Where is the Mouse: Expanding Utterances Identifying and Labeling Spatial Concepts

by SpeechRUS

Price: 400 points or $4 USD

Subjects: ela,speech,specialed

Grades: 14,13,1,2

Description: Students are presented with a mouse from the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie," a box, a kitchen cabinet and a closet. Students are first asked to identify spatial concepts (e.g. on, on top, in front, behind, under, above, below, between, next to) in a field of 2. After, students are asked "where" questions such as "where is the mouse" and provided with a sentence starter containing 3 empty spaces to help students expand their utterances as they answer the where questions. For example, students are presented with the sentence starter (the ___ is ___ the ___). Students are given 2 visual choices per blank box to help them drag and drop the correct item into the correct place of the sentence starter. Students are able to form sentences such as "the mouse is under the box" or "the mouse is on top of the closet." This helps students work on spatial concepts as well. Students are asked to follow 1-step directions with the following spatial concepts: - in front - behind - on top - above - below - under - next to - between Some of the following IEP goals can be targeted during this activity: - Wh- questions - Identifying and labeling Basic concepts (e.g. Spatial Concepts) - Expanding Utterances and increasing MLU