Expanding Utterances (4- Word Phrases) | Action Verbs

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by SpeechRUS

Price: 400 points or $4 USD

Subjects: ela,speech,specialed,holiday,thanksgivingUS,expressiveLanguage,receptiveLanguage

Grades: 14,13,1,2

Description: This interactive no-prep activity is an engaging way to help your students build a variety of receptive and expressive language skills with thanksgiving food and animated ACTION VERBS (GIFS). Students are able to set the table for the thanksgiving dinner feast by following 1-step directions to put specific food items on the thanksgiving table. After, there will be an action verb behind each item. On the next slide, students are able to answer WH questions (e.g. what is the girl/boy doing?), label verbs and increase MLU to form 4-word phrases. This activity includes: - A variety of thanksgiving food items (e.g. pie, bread, turkey, cornucopia, apple, jam, corn, yam, vegetables, pumpkin, mashed potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes, gravy, stuffing, cranberries, green beans, pumpkin pie, juice, cookie) - A variety of action verbs (e.g. singing, cooking, sleeping, kicking, swinging, eating, swimming, painting, hiding, bouncing, standing up, throwing, playing, coloring, climbing stairs, climbing ladder, drinking, running, jumping rope, dancing, jumping & walking - Visual Sentence Strips to help students expand their utterances The following IEP goals can be targeted during the activity: - Following 1-step directions - Answering WH questions - Expanding Utterances & Increasing MLU - Labeling Verbs - Identifying common nouns - Using subjective pronouns (he vs. she) in sentences