How I Feel Word Cards

These How I Feel Word Cards provide a clear, durable resource for teaching and revising vocabulary related to feelings and emotions using written language only.

Designed to support emotional vocabulary development and oral language, each card displays one feeling word in bold black text, helping students recognise, read, and recall emotion-related vocabulary during whole-class and small-group instruction.

What’s included

• Set of 16 word cards
• One feeling word per card
• Bold black text for high visibility
• Clear, uncluttered layout focused on written language
• Fully laminated for durability

How these word cards are used

• Explicit instruction and teacher modelling
• Feelings and emotions vocabulary recognition
• Sentence-building and oral language activities
• Revision and retrieval practice

By focusing on text only, these cards support accurate reading and confident use of emotional vocabulary without visual distraction.

Pair with matching resources

These word cards are designed to be used alongside the How I Feel Chart, Theme Cards, and games to support structured practice with feelings and emotions language.

Text: I am hot, I am hungry, I am happy, I am sick, I am embarrassed, I am surprised, I am sad, I am scared, I am tired, I am bored, I am lonely, I am angry, I am cold, I am thirsty, I am nervous, I am worried.