In this "Show, Don't Tell" writing lesson, each student is given an “emotion stick” that contains an “emotion face” with the word that describes the emotion written below the face (nervous, excited, scared, etc.). As I read a story aloud, students hold up their sticks when they hear an example of the author “showing” the emotion they have been assigned.

Download this PDF file of the emotion faces. If you download the Print Shop version of the file, you can enlarge thes face, print them out, and attach them to sticks.