Thanksgiving Build a Turkey Adapted Book and Craft Bundle Speech & SPED

This Thanksgiving "Build a Turkey" Adapted Book and Craft Bundle for autism, speech therapy, and special education will be a great addition to the fall season.

Students will practice identifying colors, shapes, body parts, quantity, etc...

Use this activity as a whole group or individually. You can repeat both the book and craft several times and encourage tons of communication with the sentence prompts included.

Adapted Book- (**This is not a new book, just a new craft and bundle. :) )

This Thanksgiving themed “Build a Turkey” adapted book is an interactive way to practice identifying colors, numbers, and basic concepts using repetitive text.

Students choose the shape of the eyes, beak, color and type of hat, shoes, and wings, as well as the quantity of red, yellow, and brown feathers. Each part is attached to the turkey body page for students to build their own unique turkey. After choosing each part of the turkey, students will fill in a sentence by choosing the correct icon describing the part by color, type, or quantity.

For example: “My turkey has an [open] beak.”

“My turkey has a [black] hat.”

“My turkey has [2] red feathers.”

This book can be used over and over to create different turkeys.

Visuals are included in the sentences to help identify words while reading the sentence aloud.

Included:

-cover page

-2 turkey body pages (with or without body part labels)

-8 book pages with fill in the blank sentences and visuals

-8 pages of turkey parts (eyes, beak, legs, hat, wings, red, yellow, and orange feathers)

- 25 choice icons with pictures

Craft and Communication Activity

This Thanksgiving or Fall "Build a Turkey" Craft and Communication activity for Autism, Speech Therapy, and Special Education is an interactive way to practice identifying colors, shapes, body parts, and emotions, quantity using repetitive text.

Students choose the shape, style, or emotions of the turkey parts. Then color, cut, glue, and match onto the turkey template. 2 templates are included- blank and with shadow matching prompt. 2 versions of "turkey parts" are also included- one for students making choices and one without. After choosing each part, students will fill in a sentence using a sentence strip prompt to say the shape, color, or part of the turkey . Sentence strip prompts and icon choices include only the parts of the turkey, color, and then other describing words (shape, emotions, quantity, open/closed etc...) You can use the sentence prompt page as a group or have one for each student.

If you choose, you can add the parts labeling page. There are 2 templates included (with and without shadow matching prompt.) You can also just match the parts icons onto the turkey. (eyes, beak, feathers, etc...)

•Use the sentence prompt pages to talk about the parts that you put on the turkey.

(just parts, colors, shapes/emotions, mix.)

•“My turkey has eyes.”

•“My turkey has a red hat.”

•“My turkey has 4 feathers.”

•“The color is orange.”

This activity can be used individually or as a whole group. The sentence strip prompts can be used as a single page or in a file folder format.

Included:

-Turkey template (2 versions: with and without shadow matching

-Turkey parts coloring pages (2 versions- with or without attribute choices)

-prompt strips and icons

- color: "It is [color]

- parts: "My turkey has a [beak]"

- attributes: "My turkey has [6] [feathers].

- Turkey parts labeling icons

- scarecrow parts icons

- name label "_________'s Turkey"