Words Convey Feelings – Anchor Chart Pair

A feelings-vocabulary anchor chart groups synonym clusters under seven emotion categories and pairs the completed chart with a matching fill-in-the-blank version.
Year levels
Foundation–Year 2
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Updated Sep 27, 2026

Subject
Vocabulary, Language Development, English
Topic
Reading Anchor Chart, Vocabulary
Resource types
Anchor Charts
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This resource is a set of 2 anchor charts teaching that words convey feelings. The first chart is complete. The second chart is fill in the blank. These charts work well on a bulletin board or inserted into students' interactive reading notebooks.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Recognise and use varied vocabulary for the same broad emotion (e.g., 'giggled,' 'joyful,' 'beamed' for happy)

  • Distinguish near-synonym feeling words such as 'shy,' 'bashfully,' and 'timidly,' or 'frustrated' and 'angry'

Teaching tips

  • Post the completed chart near the writing area so students can pull precise feeling words instead of defaulting to 'happy' or 'sad.'

  • Use the blank/cloze version as a quick vocabulary recall check or independent fill-in activity.

  • Pair with a character-emotion activity in a read-aloud, having students select the word cluster that best matches a character's reaction.

Skills covered

  • Emotion vocabulary building — students select precise synonyms (e.g., 'fumed' vs. 'yelled' vs. 'mad') for a broad feeling category.

  • Word recall — students fill in blanked feeling words on a cloze version of the same chart from memory.

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