Recognising Emotional Perspective Thinking1

Te Whāinga
This activity helps students to recognise and reflect on their own emotional perspective and on the emotional
responses of a character portrayed in the text. It also offers the opportunity to enrich students’ personal
vocabulary for describing their emotional responses.

Ngā Rautaki Whakaaro

Describing, labelling, inferring.

He Kupu Matua mō te Mahi

Whakamārama, ngā kare-ā-roto, whakawhiti whakaaro, whakatau.

Te Mahi
Students discuss the emotional responses of characters in a narrative or recount text. Introduce this activity by
starting with a well-known story that all the students are familiar with and work through the process together
before you have students work with a partner or small group to apply this activity to another well-known
story.

He Rauemi Tautoko
A copy of a narrative or recount text.

Te Ara Tohutohu
1. Discuss with students the purpose of this activity – to reflect on the emotional responses of a character in
the text.
2. Share a narrative or recount text with the students.
3. Have students turn to a friend and ask them to describe and label the emotion portrayed by a character or
person in the text.
4. Ask students to discuss what they think caused those feelings.
5. Have students share with their partner whether they have experienced similar feelings and to describe
what caused those feelings.
6. Have some students share their responses with the whole group.
7. Follow this format to discuss each character or person portrayed in the text.

1 Adapted from D. Whitehead (2001, p. 83).