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ESL: Pre-Reading Activity-Owning A Dog
In this ESL pre-reading worksheet, students match a set of 10 vocabulary words to their meaning, using a given drop down list. Worksheet is labeled as a pre-reading activity to "Owning a Dog," but no reference for the selection is given.
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Kids Helpline: Helping Kids Identify and Express Feelings
Learning to identify and express feelings in a positive way helps kids develop the skills they need to manage them effectively. Here are some tips on how to encourage your child to express their feelings.
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Elementary School Counseling: Identifying and Expressing Feelings
This site contains a collection of activities to teach students how to identify and express their feelings.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Express Yourself
Test your skill at reading the emotion expressed in a face in these two matching games.
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Kids Health: Adoption
When someone is adopted it isn't always easy for them to deal with the reasons that it happened. This article attempts to help those with similar issues cope with the thoughts and feelings that surround being adopted. Links to related...
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Kids Health: Dealing With Anger
What happens when you feel angry? Do you throw things? Yell? Stomp your feet? Anger is an emotion that we all feel, but we deal with it in different ways. If you would like some ideas on ways to handle your anger, or how to tell if...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pre K 12 Resources for New School Routines: All About Emotions: Pre K and K
These weekly activities are cross-curricular but emphasize Social-Emotional Learning, Math, and Literacy development. This week children will learn to label emotions and how they can express them in different ways.
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Kids Health: Going Back to School
Kids Health offers tips and words of encouragement for kids going back to school, especially those who are shy. Click on "Feelings" for lots of ideas on learning to deal with a variety of emotions and situations relating to school and...
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Kids Health: Dealing With Divorce
The reasons for two adults divorcing isn't always clear to their children. This article explains why parents sometimes divorce, how it might change their lives, and what they can do to make it easier for themselves. The article also...
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Kids Health: Dealing With Divorce
Dealing with divorce means ultimately accepting new changes that will affect almost all aspects of a child's life. Coping with these changes can be easier if the child understands how to deal with their emotions of frustration,...
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Kids Health: Delayed Puberty
The changes that an adolescent goes through can be intimidating or unexpected. What can be worse though is watching peers change as your body still appears like a child. This article confronts this feeling and provides support for those...
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Hospice Net
This site is dedicated to educating individuals how to help adolescents and children cope with difficult situations involving feelings of depression. These articles offer good advice for helping children in need.
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Center for Young Women's Health: Coping With Loss: A Guide for Teens
Losing someone close to you isn't easy. Anytime a familiar situation changes one must develop the ability to cope with what's been altered. This site looks at different types of loss and how to approach these difficult times. Additional...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Helping Young Children Express Themselves
We know that communication is central to the learning process. Communication can be specifically linked to the expanding skills of listening and speaking, as children connect to the reading and writing behaviors that characterize early...
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Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: Article: Coping With Frustration
This article from the Fred Rogers' Company discusses the importance of being able to cope with frustration in a healthy manner. This practice will help children develop healthy attitudes.
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Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Feelings
Young children experience a wide range of emotions that they might not be able to name yet. Help students explore emotions.
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Pbs News Hour: Rothko's Legacy
Transcript of NewsHour's Paul Solman interviewing the art historian and Rothko biographer, Dore Ashton. Provides insight into the life and work of abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. Interview dated August 5, 1998.
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Grief: Getting Over the Death of Someone Close to You
Getting over the loss of someone close to you if a difficult process. This site provides resources for adolescents who have recently experienced such a loss and helps to lead them through this process in the healthiest manner possible.
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Thought Co.: Nonverbal Communication Activities
It's important to be aware of nonverbal communication, so we can avoid sending and receiving unintentional messages through our expressions and body movements. These exercises are designed to help you understand how much information we...
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Dougy: How to Help a Grieving Teen
There is no method for helping someone grieve that will always prove effective. This site does, however, offer tips for those who want to help a teen manage their grief in an emotionally supportive manner.
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Kidshealth: Teaching Your Child Self Control
In order for a child to be successful some degree of self control is necessary. This site looks at how children can develop self control and how an adult should react if a child is demonstrates a lack of control.