Why? Emotion Cards
by First Steps Learning © 2026
Price: $4 USD
Subjects: litReadingComprehension,reading,ela
Grades: 13,1
Description
Why? Emotion Cards | Feelings & Emotion Causes | Social-Emotional Learning Why? Emotion Cards helps young learners understand emotions by connecting feelings to the situations that cause them. Students look closely at each picture, identify how a child feels, and answer the question “Why?” by choosing the best explanation. Unlike simple emotion-identification activities, this deck requires students to use visual clues, context, and basic inferencing to determine the cause of an emotion. The 40 cards include situations involving happy, sad, angry, scared, surprised, excited, worried, disappointed, proud, relieved, nervous, and mixed emotions. Students practice: Identifying emotions from facial expressions and situations Understanding emotion + cause Using visual clues to make simple inferences Connecting events with feelings Explaining why someone might feel a certain way Recognizing more complex or mixed emotions Developing social-emotional vocabulary Building early perspective-taking skills
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