Looking for a simple way to work little and big emotions for morning emotion check in time? Add this to your emotional regulation social stories toolkit! This simple digital and print lesson helps preschool and special education learners gain understanding emotions in a fun and engaging way!

This social story is titled “I Feel Like…” and uses similes to teach about emotions. “Sometimes I feel like rain, gray and cold and dreary. This is when I’m feeling SAD!” “Sometimes I feel like I want to hide in my shell like a turtle. This is when I’m feeling SHY!” Uses Boardmaker™ sentence stems with Core Words.

Why this?
✔️ FUN way to teach emotions
✔️ Targets diverse learners with multiple formats
✔️ Builds crucial self-regulation skills for independence
✔️ Digital, printable, and customizable for various needs
✔️ Encourages home practice for stronger outcomes
✔️ Ready-to-use materials save teachers planning time

Includes:
    — Interactive Boom Cards™, Google Slides™ activities
    — Printable story in color and black-and-white, plus print activities
    — Audio Support: Ideal for early learners and non-readers

Perfect for:
    — Special educators & ABA therapists
    — Speech-language pathologists
    — Parents supporting language development 

➕ WHAT’S INCLUDED? 50-page PDF 

• Digital links to Boom™ Cards, Google™ Slides activity, and Easel™ activity plus YouTube™ automatic version of story
• Print book (16 pages) in color, black-and-white, AND in a 1/4-page size for students to color and take home! (40 pages)
• Worksheets & Visuals (9 pages): 
  • How do you feel? Emotions plus the similes used in the story
  • Fill in the simile (e.g., “Happy feels like…” and learner adds “sun” from the Boardmaker™ symbols provided)
  • Feelings colors; emotions on a rainbow of colors from mad (red) to tired (purple); helps students visualize emotional states
  • Communication symbols; more Boardmaker symbols that can be printed and used any which way!

✉ Please contact me via email audra@abainschool.com if you have a question about this resource or experience a problem.

For Boom™ products

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For Google™ Drive products

► You will need Google Drive in order to access this resource. Your students will also need Google accounts so they can access the activity if you are assigning to them.
► You must be logged into your account when you download the file. When you click the link, you will get a prompt, “Would you like to make a copy of….” Click Make a copy, and it will copy to your Drive.
► If your school district has Google access blocked, you can choose to have the resource added to a personal Google account and then share it with your school account.

⚠️️IMPORTANT  :   The purchase of this resource gives the buyer permission to download and copy for single classroom or family use only. Electronic distribution is also limited to single use. Copying for other parents, teachers, school-wide use, or for school systems is only allowed with the purchase of additional licenses. Contact me at audra@abainschool.com for additional licenses at a discounted rate. Thank you for respecting my work.

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