Building Emotional Literacy

This lesson helps students understand what it means to be emotionally literate and why it’s a vital skill for healthy relationships, stress management, and long-term success. Through a structured, supportive process, students explore key building blocks—recognizing and labeling emotions, accepting all feelings, identifying emotional triggers, and practicing regulation. They then design a graphic organizer that visually explains these concepts, reinforcing their own understanding while creating a resource that could support others. Includes editable presentation slides, a student activity reference, and a Canva template for the final