Happiness, sadness, bravery, anger, shyness . . . our hearts can feel so many feelings! Some make us feel as light as a balloon, others as heavy as an elephant. In My Heart explores a full range of emotions, describing how they feel physically, inside, with language that is lyrical but also direct to empower readers to practice articulating and identifying their own emotions.
This thought provoking Valentine’s Day book can be used in speech therapy to address social/emotional issues like basic and complex emotions. It is also great for targeting figurative language (similes and personification) and for targeting interoception as well as for sounds including: /f/ initial, /l/ medial and final, and /ar/! Discover more of the speech and language teaching concepts for using In My Heart: A Book of Feelings in speech therapy below: