Word learning using ‘In-the-moment labelling’

In the early years the Emotion Works approach focuses on developing foundation language for the different cog concepts.In this practice article we focus in on the learning and teaching process involved. The ‘in-the-moment’ teaching process To help a young child learn a word they don’t yet know, we recommend an approach that involves naming an […]

Sadness Emotion Category – stimulus and activity ideas for cog conversations

To help you take a deeper dive into exploring the concept of Sadness with your learners using the Emotion Cogs, this article provides a range of Literacy Stimulus ideas that will be motivating to use with your class or group for cog conversations.We haven’t identified a particular level of learning or school stage for the […]

Happiness Emotion Category – stimulus and activity ideas for cog conversations

To help you take a deeper dive into exploring the concept of Happiness with your learners using the Emotion Cogs, this article provides a range of Literacy Stimulus ideas that will be motivating to use with your class or group for cog conversations. We haven’t identified a particular level of learning or school stage for […]

In your own words Cog Model activity

Using Symbols to Support Word Learning – Guide for Early (Foundation) Level

Words & Pictures Chat Boards / Slides for Early Level

Emotion Word Spotting using the ‘In my Heart’ book

from the Recovery Programme Competition Gallery Carleton Primary School, Glenrothes “Our Primary 2s at Carleton primary school have been looking at emotions through different texts including ‘In my Heart by Jo Witek’. They have really enjoyed using the cognifying glasses to help them identify the emotion words.”We always love seeing cognifying glasses being used to […]

7-cog Model and 7 cogs slideshow & poster resource

Cog links, Note-boards and Story-boards in practice

Here we show how the single cog card and cut outs, and the 4-, 5-, 6- and 7-part note-board and story-board tools can be used in variety of ways to unpack and compose emotional events and narrative. Some show tasks that are related to reading and comprehension tasks, and others for writing and composition. Can […]

Coggle Analysis – what it is and how to do it

The ‘Coggle Analysis’ planning tool has been around for a while so we’ve created this page to share some examples of how it looks and works in practice. We also want to be more explicit about what we mean by ‘Coggle Vision’ for those of you new to Emotion Works and the cogs. Read on […]

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