Where is the Laughing Clown (GIFs): Expanding Utterances with Spatial Concepts

by SpeechRUS

Price: 350 points or $3.5 USD

Subjects: ela,speech,specialed

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 targeting spatial concepts and "Where" Questions. This activity contains spatial concepts and visual sentence strips! This interactive activity is extremely motivating and engaging with ANIMATED GIFS! Students are presented with an animated laughing clown (GIFS), a tent, and a ferris wheel. Students are asked "where" questions 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 clown is under the tent" and "the clown is behind the ferris wheel." Students are asked to identify and expand utterances using the following spatial concepts: - in front - behind - on - 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