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Teaching emotional granularity: The Affect Mat
Ecstatic Help children notice
Furious
Petrified Delighted their energy levels
and pleasant and
unpleasant feelings
(affect).
Support children to
Irritated
build a wide range of
language (granulation)
to communicate this
Disappointed
‘affect’.
Help them to work
out whether their
Chilled
affect matches the
Depressed
size of the issue.

