Kindergarten · Writing · week 32

Add a feeling word

Add a word describing a feeling to a sentence, making the writing more personal and detailed.

Writers can share more than just facts. They can share feelings too. Words like happy, sad, excited, and scared are feeling words.

Adding a feeling word tells the reader not just what happened, but how it felt.

📋 For the teacher
Teach it (10–15 min):
  • Brainstorm a short list of feeling words together first: happy, sad, mad, excited, scared, proud, silly.
  • Ask "how did that feel?" after your child tells you about an event, before they write it down.
  • Model adding a feeling word to one of your own sentences out loud, so the pattern is clear.
  • Accept any true feeling word. There is no wrong feeling, only whether it matches what actually happened.
Talk about it:
  • What feeling word did you use today?
  • Was that feeling word true for how you actually felt?
  • Can you think of a different feeling word for the same event?

Mastery looks like: They add an accurate feeling word to a sentence about a real event, enriching the sentence with true, personal detail.

Common stumbles: Choosing a feeling word that does not match the actual event; leaving the feeling word out entirely; using the same feeling word every time without thinking about it.

See it visually

Interactive, spoken-aloud tools that show this idea in motion.

Sentence BuilderDrag word tiles into a real sentence, with a capital and end mark.try →
Homework for this lessonType it, write it with a stylus, or print it for pencil & paper.open →
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