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

by SpeechRUS

Price: 450 points or $4.5 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. After, students are asked "What is the boy/girl doing." Students are given a sentence starter "The girl/boy is____ and given 2 visual choices. Students are asked to drag and drop the correct item into the blank space in the sentence starter to expand their utterances while answering the WH questions. 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 - Wh Questions (who and what) - Expanding Utterances and Increasing MLU