Emotional Regulation Activity Worksheets | Communication Skills Activities | SEL

About This Resource

**★ **Emotional Regulation | Communication Skills

**★ **18 pages

**★ **Print and Digital (Text Boxes Already Created!)

**★ **Excellent for Middle and High School Students

★ Sample Responses included

★ Social Emotional Learning

This resource includes:

**★ 3 **Scenario Practice Worksheets with two scenarios per page

★ 6 Single-Scenario Extended Response Worksheets

**★ **Detailed Sample Responses (for all variations)

**★ **Google Slides link

Do your students struggle with shutting down, lashing out, or saying things they don’t mean when they’re upset? Do they need support expressing their feelings without escalating conflict? This resource can greatly help your students practice communicating calmly, respectfully and effectively during conflicts!

This Emotion Regulation and Communication Skills SEL Packet is designed to help middle school and high school students understand their emotions, communicate more effectively, and respond to real-life conflicts in a calm, respectful way. With relatable teen scenarios and structured prompts, students practice expressing disappointment, frustration, or hurt using mature and healthy communication skills.

This resource is perfect for SEL lessons, counseling sessions, conflict resolution groups, restorative conversations, advisory, health classes, or behavior intervention blocks.

What’s Included (9 Worksheets Total)

This packet includes 6 real-life, high-school-appropriate scenarios that focus on common teen conflicts such as:

⭐ Feeling ignored or dismissed by a friend or partner
⭐ Arguments where one person interrupts or refuses to listen
⭐ Secrets being shared without permission
⭐ Being embarrassed in front of peers
⭐ Teachers exaggerating behavior or academic struggles
⭐ Feeling pushed aside or replaced in a relationship

Each pair of scenarios appears in two formats

1️⃣ Scenario Practice Worksheets (3 pages)

**★ **Two scenarios per page
**★ **Students read the situation and rewrite an unhealthy reaction into a respectful, calm, mature response
**★ **Builds emotional control, empathy, and conflict-resolution skills

2️⃣ Single-Scenario Extended Response Worksheets (6 pages)

**★ **Each scenario separated out onto its own worksheet
**★ **Includes a thoughtful, multi-part guiding question
**★ **Encourages deeper reflection and longer, more meaningful writing
**★ **Helps students explain how they would manage their emotions AND communicate respectfully

These dual formats allow for differentiation, choice, and flexible use in a wide range of settings.

Skills Students Will Practice

✔ Emotion regulation
✔ Healthy communication
✔ Conflict resolution
✔ Expressing feelings respectfully
✔ Interpersonal boundaries
✔ Self-reflection and decision-making
✔ Restorative conversation skills

Why Teachers and Counselors Love This Resource

✔️ Highly relatable scenarios students see in real life
✔️ Easy to implement—no prep required
✔️ Works well for individual work, small groups, or full-class SEL lessons
✔️ Encourages students to think before reacting
✔️ Helps reduce conflict, misunderstandings, and drama
✔️ Printable AND digital-friendly formats
✔️ Perfect for SEL portfolios, journaling, or interventions

Great For:

✅ Middle School and High School SEL
✅ School Counselors and Social Workers
✅ Advisory | Homeroom
✅ Health Classes
✅ Special Education (Self-contained/Resource)
✅ Restorative Circles | Reflection Rooms
✅ Behavior Intervention Lessons
✅ Conflict-resolution skill-building