Transitioning Through Big Feelings Part 2

Transitioning Through Big Feelings| Companion Activity Part 2 reinforces and expands the language, comprehension, and critical thinking skills introduced in the life skills video through more advanced, structured activities. Students describe emotions and coping-related pictures using “say it, see it, and describe it” prompts, generate narratives about experiencing and moving through big emotions, and answer opinion-based questions to strengthen expressive language skills. The resource also includes inferencing and prediction tasks related to recognizing body signals, identifying strong emotions, choosing calming strategies, and predicting how feelings may change, as well as multi-step verbal and written direction-following activities with modifiers to strengthen listening and reading comprehension. Additional activities target higher-level language skills, including analogies, multiple-meaning words, semantic relationships, grammar practice with pronouns, irregular past tense verbs, and irregular plural nouns, and figurative language such as idioms, metaphors, and similes. These engaging tasks deepen understanding, strengthen language development, and support emotional awareness, self-regulation, and the ability to move through big emotions using appropriate coping strategies.

Learning Objectives
  1. Describe big emotions and coping situations using complete, expanded sentences.
  2. Generate narratives about experiencing and moving through big emotions.
  3. Answer opinion questions about emotions and calming strategies.
  4. Make inferences and predictions about feelings and emotional responses.
  5. Follow two- and three-step verbal directions accurately.
  6. Follow three-step written directions with modifiers.
  7. Demonstrate understanding of analogies, multiple-meaning words, and semantic relationships.
  8. Use pronouns, irregular past tense verbs, and irregular plural nouns correctly.
  9. Interpret idioms, metaphors, and similes in context.
  10. Apply higher-level language skills to recognize, communicate, and move through big emotions.
Associated Life Skills Video
Associated Companion Activity

Transitioning Through Big Emotions