Gratitude and Empathy Visual Journaling

Have you been looking for a SEL resource that events something new with your young students? Have you noticed that old worksheets do nothing to measure a child's emotional intelligence and only offer a chance to measure his literacy skills?

Help your students discover their emotional world with the help of the Gratitude and Empathy Visual Journal, which is based in research and created especially for preschoolers and children in the first two grades. This unique program helps children get around the first difficulties that they experience during their literacy acquisition by focusing on what they do best - making sense of their surroundings through drawings.

Following the principles of the Visual-Affective Mapping technology, the low-text high-art worksheets that this program offers allow children to safely explore complicated emotional states such as empathy, gratitude, perspectives, and compassion. Instead of trying to put their feeling into words, the students are guided to express their emotions through drawings.

This is not simply an art project; this is a good pedagogical device suitable for teachers, social workers, and parents.

The contents of the package include:

Educator's guide (10 pages): This is a full introduction into psychological basis and methodology that includes "Visual Epistemology of Emotion", examples in case studies, and some educator's insights on what was done.

7 Student Workbooks (15 pages): These print-ready student workbooks are designed for making work more engaging while presenting simple prompts:

Emotion Detective (Identifying Emotions)

My Gratitude Backpack (Intangible Gratitude)

Looking Through Another's Window (Perspective-Taking)

"Ouch to Ahh" First Aid Kit (Compassion)

Friendship Recipe (Prosocial Skills)

Weather Report of My Heart (Emotional Granularity)

Magic Magnifying Glass (Mindful Gratitude)

Visuals & Teacher Resources (8 pages):

CASEL Framework Map: For learners to see how this resource corresponds with the main competencies of SEL.

Comprehensive Interpretative Answer Key: Outstanding material that allows to interpret student figures easily.

Detailed Instruction Manual: Guide for using E.A.S.E. protocol.

Trauma-Informed Exercise Guide: Advice on making environment emotionally comfortable and reacting to delicate cases.

Motor Deficit Strategies: Useful advice on making sure every child can work on this task.

Help your kids have the basic empathy and true gratitude. Download this impactful SEL resource now!

KEYWORDS: Social Emotional Learning, SEL, Empathy, Gratitude, Visual Journaling, Drawing Prompts, K-2, Kindergarten, First Grade, Second Grade, CASEL, Character Education, Mindfulness, School Counseling, Trauma-Informed, No-Prep, Printable Worksheets, Homeschool, Emotional Intelligence.

Several Reasons Why It Is Popular Among Parents/Schools:

All Learners Welcome: The program makes it easy for everyone including pre-readers, struggling readers and even people with dyslexia or dysgraphia to take part in the learning process and share their understanding of emotions.

Supported by Research and Designed to Work: The program is more than just a group of prompts based on drawing, it has been designed according to the principles of child psychology, CASEL, and other educational programs that follow a clear teaching methodology.

Allows to Understand Children Better: Since it is based on drawing, it is able to give teachers and parents unique insights into the feelings and emotions of children which cannot be seized through their academic written answers.

Complete and immediately available: It is a full program that already covers the areas of target audiences and has available teachers’ guides, answer keys, ideas about dealing with trauma and differentiation.

Encourages More Intensive Understanding: The program contains not only self-awareness but many useful tools that allow improving kindness and collaboration in the class.

Classes for the Target Learners:

Based on a thorough examination of the language, messages, and clear information presented in the PDF, the identified target groups are as follows:

Primary Target Group: Students in Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd Grades (ages 5-8 years). The PDF continuously emphasizes K-2 levels of learners, as well as uses "low-text" format, which perfectly suits beginner readers.

Secondary Target Group: This is also a great resource for Special Education pupils, as well as students in the elementary school setting in connection with diagnosis of emotional problems.

Copyright and Terms of Use:

Syed Hammad Rizvi holds the copyright for this book. This book can be used only for personal use in a single classroom. You are not allowed to modify, distribute or sell this material. Thus, you cannot upload it to the Internet where it can be available for everyone.

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