Personal & Social Development Self-Awareness Meta 5–6 yrs

Naming Your Feelings

为你的情绪命名

Description

Notice what you are feeling and put a name to it — being able to label an emotion is the first step to understanding and managing it

Mastery Evidence
  • emotional literacy research
  • Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children (HeadStart.gov)
  • emotion vocabulary development 4-11 years (PMC)
Assessment Prompt

When your child seems upset, excited, or frustrated, can they stop and tell you what emotion they're feeling — even if they can't fully explain why?