Thanksgiving and Categories

As we continue to work on our Thanksgiving unit today we focused on categories regarding food. I have created an activity for my students to sort Thanksgiving food into categories (drink, vegetables, meat, and desserts). Students took turns picking a food and determining which category it belongs in. After we completed this activity each student got to create their own Thanksgiving Feast (see picture above). After my students created their own feast they had to tell the group which items they choose and which category it belonged to.  This activity also gave us an opportunity to work on formulating grammatically correct sentences and answering wh-questions. See link below for this activity on TPT which is currently on sale!!


http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/My-Thanksgiving-Feast-Speech-Language-Therapy-Autism-400462

Thanksgiving Language Activities

During the next few weeks our theme for speech-language therapy will be Thanksgiving. I have created a unit (see TPT link below) which focuses on different types of language objectives with the theme of Thanksgiving (categories, prepositions, attributes). Today we worked on Thanksgiving categories. First, we made a web as a group of things that are associated with Thanksgiving (i.e. pumpkin pie, turkey, football, Native Americans). After the students independently worked on sorting Thanksgiving nouns (see picture below). This was a great way for me to progress monitor how the students understand the lesson we did as a group.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Categories-Describing-and-Preposition-for-Speech-Therapy-autism-379888

In The Fall-Adaptive Book

Halloween is over and Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away.  Before I start to work on Thanksgiving themed therapy with my students I am going to revisit fall for a week or two. With my students with severe disabilities I plan on focusing on fall vocabulary. This week I will be reading a book with them that I created called In The Fall. This book only has a few words change per page so students can focus on fall vocabulary. This book discusses fall vocabulary (chilly, squirrel, jacket, pumpkin, leaves change colors, leave fall, soccer, football, masks). After we read the story we will work on identifying fall vocabulary words out of a field of two or three. See link below for this book and lesson on TPT!

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/In-The-Fall-Adaptive-Book-AutismEarly-Language-Learners-662306