Expanding Utterances: Who Questions with Christmas Presents and Animated Everyday Verbs (GIFS)

by SpeechRUS

Price: 350 points or $3.5 USD

Subjects: ela,speech,specialed

Grades: 14,13,1,2

Description: Students are presented with a present box under a Christmas tree with a toy shelf as well. Students are asked to open the box and provided with the visual "OPEN." On the next slide, students are asked "who is ___?" For example, who is eating and given 2 visual choices (e.g. he vs. she). Students are provided with everyday verbs. Students are given a sentence starter (e.g. ____ is running). Students are asked to drag and drop the correct pronoun into the beginning of the sentence starter. This activity contains the following action verbs: - Eating - Brushing Teeth - Waking Up - Getting Dressed - Drinking - Washing Face - Waiting at bus stop - Brushing Hair - Reading - Working - Showering Some goals that can be targeted during this activity: - Core word OPEN - Identifying and labeling pronouns (he vs. she) - Identifying and Labeling Action Verbs (e.g. can ask students "who is ___ when shown the picture of the verb). - Wh Questions - Expanding Utterances and Increasing MLU