Description: Teach students to answer "when" questions in lighthearted, four-part stories that let them choose the story ending. The flexible materials also target sequencing, inferring, predicting, parts of speech, and literacy skills. The program has eight Matt and Molly stories with colorful story cards, sentence strips, lesson plans, and specialized teaching strategies. Each story is a launch pad for interactive language activities in: -sequencing -inferring, predicting, and reasoning -"when" questions -narrative language and descriptive language -literacy and text comprehension -parts of speech nouns verbs pronouns adjectives adverbs prepositions conjunctions interjections The program has materials and lesson plans for eight stories and includes: -40 sturdy, full-color 8½" x 11" -sequence pictures (five for each story) -48 large-print sentence strips per story (six for each story) -a teacher manual with: .two-day lesson plans for each story .take-home page with mini-story .pictures for each story - teaching techniques and adaptations for nonverbal children - progress chart You can easily adapt the lessons and materials to meet the needs of individuals, small groups, or an entire class. The lessons are infused with teaching techniques especially for children with autism and PDD. The activities include: -describing the people, places, and things in the story pictures -learning new vocabulary concepts -predicting the next event in the story -answering a "when" question and choosing the story ending -retelling the story -identifying the missing picture -matching sentence strips to pictures -acting out the story -identifying parts of speech -take-home story sheets

Publisher: Linguisystems

Year Published: 2012

Grade: Age 8 - 12

Keywords: Language activities; picture stories; WH;