Back to School Emotions Sorting Mats Set 2 | SEL Speech Therapy SPED Autism
Product Description
Back to School Emotions Sorting Mats Set 2 | 7 Emotion Mats for Year-Round Use
This second back-to-school emotions sorting set teaches students to identify and sort emotions through engaging mixed visuals. The set includes 7 unique sorting mats — one for each of the following emotions: Happy, Sad, Surprised, Grumpy, Angry, Worried, and Excited. Each mat features a mix of visuals (bus, apple, crayon, star, unicorn, cactus, and football) that work both for back-to-school AND year-round use.
Perfect for SEL lessons, speech therapy, special education, and counseling support.
★ Year-round usability — works any time of year, with extra appeal during back-to-school season
★ Perfect for: Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Special Education Teachers, School Counselors, Autism Classrooms, SEL Lessons, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade
7 Emotion Sorting Mats Included:
- 😊 Sorting Happy
- 😢 Sorting Sad
- 😲 Sorting Surprised
- 😒 Sorting Grumpy
- 😠 Sorting Angry
- 😟 Sorting Worried
- 🤩 Sorting Excited
Mixed Visuals Throughout:
A bus, an apple, a crayon, a star, a unicorn, a cactus, and a football — a fun mix of school-themed and year-round imagery.
Skills Targeted:
- Identifying emotions (7 different feelings, including "grumpy"!)
- Emotional vocabulary
- Social emotional learning (SEL)
- Classification and categorization
- Visual discrimination
- Empathy and perspective taking
- Emotional regulation
- Receptive and expressive language
- Following directions
- Independent work skills
How to Use These Emotions Sorting Mats:
Students look at each picture and sort it onto the correct emotion mat. Use in:
- Independent workstations and centers
- Small group SEL lessons
- Language therapy groups
- 1:1 instruction
- Counseling check-ins
- Morning meetings
- Back-to-school orientation activities (bus and apple visuals)
- Year-round SEL practice
Built-in differentiation: To decrease difficulty, give students fewer mats (2-3 emotions at a time). To increase difficulty, give them more mats.
If your students enjoy these activities, there are many more sorting activities in my collection, you can find some of them at the links below:
More Hands-On Sorting Activities
For more hands-on emotions themed activities, please see the following links:
