Interactive Social & Emotional Binder

Do you work with students who have difficulty identifying feelings and emotions or responding appropriately in social situations? The Social & Emotional Interactive Binder utilizes evidence-based methods to help students build CASEL skills in the areas of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making.
The binder has a total of 116 interactive hook and loop cards designed to help teach proper responses related to daily-life social language situations, as well as encourage a better understanding of emotions and feelings. It is divided into two sections:

Part 1: Interactive Illustrated Social Language Cards - Challenges with social language communication are common issues for many neurodiverse individuals, including those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The pages include 48 different colorful interactive illustrated cards velcroed to six speech pages. Two themes include “What should you say?” and “what should you say instead?” Discuss the illustrated social language situation written and illustrated on the top card and lift to reveal the suggested answer underneath. Examples: "What should you say...” “...if you want someone to pass the milk?”, “..to someone whose pet died?” etc. Also: "What should you say instead of...” “Get out of my way!” and “Give me your pencil!” etc.

Part 2: Interactive Illustrated Feelings and Emotions Cards - Sorting out and identifying emotions and feelings are an important part of Social Language and life that many neurodiverse students, including those with ASD, are trying to better understand. The pages include 68 different colorful interactive illustrated cards attached with velcro. Two themes include: “Sorting Out Emotions” (EX: "You dropped your ice cream cone on the grass." or "You found money in your pocket that you forgot about." etc.) Allow the student to sort and match the cards onto the feeling-choices pages (EX: Happy or Sad, Angry or Calm etc.). The second theme is:“Labeling a Variety of Emotions and Feelings”. Each Page contains 12 illustrations of emotion scenarios. There is also a holding/display page filled with a wide variety of Emotion choices cards. Discuss the illustrated situation one at a time. Allow the student an opportunity to try to identify the choice of emotion that scenario may represent, then choose from the display page and place it onto the illustrated scenario.

Further suggestions for use are included in the instructions.
Everything is heavy-duty laminated with hook and loop attachments. All pages are three hole punched for easy storage in the 3-ring binder.

Contents:

• 8 page instruction packet

• 6 What Should You Say pages with 8 Lift and Reveal cards per page

• 3 Sorting Feelings pages with 12 Lift and Reveal cards per page

• 4 Labeling Feelings pages with 12 Scenarios per page

• 1 Feeling Label sheet with 30 emotion labels (including duplicates to support working with more than one student or scenario at a time).

Note: Discussing and learning about social language situations and identifying emotions and feelings can be a complicated and delicate topic for some students. Teaching these topics should not focus on if answers are ‘Right or Wrong,” but rather on learning from the discussions of whatever answer is given. These materials are designed as a tool to assist in teaching topics regarding social language, emotions and feelings. These materials are not designed to be used as part of mental health therapy or treatment plans. Emotions are abstract concepts. Communicating and identifying emotions can be difficult for any individual, especially those with special education needs. The student’s abilities and goals should be considered before using these or any learning materials.

Ages: 5 and up.