Identifying Emotions Task Cards | SEL Feelings Recognition | Autism SPED

Help your students learn to recognize and understand feelings with these engaging Identifying Emotions Task Cards—perfect for building strong social emotional learning (SEL) and social skills.

These hands-on emotions task cards provide repeated practice with identifying emotions using clear visual supports, making them ideal for students who benefit from structured, explicit instruction.

✅ What’s Included

• 72 Identifying Emotions Task Cards
• 3 different sets for repeated practice and easy rotation
• Simple, student-friendly visuals
• Multiple response options:
  • Clip the correct answer
  • Circle the correct answer
  • Point to the emotion

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Identifying emotions
• Recognizing facial expressions
• Social emotional learning (SEL)
• Feelings recognition
• Social skills development

🧩 Perfect For

• Special Education
• Autism support classrooms
• Speech therapy
• Preschool, Kindergarten, and early elementary
• Independent work stations
• Task boxes
• Small group instruction

💡 Why Teachers Love This Resource

• Provides repetition with variety (3 different sets)
• Easy to differentiate for different learners
• Low-prep, print-and-go
• Great for visual learners and non-readers
• Keeps students engaged while practicing essential SEL skills

🔄 How to Use

• Add to task boxes for independent work
• Use during SEL or social skills lessons
• Incorporate into centers or morning work
• Practice in small groups or 1:1 instruction This download includes three different sets of cards for a total of 72 cards. Each set is slightly different so that students can have lots of opportunities to practice, and so that you can change out the sets in your task boxes and work stations and provide slightly different ways to work on this skill.

For more hands-on emotions activities, please see the following link:

Hands-On Emotions Activities

For more social skills activities, please see the link below:

Social Skills Activities

For more hands-on behavior activities, please see the following link:

Hands-On Behavior Actvities