I Wear My Feelings - Softcover

Dona Herweck Rice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433334801 ISBN 13: 9781433334801

Publisher: Teacher Created Materials, 2012

Synopsis

I Wear My Feelings is a vibrant fiction reader for early learners in Grades K-1 that helps children recognize and express emotions in a healthy way. The story uses simple text and vivid illustrations to show a young child experiencing a range of feelings―like happiness, sadness, anger, and surprise―and learning how to identify, talk about, and manage those feelings.

• Introduces key emotional vocabulary to help students label and understand their feelings.
• Encourages self-awareness and empathy by modeling how to notice and respond to others’ emotions.
• Supports early reading fluency with repetitive sentence patterns and picture-text correlation.
• Provides an entry point for classroom discussions around social-emotional learning, behavior, and mental well-being.
• Includes teacher prompts and extension activities aligned to early ELA and SEL standards - ideal for read-alouds, emotion recognition lessons, or classroom routines.

About this title

About the Author

Dona Herweck Rice is the prolific author of books, stories, and poems for children of all ages. She’s written hundreds of books and more on just about every topic under the sun, from acrobats to zucchini and everything in between. She has also written award-winning books and curriculums for educators, especially on the subjects of writing and language arts. In fact, her first publications were a series for teachers on how to teach writing in the classroom. She spearheaded the development of Write TIME for Kids, which earned the Golden Lamp award for curriculum from the Association of American Publishers. Her writing is featured heavily in such acclaimed series as Focused Phonics, Untold Stories, Fiction Readers, Nonfiction Readers, Learn and Create, and more.

Dona’s best-selling children’s title with more than 13,000 copies is How Plants Grow, and her most recent titles include dozens of books for the Exploration Storytime series, two titles in the Curious Me!™ board book series, and Ride with Rampage in partnership with the Los Angeles Rams. When Dona visits classrooms to talk about being an author, the most requested titles include History’s Mysteries, Bad Guys and Gals of the Wild West, and Oh, Rats!––the latter being one of Dona’s particular favorites.

Dona is the creator of Cam E. Chameleon, the enchanting little reptile featured in her books The Adventures of Cam E. Chameleon and Cam and Sam’s Colorful Adventure. Observant readers can also find Cam singing and dancing throughout the illustrated retelling of If You’re Happy and You Know It.

Writing is Dona’s passion, but she also loves reading, live theater, and handmade arts and crafts, with many artists and creatives in all mediums among her extended family. Dona was a preschool and middle school teacher and is an acting coach for all ages. She lives in southern California with her husband, son, and one cute, silly, and loveable little dog.

Reviews

PreS-K-These sets include wordless galleries that are illustrated with space- and time-related photos or portraits of children expressing uncomplicated emotions; large-type song lyrics and simple rhymes paired to cartoons; and brightly illustrated stories with simple structures. These abbreviated but serviceable titles are equally suitable for sharing with small groups or individual reading (or pre-reading). The sets of children in each volume are assiduously inclusive, and the settings and items in all the pictures are designed to provoke discussion. In Time, for instance, figures are flanked by images of both face and digital clocks. Each entry closes with topic-specific suggestions for teachers or parents.α(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Teacher Created Materials
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1433334801
• ISBN 13: 9781433334801
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 16