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Naming Your Feelings

META
Personal & Social Development›Self-Awareness|Ages 5—6|ID: mt_69hFD2NgGe

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 [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?”

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  • Vocabulary: self hard

    Noticing and naming feelings requires the basic vocabulary of self-awareness and reflection

  • Feeling of not understanding soft

    Naming what you are feeling is emotional comprehension monitoring — the universal habit of noticing what's happening inside applied to emotional experience

    • Asking for Help hard

      Noticing confusion and acting on it requires already knowing that asking for help is a valid response to being stuck

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