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Ensuring the AAC System is Available at All Times
According to the United Nations, communication is a human right, and for those who work with individuals who use Augmentative Alternative Communication
(AAC), we realize the urgency in making sure their system(s) are available at all times. We also realize that accessibility across settings cannot occur without the
provision of training, coordination and planning and so such implementation supports remain the cornerstone of what we do. We also know that the depth and breadth of such support and habituation of use is only within reach with targeted planning and teamwork. As a team, we determine potential opportunities in daily life, the community, at home, school and work. Resource December Core
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AAC Strategy of the Month
AAC Language Lab provides great resources for our core words each month. So many free materials and even more when you sign up for an affordable subscription.
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Success Stories in Middle School
Click the "Power of FUN" link below to read about a student in 6th grade that did not use her communication device.
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Core Words for Daily Routines
Hang this poster to support staff in using core words throughout the day!
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100 Places to Visit
A 40 minute trip around America.
Get your students thinking about the possibilities to go, look, play and live!
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I Spy...Seasonal
https://www.andnextcomesl.com/2016/09/free-fall-harvest-themed-i-spy-printable-for-kids.html
This mom has some great ideas for playing I Spy with a seasonal theme.
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Color by Symbol
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Color-by-Symbol-Hidden-Images-BUNDLE-3084238
Fun twist on an old favorite!
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6 Songs About Animals
https://www.yoremikids.com/news/best-kids-songs-about-animals
These are not your typical animal songs!
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Accessible Chef
Kerri Berard, SLP shares:
This resource helps support cooking through visual task analysis. You can create simple recipes or look through a library of recipes.
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Asking and answering about the weather
Help students ask questions, answer yes/no and summarize.
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Conversation Script
Use this script to help your students learn the back and forth of a conversation.
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What I need for the weather
From the given items, do you know what the weather is? Print out for an engineered book.
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Somebody Help Me
Thanks to a brilliant teacher that clipped this song and video together for some fun with Community Helpers. Enjoy!
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Adapted Book for December Core Words
Created by: Kyra Wouters
Easy print and make book for core word practice!
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Clothes Pin Core Words-December
Easy print and go task using clothespins to match icons. Thanks Kyra Wouters!
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Create a Snowman Scene
CLICK HERE have students direct actions using core words:
Put on
get that
go there
new color
more
***Great for following directions too!
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Candy Cane Experiment
Use your core words to describe what happens in this seasonal science experiment!
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Clothes Pin Core Words
Use this quick print and go activity to practice Core Vocabulary
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Perspective Taking
Use these materials for working with students on "perspective". View optical illusions slides to think about how things are not always as they appear. Challenge students to think and talk about issues that others see differently. Watch this video and work through scenarios to think about how other people feel.
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Predictable Chart
Here is an idea for a Predictable Chart activity using Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes. Predictable charts are terrific for practicing core vocabulary and developing literacy skills!
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Items "I need" for different weather
March is a good time to talk about weather, because it changes almost every day!
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Mardi Gras Mask
Use core words: make, different, good, wear
Core phrases: put on, me like, we different, she look good
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Thanksgiving Dinner Plate
A great activity to do pre and post Thanksgiving to allow students to tell their "dinner story". What did you "put on" your plate? Did you choose "this" or "that"? Did you "help make"?
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Shadows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SN1BOpLZAs
Have you ever wondered why your shadow is longer sometimes and shorter others? It turns out it all has to do with that marvelous big ball of light in the sky; The Sun!
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Observe Fall Leaves
Take a nature walk to have each student find a Fall Leaf. Use this sheet to make observations (beginner level).
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Scientific Process Chart
This cool chart complete with icons is easy to make and helps to talk about the scientific process using CORE! WFL icons and photo of chart with icons
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Amusement At The Park
Any park we go to this summer will be amusing. A great place to practice Core Vocabulary words like "go, fast, slow, up, down, good, I like". From photos we can later talk about the fun we had with other family and friends. We can draw and write about what made us laugh at the park--very amusing!
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Mahalo!
A song about giving thanks for everything! Special thanks to our FWISD music therapists for the graphics and music.
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SummerTime
Share this book with your family to read and talk about all the places we can go in the summer. Add you own photos, drawing and writing to continue the fun.
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Sunscreen Sequence Strip
If you plan to be outside then plan to wear sunscreen! Use this sequence strip to teach sunscreen application.
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Hubbard's Cupboard
CLICK HERE FOR GREAT RESOURCES
Check out these terrific emergent reader books to download and print. Notice all the core words! Try using the format for predictable chart writing.
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Leap Frog
Try this fun game to measure how far we leap! Add it to your beach theme. How many starfish can you jump? How many sand shovels can you jump? Can you leap over a sand pail? Over a beach ball? Have FUN! CLICK HERE Ready Rosie Leaps
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A Friend A Day In May
Terrific idea from SeeSaw to "end the year with a bang" and celebrate! CLICK HERE
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Tumblebook Suggested Books
Try these titles at www.TumbleBookLibrary.com
Wild Ideas by Elin Kelsey
Pirate Island Treasure by Marilyn Helmer
Dinosours on the Beach by Marilyn Helmer
Sink or Swim by Valerie Coulman
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Cool Idea!
Check out Maryanna Russell, PPCD teacher! She mofified the WFL Core Board to hang inside the library door when her class goes to read and select books.
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Emotions Flip Chart
Turn your energy from negative to positive. Make faces to talk about feeling up and down, good and bad, when and why!
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Big Problem or Little Problem
How much energy does this problem need?
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PrAACtical Activities with Core!
Check out these fun easy activities from Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU. Do your students like shaving cream or therapy balls? Do they drive a wheelchair? These work for whole group and small group. Enjoy!
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Where's the Monkey?
Use the positions communication board with Where's the Monkey SONG. After the song use an object such as a puppet or stuffed animal and play hide and seek using your position words to find it. Have FUN!
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Actions
A fun song with icons to shake out the wiggles and practice using action words. You and your students can find more actions "run", "skip", "crawl", "turn", "wave", "point", "fold" and keep on singing! Action Song
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Family Photos
We can use family photos to talk with our children at all ages. Talk about who they are, what they are doing and when you will see them again. Core Words: look, think, love, live, he and she.
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Countdown to Special Day
This is a great idea to countdown to special events and holidays with your class. Also for families to do at home for math practice!
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12 days of Christmas
Watch and listen to the 12 days of Christmas. Allow students to comment on the gifts in the song. View the PPT-A Modern 12 Days of Christmas and share ideas. Have students write thier own modern 12 Days of Christmas to send home for the break! View additional Christmas stories at www.tarheelreader.com
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Bookcase Organizing
Do you have a reading center or a book shelf in your classroom? Have you ever considered using it as an opportunity to communicate? Try this with your students. What core words will you use? go/get/put/more/help/that/on/here/good/finished
CLICK HERE to view activity
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Animal Friendships
Add photos of the class to the last page to discuss making and keeping friends.
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Animals stopped in time
Interesting photos of animals frozen in time. Discuss habitats and ecosystems that could cause these events. CLICK HERE
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Follow the Leader
This PPTX template will get you started to build a story to talk about the leaders we follow that are all around us. You can customize with personal photos of principals, teachers, parents and students. Use your core words to talk about how leaders are good or bad. How they help. Who we like and what they do.
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Books are FUN!
Click HERE to watch a wordless video of
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
This story highlights how engaging reading can be. Let students comment about the video with core words they have learned.
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Suggestions for Predictable Charts
Predictable Chart Writing is a great way to develop reading and writing in response to things we do throughout the day. Reading and writing skills make our students better communicators, so pair up your core words with predictable charts! Get more details about Predictable Chart Writing HERE
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What can I do?
Have fun talking about and DOing all the amazing things at camp! Have students talk about what they want to DO. Share with families to talk about at home!
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Exploring Outside
Click here to see how we can explore outside and talk about it together
Exploring nature is one of the best things about going camping. Watch this pair talk about the wonders they discover outside. Try it in your backyard or at the park.
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Easy outside game
Click Here for easy outside game
Use core words to play this game; in, out, get, watch, play, more, turn
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Dishes That Deliver
"Dishes That Deliver" is a series of recipes and cooking tips to boost the nutritional value of a snack, mini-meal, side dish or main meal. Share your recipes and tips by emailing debbie.manning@fwisd.org or kellie.cullen@fwisd.org .
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Packing for Camp-- an autobiography
Discuss what to pack for camp and have fun personalizing this story for students to take home and practice with their family!
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WATCH OUR GARDEN GROW
Sprouting beans in a bag is an easy indoor garden activity to do at home or at school. Since beans are quick growing, it will be easy to "watch" them grow for the rest of May. We can "talk" about what they look like as they grow, describe what they smell like, feel like, taste like--all in the month of May. Fun for all ages with family and friends.
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What do we find?
My elementary age students went for a walk outside. We took photos of what we found so we could practice our WOW "find" in the classroom all week. Make your own story with students. Print them out as a fun idea to send home for families to talk about.
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Where do you live?
Everything around us has a place to "live". Where do birds live? Where do leaves live? What lives in the ground? Where do you live?
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Talk About Nature!
Enjoy this story about what we can get, find and watch in Nature. Now we get to talk about it!!
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Who's Been Here?
Help students learn to describe with this fun guessing game
