Triggers and Causes of Feelings
Understand that feelings have causes — something happens (a trigger) and that makes us feel a certain way — and begin to identify what triggers their own emotions
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Link a fictional character's stated emotion to an event without claiming every feeling has one obvious cause.
Link a fictional character's stated emotion to an event without claiming every feeling has one obvious cause.
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- Describe a trigger for at least three different emotions from their own experience
- Complete 'I felt ___ because ___' sentences accurately
- Identify what made a character in a story feel a particular way
“When your child gets upset about something at school, can they explain to you what happened that made them feel that way?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Personal & Social Development
- Domain
- Emotional Literacy
- Age range
- Ages 5–7
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