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Set of 20 worksheets each showing a different emotion. For each worksheet, the child should draw on the features to a face and describe when they felt that emotion and what they were thinking about and how their body reacted. The set has 10 girl version worksheets and 10 boy versions.
Why do you need this?
These worksheets help children develop emotional awareness by identifying and articulating their feelings. Understanding emotions is crucial for social and emotional development. By exploring what triggers different emotions and how their body reacts, children can learn to recognize early signs of emotional distress and develop strategies for regulating their emotions.
Reflecting on their own emotions can help children develop empathy for others. Understanding their own feelings may make it easier for them to relate to and empathize with the emotions of their peers.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets could be used in a variety of ways:
· Teachers can incorporate these worksheets into morning meetings or circle time discussions to start the day with a focus on emotions and well-being.
· During PSHE to teach students about emotions and emotional regulation. Teachers can lead discussions about how emotions impact our thoughts, behaviors, and physical sensations, promoting self-awareness.
· Small group work where the children discuss and reflect on different emotions together.
· During counselling sessions to support children in exploring and processing their emotions.
· As part of conflict resolution for children to reflect on their emotions during conflicts and brainstorm positive solutions.
What’s included?
10 Girl version worksheets and 10 boy versions. Emotions included are:
· Happy
· Sad
· Worried
· Angry
· Frustrated
· Annoyed
· Scared
· Embarrassed
· Excited
· Disappointed
26 worksheets in which children can practice letter recognition and handwriting. One worksheet for each letter of the alphabet with each showing a picture to color that begins with that letter, letters to trace and handwriting lines to write for themselves and also the letter shown using a variety of different fonts to pick out and find the correct ones. All worksheets show both capital and lower case letters.
Why do you need this?
Learning to identify and form letters is the basis for reading and writing readiness. This set of 26 worksheets provides engaging practice recognising, tracing, and writing each letter of the alphabet through varied activities. With visual identification, tactile tracing, and writing practice per page, this resource builds critical pre-literacy skills. Seeing, saying, tracing and writing the same letter in multiple modes cements sensory-motor skills and shape knowledge.
How and when might you use this?
Each sheet spotlights a letter focusing on capital and lowercase recognition. Students first locate that letter among various fonts, reinforcing shape and sound connections. They color a picture representing the letter’s sound to boost phonetic awareness. Tracing uppercase and lowercase forms with a finger teaches proper stroke technique. Finally, blank practice lines allow children to write the letter from memory.
Used for individual practice or small groups, these materials provide developmentally appropriate handwriting preparation.
What’s included?
26 PDF worksheets
4 worksheets in which children need to use the picture and the first part of the word to work out and write what the final sound in the word would be. Simple 3 and 4 letter words.
Why do you need this?
Isolating ending sounds builds phonemic awareness, a key early reading skill. These worksheets give students practice identifying final sounds in simple words through fun fill-in-the-blank activities.
Filling in missing sounds reinforces sounding out abilities critical for spelling and reading. Recognizing final phonemes aids rhyming and phonics skills too. These worksheets allow assessment of skill progression with CVC and CCVC words.
How and when might you use this?
Each page displays 10 illustrated words with the final letters missing. Using the picture and initial sounds as clues, children must determine and write in the last letter to complete the terms. For example, seeing a picture of a p-i- _ would cue writing in “g” to spell “pig”.
Parents and teachers can incorporate the pages into lessons or independent practice.
What’s included?
4 PDF worksheets
5 worksheets, one for each vowel sound (a, e, i, o, u). The worksheets contain a large letter showing the vowel sound and then lots of pictures, children need to circle the pictures that have the correct corresponding vowel sound in the middle of the word.
Why do you need this?
Understanding short vowel sounds is fundamental to strong literacy skills, it lays the foundation for their early literacy skills and paves the way for successful reading and spelling. The ability to recognise and differentiate between short vowel sounds helps children sound out words, enabling them to read new and unfamiliar words with accuracy.
How and when might you use this?
These five worksheets immerse students in focused short vowel recognition using visuals and interactive searching tasks. Isolating each sound, a, e, i, o and u, through pictures and circling deepens early literacy abilities.
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations or literacy centers
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
5 PDF worksheets
6 worksheets in which children need to circle the picture that begins with a given letter.
Why do you need this?
Recognising beginning sounds lays the groundwork for reading skills. These worksheets give students practice isolating and identifying initial phonemes through interactive activities.
Connecting sounds to letters and pictures reinforces phonetic awareness. With pictures of things like food, animals, and vehicles, children apply knowledge to familiar vocabulary.
How and when might you use this?
Each box focuses on a target starting sound, with a bold letter at the top for reference. Students look at 4 different illustrations and circle any pictures that start with that letter’s sound. For example, when the target is “B”, learners will circle the banana. This simple yet effective exercise serves as a foundational step in phonics instruction.
Use them for individual practice or small group phonics instruction.
What’s included?
6 PDF worksheets
4 worksheets in which children need to look at a picture and then write in the missing beginning sound from the word.
Why do you need this?
Recognising beginning sounds lays the groundwork for reading skills. These worksheets give students practice isolating and identifying initial phonemes through interactive activities.
Connecting sounds to letters and pictures reinforces phonetic awareness. With pictures of things like food, animals, and vehicles, children apply knowledge to familiar vocabulary.
How and when might you use this?
Each worksheet contains 10 pictures with the corresponding word next to it however each word has the beginning sound missing. Students must decipher the beginning sound by saying the word out loud and then write the missing sound on the line.
What’s Included?
4 PDF worksheets
6 worksheets for children to practice blending and reading CVC words with words broken down into each individual sound and sentences broken down into each word.
Why do you need this?
Breaking down words into individual sounds helps children understand phonics principles and the relationship between letters and sounds. This approach supports early reading development by teaching children to decode words systematically. Breaking words into individual sounds helps develop phonemic awareness, which is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. This foundational skill is crucial for successful reading and spelling.
Worksheets with words and sentences broken down into individual sounds provide opportunities for students to practice blending sounds together to form words. This skill is essential for fluent reading and helps children become more confident readers.
How and when might you use this?
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways:
· During small group phonics sessions
· Independent work stations or literacy centers
· Homework practice
· Guided reading groups
· Morning work
· Reading interventions for children who need additional support
· Whole class instruction
What’s included?
6 PDF worksheets
6 worksheets with a short passage to read containing simple CVC words and then a set of questions to answer about the passage to show understanding.
Why do you need this?
Emerging readers need practice moving from decoding words to comprehending passages. These worksheets use simple stories and comprehension questions to build important literacy foundations. Featuring short paragraphs with CVC vocabulary and matching exercises, these materials help pave the way for reading proficiency.
How and when might you use this?
Each page includes a short narrative using basic sight words and repetitive consonant-vowel-consonant terms. This allows young readers to focus on making meaning from the passage, rather than struggling through complex words. After reading, students answer reading comprehension questions relating to story details and events.
Each comprehension has 3 levels of questions - one easy multiple choice question with pictures, one where children take information directly from the text and one where they have to use inference to work out the answer. The vocabulary aligns with early phonics lessons to reinforce letter-sound relationships too. Parents and teachers can track progress across the repetitive activities.
What’s included?
6 PDF worksheets
5 worksheets in which children need to look at a picture and then work out what the beginning sound in the word would be, they then find and color that letter.
Why do you need this?
Recognising beginning sounds lays the groundwork for reading skills. These worksheets give students practice isolating and identifying initial phonemes through interactive activities.
Connecting sounds to letters and pictures reinforces phonetic awareness. With pictures of things like food, animals, and vehicles, children apply knowledge to familiar vocabulary.
How and when might you use this?
Students will look at each picture, identify what the object is, and determine the first letter that makes the beginning sound of the word. They will then locate that letter among the letters listed and color it in. These worksheets can be used individually or in small groups as a fun way to practice phonics skills. The PDF worksheets work well for whole class instruction, independent practice, homework, or morning work. This resource provides a multisensory approach to build phonics skills using visual, auditory, and fine motor practice tracing and coloring the beginning letter.
What’s included?
5 PDF worksheets
5 worksheets in which children need to look at a picture and then work out what the final sound in the word would be, they then find and colour that letter.
Why do you need this?
These worksheets help reinforce phonics skills by focusing on identifying and recognising the final sound in words. This supports students in understanding the relationship between letters and sounds. By associating final sounds with corresponding letters, students strengthen their understanding of letter-sound relationships. This knowledge is fundamental for decoding and encoding words in reading and writing.
Engaging in activities where students analyse the final sound in words enhances their phonemic awareness—the ability to identify and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words. This foundational skill is essential for reading and spelling.
How and when might you use this?
Students view images, say each word aloud, isolate the last sound they hear, and identify and colour in the letter that matches. These worksheets can be used independently, in small groups, or whole class to allow struggling and advanced readers to practice this critical early reading skill. As students complete these final sound worksheets, they’ll develop greater phonemic awareness that will transfer when encoding and decoding unfamiliar words.
What’s included?
5 PDF worksheets
Worksheet in which children think about the things that kind hands do and do not do.
Why do you need this?
The worksheet helps reinforce the concept of kindness and appropriate behaviour by encouraging children to reflect on actions that demonstrate kindness and respect towards others.
The worksheet provides a platform for discussing and understanding the importance of treating others with care and consideration. It encourages children to think about how their behaviour affects their peers and encourages them to act with empathy and compassion.
How and when might you use this?
This could be used in a variety of ways:
· Individual or small group work where children can discuss and brainstorm examples of kind and unkind actions towards others.
· During early morning work to start the day by reflecting on kindness and respect and the importance of treating others with care.
· During PSHE lessons focused on kindness.
· As conflict resolution to remind children of the importance of using kind hands and resolving conflict peacefully.
· As a behaviour management strategy to reinforce positive behavior. Discuss the expectations for kind hands and provide opportunities for students to practice and demonstrate these behaviors throughout the day.
Set of 12 word and picture flash cards showing the months of the year.
Why do you need this?
Flashcards help students learn the sequence and order of the months of the year. Teachers can use the flashcards to engage students in activities where they arrange the months in chronological order or identify which month comes before or after a given month.
Flashcards serve as visual aids to support students’ understanding of abstract concepts like time and sequence. The visual representation of the months helps reinforce learning and provides a reference point for students during calendar activities.
How and when might you use this?
Teachers can use these cards for small group lessons, maths centers, and vocabulary reinforcement. They can also be used for display.
What is included?
12 word and picture flash cards showing each of the months of the year.
Thermometer showing increasing levels of anger and then with a space to think about what things make them feel that angry and how they can calm themselves down at different levels of anger.
Why do you need this?
The Anger Thermometer worksheet helps children become more aware of the intensity of their anger by categorising it on a scale from calm to furious. This self-awareness is crucial for developing emotional intelligence and understanding the range of emotions they experience. By writing examples of when they have felt each level of anger, children can identify specific triggers or situations that lead to different levels of anger. This understanding allows them to anticipate and manage their responses more effectively in the future.
How and when might you use this?
This worksheet could be used in a variety of ways:
· In lessons on social-emotional learning to help students identify and understand the different levels of their anger and practice coping strategies.
· Following a conflict or behavioural incident a tool for self-reflection to identify their anger level and reflect on how they managed their emotions.
· During counselling sessions to support students in exploring their anger triggers and developing personalized coping strategies.
· As 1:1 support for a child struggling with anger management.
· During circle time discussions focused on emotions and self-regulation.
What’s included?
The worksheet features a colour-coded thermometer bar ranging from “I’m calm” in green up to “I’m furious!” in red. Five stages of anger are delineated including calm, annoyed, frustrated, angry, and furious. At each level, students give examples of things that would trigger those feelings for them. Next, children self-strategise the best ways they can calm down at each anger level such as take deep breaths, squeeze a stress ball, walk away or tell the teacher.
Worksheet for children to think about their responses to anger including what their anger triggers are, how their body physically responds, what they think when they are angry and what other emotions they feel during that time besides anger.
Why do you need this?
Writing down their responses to anger helps children become more aware of their emotions, triggers, and reactions. This self-awareness is essential for developing emotional intelligence and understanding how their thoughts and feelings influence their behavior. These insights empower children with the tools and skills necessary to effectively manage their anger and navigate challenging emotions.
How and when might you use this?
This worksheet could be used in a variety of ways:
· In PSHE lessons that focus on understanding and managing their emotions.
· Following a conflict or behavioural incident as a way for a child to reflect and as a tool for self-reflection.
· During counselling sessions to support students in developing coping strategies for managing anger.
· As 1:1 support for a child struggling with anger management.
· This worksheet could be used proactively with students as a preventative measure to promote self-awareness and emotional regulation.
What’s included?
This worksheet includes 4 sections in which children can either write or draw their answers under the titles ‘trigger’, ‘my body’, ‘my thoughts’ and ‘my emotions’.
Cut and stick worksheet showing different things that people might do when feeling angry. Children to sort the pictures into groups of things they should do when angry and things they should not.
Why do you need this?
Managing anger appropriately is a vital skill for children to develop. This interactive cut and stick activity creatively builds positive behavior choices using engaging picture sorting.
How and when might you use this?
The worksheet features 10 pictures of scenarios showing different reactions when feeling angry, like hitting, screaming, talking to a trusted adult, hurting others, deep breathing etc. Children should look at each picture, discussing if the behaviors shown are right or wrong ways to deal with anger. Children then cut out the pictures and sort them under the columns “I should" or “I should not” according to their own reasoning. Finally, students glue their sorted cards under the correct column, creating a handy visual reference guide demonstrating constructive vs destructive anger reactions.
Worksheet for children to think about calming strategies that are helpful to use while feeling angry as well as thinking about things that are not helpful to do whilst angry.
Why do you need this?
Anger is a common emotion, but how we express it makes all the difference. This useful worksheet helps children process feelings of anger and frustration in healthy ways. By identifying positive and negative behaviors related to anger, children learn to manage anger and avoid escalating situations.
How and when might you use this?
This worksheet is flexible in its design so that it can be easily adapted across ages and abilities. Counselors could also utilise the worksheet for sessions focused on identification of emotions and anger management. It could also be used by parents as a way to address a child’s emotional outbursts at home.
What’s included?
This worksheet features a simple, layout with designated sections to list “Anger Dos” and “Anger Don’ts." Under Dos, children can be prompted to write constructive, calming strategies like “take deep breaths” and “talk to a friend”. The Don’ts section is for recognising unhealthy responses like “yelling” or “throwing things.” This worksheet can be differentiated by the children using sentences, words or pictures.
Bingo game to support children in using different calming strategies to help with anger. Each time they use a different strategy they can mark it off on the board and try to get 3 in a row. There are different versions for children to either write down their own preferred strategies or use the given ones.
Why do you need this?
Managing anger can be challenging for children. This bingo game provides a unique and engaging approach for teaching calming strategies to help children handle frustrating emotions.
How and when might you use this?
Anger Bingo transforms a classic game into a tool for building emotional intelligence. It’s an excellent way to introduce anger management skills or reinforce concepts learned. By completing the boards children can discover new coping methods tailored to their needs. This versatile resource works for individual and group settings with children of varying ages and abilities.
What’s included?
The set includes 3 different bingo boards each with 9 squares. Each square features a different calming technique like deep breathing, listening to music or going to a safe space. Children can use the blank board to fill in their own ideas or user the suggested strategies.
Scale for children to visually express how angry they are feeling.
Why do you need this?
Acknowledging and talking about anger can be a helpful way for children to deal with this emotion. Talking about their feelings in a safe environment can help children feel better about their anger and can also help them to figure out how to deal with it in a healthy way. This can also be a good way to instigate discussions about healthy coping strategies for managing anger.
How and when might you use this?
This anger meter can either be displayed on the wall for children to go to when they feel they need to or to be directed to by an adult or it can be laminated for them to have their own individual copy with them at their desk to pick up and use whenever it is needed.
What’s included?
Included are 2 different versions of the meter, one with children’s emotion faces and one with emoji faces. Print and laminate and then use a split pin to make it work.
Lesson package about anger, what makes us angry, how anger makes us feel inside and how our bodies react physically and a variety of calming strategies to use when angry.
Why do you need this?
Teaching children about anger helps them develop self-awareness and emotional regulation skills. By understanding their emotions better, students can learn to recognise when they are becoming angry and employ appropriate strategies to manage their feelings. Providing a structured lesson on anger helps create a safe and supportive classroom environment where students feel comfortable discussing and expressing their emotions. This openness encourages students to seek help when needed and reduces the likelihood of disruptive behaviour stemming from unaddressed anger.
How and when might you use this?
Due to the content of this lesson package it can be quite flexible in the range of ages it can be used with. A teacher might use a lesson about anger at various points throughout the school year, depending on the needs of their students and the classroom dynamics.
What’s included?
· Lesson planning
· Teaching slides that include how anger feels in the body, the rules of anger and calming strategies
· Worksheet about the phases of anger
· Calming strategies display posters
Reward chart for use by parents having difficulty getting their child into a regular bedtime routine.
Why do you need this?
A reward chart can help parents establish a consistent bedtime routine for their child. By setting clear expectations and providing incentives for following the routine, parents can encourage their child to develop healthy sleep habits. A bedtime reward chart allows parents to reinforce positive bedtime behaviours and rewarding these behaviours, parents can motivate their child to cooperate and participate in the bedtime routine without resistance.
What’s included?
The set includes a reward chart that shows ‘put on pyjamas’, ‘brush teeth’, ‘go to sleep on my own’ and ‘stay in my bed all night’. Then there are a set of stars that can be laminated and velcroed on when earned. Then there are a variety of rewards that children can work towards.