Personal & Social Development·Self-Awareness·meta
Naming Your Feelings
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
Suggested ages 5–6
Evidence of understanding
- emotional literacy research
- Fostering Emotional Literacy in Young Children (HeadStart.gov)
- emotion vocabulary development 4-11 years (PMC)
Assessment prompt
When Naming Your Feelings seems upset, excited, or frustrated, can they stop and tell you what emotion they're feeling — even if they can't fully explain why?
Standards alignment
No external standards are linked to this topic.