Emotional Literacy

D01.S1 P1: Emotional & Social Awareness

Naming, expressing, and understanding one's own feelings and the feelings of others.

K–12 objective ladder

K D01.S1.K.01 Name and identify basic feelings (happy, sad, angry, scared, calm) in self and others.
K D01.S1.K.02 Describe a feeling using words, a drawing, or a movement.
1 D01.S1.01.01 Name and show a growing set of feelings such as proud, lonely, and excited in themselves and others.
1 D01.S1.01.02 Connect a feeling to the situation that caused it, using the frame I felt ___ when ___.
2 D01.S1.02.01 Use feeling words to tell the difference between similar emotions, such as mad and frustrated or sad and disappointed.
2 D01.S1.02.02 Notice where a feeling shows up in the body, such as tense shoulders or a fast heartbeat, and name the feeling.
3 D01.S1.03.01 Describe how a feeling can change over time and name when they feel more than one feeling at once.
3 D01.S1.03.02 Explain how the same situation can make different people feel differently.
4 D01.S1.04.01 Describe the intensity of a feeling as a little, some, or a lot, and what each level feels like.
4 D01.S1.04.02 Recognize complex feelings such as jealousy, guilt, and pride and connect them to real situations.
5 D01.S1.05.01 Explain how thoughts, memories, and body sensations can shape a feeling.
5 D01.S1.05.02 Compare how feelings are expressed in different families, cultures, and situations.
6 D01.S1.06.01 Identify patterns in their own emotional responses and name what tends to trigger them.
6 D01.S1.06.02 Distinguish what a person feels from what a person shows, and guess the feeling behind a behavior.
7 D01.S1.07.01 Describe mixed or conflicting feelings, such as happy and sad at once, in precise language.
7 D01.S1.07.02 Explain how cultural norms shape which feelings are shown, hidden, or valued.
8 D01.S1.08.01 Analyze a strong emotional reaction by separating the event, the thought, and the feeling.
8 D01.S1.08.02 Explain how emotion can both inform and distort judgment, using a personal example.
9 D01.S1.09.01 Use a broad emotional vocabulary to articulate subtle and secondary emotions in complex social situations.
9 D01.S1.09.02 Analyze how emotions are shaped by social context, media, and group belonging.
10 D01.S1.10.01 Explain how personal history and culture shape the way a person experiences and names emotion.
10 D01.S1.10.02 Evaluate how technology and media influence emotional life, such as online comparison, empathy, and emotional contagion.
11 D01.S1.11.01 Articulate the emotional climate of a group or society and how collective emotions such as hope, fear, and grief arise.
11 D01.S1.11.02 Reflect on their own emotional development over time and name areas of strength and growth.
12 D01.S1.12.01 Integrate emotional understanding into ethical judgment, recognizing how emotion informs and can bias moral reasoning.
12 D01.S1.12.02 Respond to complex, emotionally charged personal and global situations with insight, care, and emotional wisdom.