Emotion Graphs Resources Pack: Templates and Teaching Notes

Develop understanding of characters using this emotion graphs worksheet. Pupils can explore how characters feel about particular events and record how these feelings change in a section of a story or throughout a book that you are reading.

The resource includes a simple graph that can be adapted for use with different characters and/or books. It could also be used to record how real people may have reacted to events throughout their lifetime, for example, how a Roman soldier might have felt at different points during a battle.

What is included in this whole-school resource pack?

• Emotions graph worksheet templates
• Teacher notes

How can these resources be used?

The resources can be used to explore characters’ feelings about different events in a story that you have read. This could be discussed as a class and completed as the story is read, or pupils could complete the graph independently, comparing and explaining their graph with others.

Emotion graphs are a strategy used to explore characters’ feelings and emotions. It is one of the many strategies used in Plazoom’s Real Comprehension, a whole-school resource to develop reading skills and promote reading for pleasure.

National Curriculum English programme of study links:

Reading
To understand what they read by drawing inferences, such as inferring characters feelings ... from their actions and justifying these with evidence.

This resource is part of the Essential Templates collection.
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• Emotions graph worksheet templates
• Teacher notes