Do you ever feel loved? It feels warm and fuzzy inside when someone you care about shows you that they love you. Everyone wants to be loved. Exploring how to express love and share with others is so important. We feel love when reaches out to us in a loving caring way. Ed wants to show his love for his mom, and he shares this with his friends. They decide to find a way to show their moms how much they love them. Book twenty-two of the 'I Feel ... When ...' book series shows how many monster friends play together in a way to show their love for their moms.
This colorful book opens the door to discussing love in a nonthreatening way for younger audiences. It also uses nonviolent communication as described on the YouTube channel 'Dealing with Feelings' by psychotherapist Dr. Jim Porter and Karen Porter in their weekly show 'Feeling Fridays'. The husband-and-wife team invites you to explore feelings with your young reader as they begin to read. See how these furry friends learn appropriate ways to express feelings and solve problems by coping with their feelings through listening to one another and observing each other without judgement, expressing feelings and needs, and coping with feelings in compassionate helpful ways.
Many of the words in the book are basic sight words. Sight words are a subset of high-frequency words that do not sound the way they are spelled and are therefore not easily learned. Identifying these words and then finding them in the story will build literacy. Using words that students are familiar with helps them build fluency and flow as they read. Teaching students to memorize these words, by sight, helps them read faster with confidence. As you read through this series the young reader can develop mastery of all the sight words. Each story also contains a feeling word to build emotional literacy.
