The Worrysaurus - A Children's Book about Anxiety and Worries

The Worrysaurus
Written by Rachel Bright
Illustrated by Chris Chatterton

https://www.rachelbrightbooks.co.uk
https://www.chrischatterton.com

We ALL can learn so much from this story!! More and more children are having anxiety and worry troubles, this book is a great prompt for children (and adults) to find and use coping strategies when the worry spiral begins.

Teaching Ideas:
-Identification of emotions
-helpful vs not helpful thoughts
-labelling feelings vs labelling what is actually occurring
-identification of internal events
-identification of actions
-cause and effect
-generalization for identification of common items (lots of drawn pictures early in the story)
-Receptive identification (touch/find) of butterfly could be targeted on each page!!
-Receptive identification of colours (especially on the last page!!)
-Writing prompts: what would you keep in your tin of happy things? What is something that can make you worried? What could you do for a friend that felt worried?

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