Identifying Feelings and Emotions Social Situations Worksheets + BOOM CARDS

Identifying the EMOTIONS of others and knowing how to RESPOND is a complex pragmatic language skill that can be difficult to teach. This resource provides relevant and real-world situations for your students to practice these social skills.

This activity will help your students infer the emotions of others using their body language, facial expressions, and situational context. Unlike most other feelings and emotions resources, this one goes the next step by prompting students to identify what they could say in each social situation.

For each of the 34 scenarios, there's a short written description and a picture of a person showing an emotion. In each one, students practice...

✅ Reading the EMOTION of someone

✅ Making an INFERENCE about why they might feel that way

✅ RESPONDING to the person while considering how they're feeling

✅ Making a PERSONAL CONNECTION by identifying a time they felt similarly

Take your students beyond identifying simple feelings (happy, sad, and mad) and into more complex emotions (such as jealous, proud, and confused) when targeting social language. This resource makes it easy to help your students take the perspective of others and respond to others' emotions.

Both DIGITAL + PRINTABLE versions are included! You'll get 3 VERSIONS so you can use this resource in any setting.

1. Two PDF versions, including both a color and black/white version for easy printing of the worksheets.
2. A BOOM CARDS deck with fillable text boxes. Check out the FREE playable preview!
3. A TpT Easel Activity

TWO LEVELS of practice in this resource allow you to DIFFERENTIATE your therapy for a variety of students.

• Level 1 contains 20 scenarios that are geared toward elementary and middle school students,
• Level 2 has 14 scenarios designed for high school students.

Crossover between the two levels may be appropriate for some students, as the topics in the high school section are not too mature for younger students.

⭐BUNDLE & SAVE on more social language activities⭐

This resource helps you integrate several aspects of social language into one functional and relevant activity. With various formats included, you'll use it for years to come!

SLPs and teachers like you have said....

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Barbara T. says, "This resource is great!! It targets inferencing, empathy, emotions, body language, comprehension, retell, speech production, etc...It is great for in person, but was so easy to use in Google Meets. Great resource for upper elementary and middle schoolers. The social situations are so relevant. Many of my students commented/made connections!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Grace B. says, "The pictures and visuals used in this resource are very relatable to students. I like that it focuses on body language as well as other pragmatic skills. I've been able to use this activity with in-person and distance learning."

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