Help primary students recognise their feelings, notice body clues and choose a regulation strategy with these FREE Regulation Strategy Cards and visual supports.
These simple, student-friendly regulation tools can be used to explicitly teach self-regulation, support emotional regulation and give students practical strategies they can use when they are feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, worried or upset.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
✔ Notice, Choose, Try regulation framework
✔ Visual body clues and early signs of big feelings
✔ Box Breathing strategy
✔ Five Finger Breathing strategy
✔ Take a Break strategy
✔ Quiet Space strategy
✔ Movement Break strategy
✔ Ask for Help strategy
✔ Regulation Strategy choice board
✔ Teacher/support staff guidance
✔ Printable visual supports for individual or classroom use
HOW TO USE THESE REGULATION STRATEGY CARDS
Use the cards to help students:
• Recognise what their body is telling them
• Identify when they may need a regulation strategy
• Choose a strategy that feels helpful
• Practise calming and regulation strategies
• Ask an adult for help when needed
• Build independence with emotional regulation
The visual format makes these cards suitable for classroom displays, individual student support, small-group intervention, Learning Support sessions and regulation spaces.
IDEAL FOR
• Primary classrooms
• Learning Support
• Special Education
• Small-group intervention
• Social and emotional learning
• Behaviour support
• Individual student support
• Regulation and calm-down spaces
• Students who benefit from visual supports and explicit teaching
This FREE resource is a useful introduction to the regulation resources available from Mrs Bell's Learning Lab.
