Grade Level: K-2
Guided Reading Level: K
Lexile Level: NP

Review: This nonfiction book is the perfect asset for any classroom! Readers are able to explore different emotions with this storyline of engaging text. Showcasing associated words and actions to help make connections to what students may be feeling throughout the day. The story brings words to life through perfect emphasis, artwork, and prose. Students can easily make connections with how our characters are feeling making this is a great book for teachers to model fluent reading techniques with students as they explore emotions and ways to address these feelings in the classroom. Make sure to pick up this wonderful exaggerative book for your students today!

Teacher Tips: This is a great text for students facing/ having any emotional distress or trouble expressing how they are feeling. If you are a teacher with a feelings corner this is a great text to help students work through their emotions and to read while they regroup. Students can also explore vocabulary with this text challenging students to find synonyms to extend their learning and put what they understand to practice. This will also help students to decode tricky words later on as they are able to recognize context clues in understanding these emotions. There are many lesson plans that can connect students emotions in engaging ways, such as having students act out different feeling, practicing fluency and reading with emotion, and many more!

Really enjoyable book about all different emotions. The use of rhyming added an element of fun which gave this book more of a light hearted feel which will help in drawing children in and helping them in understanding what is being said. The final page of this book brings it all together really nicely saying how it doesn’t matter what emotions you’re feeling, they all make you who you are. I can see this being really beneficial for work on emotional regulation.

It's amazing, it helps a lot my autistic girl, it help her to express more of her feelings.

From my own book collection, I reread The Way I Feel by Janan Cain aloud with my daughter today. To be honest, I actually finished my picture book stack from our last library visit. But, I am glad that I returned to one of my favorites for this #BookaDay challenge. I have not read it since my boys were little and before the movie Inside Out was made.

Each emotion is highlighted over two pages with small text which describes it in a way a child can understand and relate to if they have had experience with it. The illustrations assist the child in the understanding of the word.

I really like how this book gives meaning and a name to the different of emotions that children may experience. Because they have a name and a definition, students know that they are real and that they have a purpose. I have found in working with and raising children that this is not something they just know. What they do know, is that it is a different feeling than what they had before. So it is important that they find out what to do with the emotions that they experience.

After reading this book, I want to do an activity in their journal. Each student will create a chart be given a chart to cut and paste into their writing journals. The section headings will be the different emotions discussed in the book; as well as some blank sections. The headings: Characteristics, Examples, and Appropriate Response will guide the discussions. Then we will have a second reading of the book. Through each of the emotions, we will discuss as a class what are some characteristics of this emotion, times that we have felt this way, and how do we appropriately respond to the emotion. This completed chart, will be a reference guide for students in their writing or a directed assignment to those students having difficulty processing an emotion.

This book is about different emotions and how they make us feel inside. I think this is a great book to teach children how to navigate through their emotions. Children may get overwhelmed when they start feeling emotions but don’t know how to express them. This could also be useful for a child with special needs since sometimes they need extra help navigating their emotions. I believe this book would be best for children in kindergarten to 2nd grade.

I loved this book. Read it with my kiddo and we shared about our emotions and explored different times they feel the emotions expressed in the book. I love that the author knew that by giving language of emotions to our youth, that they will grow up with the vocabulary and ability to communicate their feelings with the world. That is such a powerful thing in today’s society. Highly recommend the read to all, but especially to individuals with children.

"The Way I Feel" is a book that teaches children different kinds of feelings, it gives them examples of when they might feel that way. I think this book is necessary in a classroom because children are barely learning about their emotions. It also lets children know that it is okay to feel any type of emotion. It is okay to be sad. It is okay to be happy. It is okay to be angry. The illustrations are funny and have a lot of detail to them.

Text-to-Teaching Connection:
What is a reading response activity that you can do in a
classroom with children in response to the book?

With this book, our students can be taught their emotions. When students are at such a young age they don't know how to always explain how they feel. This book is showing them it's okay to show their feelings either if they are mad, disappointed, happy, silly, sad and etc. After reading this book we can see it can be connected to other books that show emotions. Like "Tough guys have feelings too" which shows students that you can always show how you feel no matter what.

1.Numerous Design Awards, Teacher Choice award 2005
Featured by:
Children's Book of the Month Club (Fall 2003)
Scholastic Book Clubs (2001–present)
Barnes & Noble "Picture Book Wall" (Summer 2003)
Discovery Toys
Books Are Fun
Target Book Pick o' the Month, April 2007

2.Pre Kindergarten- 3rd Grade

3. This brilliantly hued book is an engaging narrative that introduces the depths of emotions for ages 3-9. This colorful book explores the emotional perspective of a young girl expressing her feelings. Janan Cain explores various emotions in this book switching continuously from page to page rapidly. This book will allow students to identify with their own emotions and this book is ideal for students who struggle with self-regulation This book allows the audience to indulge and understand everyday achievements and tribulations. The purpose of this book is to start a conversation that as humans we all feel a range of emotions, and then teach appropriate ways to deal with these feelings.

4. This book would be an excellent addition for a self-contained or inclusive classroom. For students who struggle emotional, physically, or socially they may struggle with how to communicate effectively with peers and adults on how they are feeling. Introducing this book into the classroom will create a safe space for expression. The rhyming words included in this book add to the playful illustration and upbeat content that is age appropriate. Each image displayed does a great job of conveying each emotion, and children will enjoy the simplicity, and will hopefully duplicate what they see.

5.The Way I Feel Themed Lessons

(Kindergarten- 3rd)
Feelings Flashcards and puzzles: In small groups, students can practice identifying various emotions. After students memorize each emotion allow them to independently work on a puzzle where they can match the descriptive word to the image provided.

(2nd & 3rd)
Self Portraits: In a whole group allow children to draw and design the facial expressions on three paper plates. Given children various supplies such as yarn, pre-cut construction paper, markers, crayons, glue, and other materials. This project should be open to how they personally feel. After the completion of their faces, each child should write a brief description of the emotion created.

This is a helpful book for parents, teachers, and other caregivers to read with children. It shows young children how different emotions may look and feel and does not pass judgment on them.

The rhyming narrative and colorful, cartoonish illustrations complement each other nicely. This book is appropriate and helpful for reading with young children, especially if they are having a hard time expressing and understanding their feelings.

This book is a good book because its all about the d ifferent emotions, from when the little boy was mad, sad, jealous, happy, scared and even excited. you can read this book to children on a day you are talking about emotions or even when you may feel some kids are going through a hard time . this book just might make thier day just to let them know thier not the only one who has emotions or feels sad and mad somedays. It is a social/emotional book. My favorite part of the story was thanksful. having a child saying they are thankful is a big word.


Learning Experiences- I would make cards for each emotion that was in the book and have each child pick a card and draw what that expression looks like.

The Way I Feel is another great learning tool. This book names feeling and emotions. The think I like the best is that the pictures show the emotions it is describing. Some kids do not know how to express their emotions. Reading this book could help them see that other people feel the way they do. It can be used in a classroom to help the kids learn and express their emotions. It is okay to feel all the emotions sometimes. Kids just do not always know how to handle it. The examples of the emotions and feeling is funny and silly. The kids will like it and it should keep them focused throughout the story. The kids could even guess the emotions by the facial expression before the teacher reads it aloud.The illustrations are also very diverse and show all sorts of different people. It is a great tool for a classroom.