Another Speech-Language pathologist I work with found this great “Who Am I” puzzle and turned it into a really fun activity to work on answering “who” questions with students. I used this activity in so many therapy groups recently to work on those “who” questions. I find I sometimes forget to target those “who” questions and focus on “what” and “where” the most. The puzzle is called “Who Am I” but I’m sure if you like this idea you could find a similar puzzle at your local stores.
The puzzle contained 20 different people. For most of my groups, I had the students put together 10 of the people and focus on those 10 while completing the activity instead of all 20. First, I had the students work together to complete the different people puzzles. Sometimes I had one student work on completing the puzzle for 5 of the people and the other student complete 5 different people or you could have the students work on building the people puzzles together. It really just depends on the students but you can still target turn taking. The students have to take turns putting a piece on one of the people puzzles and it was hard for some of my students to wait for his/her puzzle piece.
After all 10 people or how ever many people I had the group build were completed we started to answer “who” questions. I had a small picture which represented where a person lived/worked. For example; astronaut/space, doctor/hospital, clown/circus, cowboy/ranch, pilot/airport, princess/tower, wizard/castle, etc. Then I held up one of the small pictures and asked a “who” question. For example “who works at a construction site?” The visual of all the people helped the student identify the correct person to answer the “who” question. If the student didn’t know the name of the person I would given them a choice such as “pilot” or “construction worker”. I might just model the correct name for the student if they might not be familiar with some of the people.
Keep working until you match all the pictures with the correct person!
After we answered all the “who” questions related to where the people work/live, I had them do the same task but identify items which are associated with that person. For example baseball player/baseball, doctor/medicine, hammer/construction worker, cowboy/horse, clown/balloons, etc. I worked on the students answering those “who” questions and finding the correct person to go with the item. For example, “who throws a baseball?” or “who uses a hammer?” Having the visual of all the people really helped the students start understanding “who” is a person.
I really like this activity and found it really flexible to use. Here is what it looked like to match both the location and item related to the person.
I had a couple groups of students put together all 20 people and answer both sets of “who” questions. It was fun and challenging to do all 20!
Hope you find this “who” activity helpful for some of your students!
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This is an awesome activity that I would like to try. I will try to purchase the puzzle set and make the additional pics to help our students with answering more questions!! Thank you for sharing with us:)>
I love this activity and the puzzle is easy to find. Will you be posting the visuals or questions to go with the puzzle?! Please share I love it!!! Ordered the puzzle already.