Wow! It’s already September and for some of us we have been in school for a couple of weeks now and for others our students are just starting back after the long holiday weekend. The focus for my students this month is working on school supply vocabulary terms; as well as, a variety of linguistic concepts. I wanted to start off the school year with some fun and new adapted books to target these skills so I created a series of school book which includes; Let’s Get Ready for School!”, “What’s on the Desk?”, and “Pack Up the Backpack!”
“What’s on the Desk?” focuses on identifying a variety of school supply items and number concepts 1-6. The book also reinforces the prepositional concept “on” throughout the book. To set up the book, I placed a strip of hard Velcro in the rectangular box at the bottom of each page. Then I placed soft Velcro on the back of all the school supply items and cut out all the objects. Each page has 6 school supply items to place in the rectangular box along the bottom. This way the student needs to count the items and know when to stop instead of just putting the set number of pieces on the desk from the box.
You can help your students point to each box along the top as you read the question “what’s on the desk?” If you are using a core board with your student, I like to also use the core board to ask the question again by touch the core words “what” and “on” as I read with the student.
As I move towards the bottom of the page I read the sentence “Look 4 markers on the desk.” I model for the student how to count the objects as you place the markers on the desk. “one, two, three, four….STOP” Then I touch all the markers on the desk as I count 1-4 again. I move the marker pieces back to the bottom and tell the student it’s his/her turn to count. I help the student count out the pieces to four and then say “STOP” as we hold up our hand. A lot of times when I do counting tasks up to a certain number I use the “STOP no more no less” or just simply “STOP” with the hand gesture. This helps the student learn those number concepts.
For my students using AAC devices or core boards I focus on having the student touch the number and the preposition “on” when we move to the bottom of the page. So for the “Look two scissors on the desk.” I have the student touch “2” and “on”. If the student has a voice output device and can generate longer phrases I target having the student use the phrase “2 scissors on” or “2 scissors on desk”.
I continue to read the book modeling these sometimes new school supply vocabulary terms and practicing how to count the correct number of school supplies needed for each desk. I hope your students enjoying counting out all the school supplies for each desk!
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I purchased these books and absolutely love them! The repetition is great for my emerging readers. Thank you for sharing them. How did you go about making your core board?