Nice and Not Nice emotion symbols
The ‘in-the-moment-labelling’ approach in practice

During puppet play, this ASN teacher builds on her pupil’s emerging knowledge of the emotion words happy and sad using the ‘in-the-moment’ labelling approach using a symbol keyring of emotion words. By labelling the emotions happy or sad using a spoken word and a symbol while the child is actually experiencing an emotion himself or […]
‘Model in Mind’ poster
Symbol Story Board Development for Foundation Language

This is a practice article written some time ago by one of our practice team and Early Years trainer Morag Dickie. We don’t have the full set of boards as a resource to share unfortunately, and the photo of them that we have isn’t the best quality – sorry, but hopefully you’ll find value in the […]
Full PCS (Boardmaker) Symbol Set for all Foundation Words
The Angry Song by Fischy Music

In this practice example we make use of the symbol movie for ‘The Angry Song’ by Fischy Music and Sticky Kids as a literacy stimulus for exploring the emotion of anger with children in the Nursery & Lower Primary stage. To use with a nursery group Watch the video and identify EW foundation words in the […]
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 […]
Using Symbols to Support Word Learning – Guide for Early (Foundation) Level
Words & Pictures Chat Boards / Slides for Early Level
Books, Stories, Film Clips and other resources for Multi-emotion discussions

Here’s a starter list of recommendations and suggestions for popular books and other resources that are useful for Emotion Works discussions where multiple emotions feature within the same stimulus. If you want to source your own, what you’re looking for is a book, story, film clip or another stimulus that features a variety of emotion […]