WHERE IS HAPPY?

Where is Happy? is designed to help kids 8 years and up build essential social language and literacy skills. This resource is part of a comprehensive collection that guides children through understanding nonverbal language, vocabulary for emotions, and the language skills needed for understanding and telling a story.

Overview: Each of our “WHERE?” Lessons help students integrate their understanding of facial expressions and tone of voice for a particular emotion, with the language and literacy skills they need for understanding places in their enviroment, and settings in stories. In the Where is Happy? Lesson, students will think about their "happy place." Using the context of a "happy place" students, will categorize and associate things they might find in a given location to build vocabulary for settings; while also considering how those things contribute to the emotional context of feeling happy. 

Benefits: This lesson will help students practice the following social language and literacy skills:

• Asking and answering questions that start with “Where….?”
• Initiating conversational small talk using items associated with your environment
  
• Continuing a conversation using items associated with your environment
  
• Vocabulary for words associated with a setting
  
• Drawing conclusions and inferencing about where a person might be based on vocabulary clues in conversation

Who Is It For?

This resource is perfect for speech therapists, counselors, educators, and parents looking to enrich the social and literacy skills of children aged 8 and up. It can be used in schools, at home, or in therapeutic settings to support children's overall social language and literacy development.