacy component comprehension can be supported with this book, by discussing and documenting the settings and characters after each chapter.

It's Okay to Not Be Okay

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-30 23:45:05 UTC

A heartfelt book about mental health and self-acceptance. Hayes shares personal stories and practical advice, encouraging readers to recognize and embrace their emotions. She emphasizes that struggling is normal and highlights the importance of seeking support. The book promotes the message that healing takes time and it's okay to ask for help.

This book is hitting a homerun when talking about emotional vocabulary. This literacy component would promote a conversation in the classroom about these new and big vocabulary words that are about big and heavy emotions. The students would not only be taught about these new words and keep building their vocab bank, but it also allows a space for the students to see that any emotion is valid for any person, especially these big emotions that people don't always share.

Olive's Ocean

roseabigale5 — 2024-10-31 00:30:54 UTC

"Olive's Ocean" follows Martha, a young girl who grapples with the loss of a classmate, Olive, whose journal entry prompts her to reflect on life, friendship, and her own identity during a summer at the beach. Through her experiences, Martha learns valuable lessons about connection and the importance of embracing the moments that shape her. Olive's Ocean was awarded the Newbery Honor Award in 2004. This novel will support the literacy component: character development. This can be done through the class discussing and understanding the protagonist and analyzing the character's emotions and relationships with the other characters.