Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Angry

Feelings and Emotions: Feeling Angry explores the challenging emotion of anger in a thoughtful and relatable way for young children. Through engaging illustrations and everyday scenarios, it shows why children might feel angry, how it can affect behaviour, and most importantly-ways to manage and calm those strong emotions. The story is both reassuring and educational, helping children understand that anger is a normal emotion and offering strategies to deal with it constructively. Ideal for classroom or home use, this title includes practical notes for parents and teachers, packed with discussion prompts and suggestions to extend the learning. A key resource for social-emotional learning, it supports children as they develop empathy, resilience, and self-regulation.

Educational Benefits:

• Develops emotional intelligence and vocabulary around feelings.
• Teaches strategies for self-regulation and anger management.
• Encourages empathy and understanding of others' emotions.
• Supports discussions around mental wellbeing and emotional literacy.

Classroom Ideas:

• Role-play calming techniques such as breathing or using a quiet space.
• Make a class "feelings wall" where students can share emotions and coping strategies.
• Use the book as part of a wider SEL unit exploring different emotions each week.
• Create illustrated œanger action plans for students to keep as a reference tool.

Information:

• Ages: 5 years and up
• Format: Picture book with educator notes