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Lesson Plan: Character Emotions (3/8)

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Applying What You Have Learned

On the following pages are lesson plans that can be used to support the development of emotional intelligence in your program planning. The lesson plans are intended to be an optional resource that you may adapt for use in your classroom. The worksheets at the bottom of each lesson plan are part of the required coursework (not optional).

Please read each lesson plan carefully and then answer the question at the bottom of the page.

Character Emotions

Age Group:

Toddlers
Preschool

Objectives:

Children will identify emotions in others

CDA Competency Standard:
II.6.4a
Candidate’s interactions encourage children’s communication skills
a) Promotes children’s language development through her/his verbal and non-verbal communications

Materials:

A favorite children’s book
Post-it notes
Marker

Procedure:

Read a classroom favorite book to your class. On each page (or as many as possible) challenge children to identify emotions in the characters in the book.
Write the name of the emotion on the post-it and put it in the book.
When you read the book next time, point out and discuss those identified emotions and ask children to act them out!

Assessment:

Observe and record children’s ability to understand and identify the emotions of the characters.

This is assignment 3 of 8.

Worksheet

Emotional Intelligence - Page 11 (3/8)

Lesson Plan: Character Emotions

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1. Why should you use a book that is familiar to children for this activity?

It is often easier to identify emotions in characters that children are familiar with. The children already know the emotions because the teacher has previously taught it to them.It is less challenging to retell story elements and describe characters.

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1. Why should you use a book that is familiar to children for this activity?

It is often easier to identify emotions in characters that children are familiar with.

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1. Why should you use a book that is familiar to children for this activity?

The Correct response is: It is often easier to identify emotions in characters that children are familiar with.

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1. Course Agenda
2. Emotional vs Cognitive
3. Emotional Intelligence Important?
4. Behavior
5. EQ versus IQ (1/8)
6. Social Interactions

7. Education
8. Supporting Emotional Intelligence
9. Literature
10. Identifying Emotions (2/8)
11. Character Emotions (3/8)
12. Tell me, Show me! (4/8)

13. Kindness Challenge (5/8)
14. Making Faces (6/8)
15. Guess That Emotion (7/8)
16. End of Course Quiz (8/8)
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Lesson Plan: ​Character Emotions (3/8)

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Character Emotions

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Lesson Plan: Character Emotions (3/8)