Building Emotional Intelligence

A skills and sensory-based curriculum, this book offers 46 activity-based lessons to provide a comprehensive way to help children increase their emotional intelligence (EQ). Students learn about feelings as they relate to self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills.

Children will gain an understanding of emotions and practice specific emotion-related skills that can help them deal with the normal stressors of everyday life.

The 20-minutes lessons are flexible and can be delivered to classrooms, small groups or individual students.

Topics include:

• Five categories of feelings
• Emotion level ratings
• Coping skills
• Nonverbal reading of others
• Empathy and social communication skills