Emotions Self Regulation Sort and Match Coping Skills & Strategies Activity SEL

Are your students struggling with their emotions and having difficulty choosing coping strategies to regulate their bodies? Are they off-task, disruptive, distracted, or impulsive?  Do you need ideas to help manage these behaviors?  In just a few minutes a day, you and your students can be more regulated and focused with a better understanding of how emotions affect our daily lives. Check out this social and emotional learning skills activity with visuals to improve your student's emotional intelligence. Includes 17 emotions and 20 strategies/coping skills. Integrate social and emotional learning skills into your day and teach your students effective self-regulation strategies, coping skills, and stress management with these activities.

Great for occupational therapy activities, school counseling sessions, or use as a visual in a calming corner to support classroom management. Activities can be completed by cut and paste, with laminated templates and images or digitally through Easel Activities. You can also have students make it into an interactive book to use when they need it.

All behaviors have a reason and students will do well when they can. Use self-regulation social-emotional learning activities to help students recognize and communicate their emotions and teach different strategies for management.

Students use the visual pictures to identify their emotions, choose strategies to maintain or change that emotion or feeling, as well as, what they might be able to do when experiencing that feeling or emotion.

Transform your classroom or home into a place to improve emotional intelligence with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) activities. Use engaging activities, lessons, and worksheets to create a positive learning space, enhance emotional awareness, and improve conflict resolution skills. Ideal for educators, therapists, counselors, and parents these visuals are designed for various learning styles and abilities.

When to Use:

• Occupational Therapy: Enhance self-regulation and coping skills.
• School Counseling: Foster emotional intelligence and behavior management.
• Speech Therapy: Support communication skills and behavioral regulation.
• Classroom Management: Create a positive learning space such as a calming corner and improve conflict resolution.

What's Included: Check out the preview to see all that is included.

• Materials for an Interactive adapted book to sort emotions and identify strategies.
• Emotion and coping strategy images. Color and BW
• Journal page for reflection.
• EASEL digital activity.
• Several styles of sorting pages.

What skills are students working on with this resource?

• Self-Regulation: Teach effective strategies for managing emotions.
• Coping Skills: Choose activities to regulate behaviors.
• Emotional Intelligence: Understand emotions' impact on daily lives.
• Communication: Express and communicate emotions effectively.

Key Features:

1. OT Tips for Co-Regulation: Lower anxiety and manage stress.
2. Versatility: Print, cut, and laminate for hands-on use.
3. EASEL Digital Activity: Updated version for virtual engagement.
4. Interactive Adapted Book: Simple emotion sorting for EI.
5. Visual Supports: Aid in identifying and managing emotions.
6. Differentiated Sorting Pages: Cater to diverse learning needs.
7. Journal Reflection Page: Encourage accountability.
8. Build Fine Motor Skills: Promote coloring for fine motor practice.

Download Now and Transform Learning! Empower students with self-regulation, social-emotional skills, and academic success. A valuable adjunct to existing curricula. Use this social-emotional learning product as an adjunct to any self-regulation, behavior or social-emotional curriculum (How Does Your Engine Run™, PBIS™, SEL™, ZONEs of regulation™...) for a way to review and master the material.

Note: This file is an independent product and is not affiliated with Think Social Publishing, Inc. or Leah Kuypers, author of The Zones of Regulation.

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About the author: As an occupational therapy assistant, I create resources to help students develop essential fine motor, visual perceptual, gross motor, and social-emotional skills, especially in today's challenging times. My goal is to support students in building the foundation they need for success in the classroom. Cindy@CreativeCOTA.com