Matching Emotions With Facial Expressions Worksheet
- Year groups
- Years 1–3
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Special Resources
- Topic
- Emotions Worksheets, Emotions and Facial Expressions
- Resource types
- Worksheets, Worksheets & Printables
- Preparation
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About this resource
This emotions matching worksheet is perfect to help first and second grade students who are beginning to learn emotions with facial expressions. Use as a morning meeting activity, individual session dive in, or even with a Push-In lesson! This matching activity uses a word bank that students can match each emotion to the character they feel is best portraying that emotion. Some of the emotions are trickier to identify, so an answer key is included! Students can also reflect when done on why they chose the specific character for the emotion!
BONUS
Using this resource in an activity binder for the student I have found to be super helpful! Students love to engage in fun matching activities, and while they engage, they get to continue their growth! I often will add this worksheet to a busy work binder that students can use during morning meeting or when throughout the day when they have finished other lessons and have some extra time. This also is a great addition to any emotions based lesson!
Included in this product
One Emotions Matching Worksheet
Answer Key
Ideas for Use:
⭐Individual Lessons
⭐Push-In Lessons
⭐Group Lessons
⭐SEL Morning Meetings
⭐Busy Binders
⭐Addition to Emotions Packet
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In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Recognise the facial expression that goes with each of eight named emotions.
Connect emotion vocabulary (including less common words like disappointed and confused) to visual cues.
Self-check emotion matches against the completed solutions version.
Teaching tips
Have students name a time they felt one of the eight emotions after matching it, turning the sheet into a talking prompt.
Use the completed solutions version for independent self-checking so the sheet can run as a quiet station or busy-binder task.
Pair the trickier faces - disappointed, worried, and confused read similarly - and discuss what distinguishes them before students draw their lines.
Skills covered
Emotion recognition - students match eight emotion words to the character faces expressing them.
Feelings vocabulary - the sheet uses a wider emotional range than happy/sad, including disappointed, confused, and worried.
Self-monitoring - the 'see how many you can get correct' framing and the numbered solutions version let students check their own work.
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Which emotions does the matching page cover?
Eight: sadness, happiness, disappointed, worried, scared, confused, anger, and tired - a deliberately wider range than the basic happy/sad set, so students practise reading subtler expressions.
How can students check their own matches?
A completed version of the same page numbers each emotion and marks which face it belongs to, so a student, partner, or helper can verify all eight pairings without teacher input.
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Core concepts
Emotion recognition
Facial expressions
Feelings vocabulary
Social-emotional learning
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