Up
Aided Language Input (ALI)
Ideas for communication opportunities throughout the day
Requesting
Want up
Pick me up please
I go up
More up
Can we get up?
Commenting
It up
Zip it up
It go up
I put my hands up
Asking/Answering Questions
What goes up?
Why (does) it go up?
It go(es) up because
Social Interactions
What's up?
Up top (high five)
Protesting
Not up
Not like up
Not want (to) go up
Not get up
Songs and Videos
Listen for the core word in the song or video and model it on your communication tool each time you hear it
Books for Shared Reading
Listen for the core word in the book and model in on your communication tool each time you hear it
Naturally Occurring/Individual Activities
Ideas on how to use the core word in a naturally occurring opportunity
Dance party
jump up
pick up your foot
hands up
On the playground- going "up" and down playground equipment
Play with airplanes and fly them “up” in the air
Model “up” during the clean-up song
Semi-Structured/Group Activities
Ideas on how to use the core word in a group activity
Make predictions during science experiments. E.g. when testing if items will float or sink, talk about if the object will go “up”
During gym or playground time, play a game where you put balls on a parachute and lift it “up” to make the balls go "up"
Bounce balls or objects “up” using a trampoline, peanut ball, catapult, etc.
Suggestions of Predictable Chart Writing sentence frames
____ went up. (sink or float experiment)
Go up the ____.
Throw ____ up.
Links to interactive Boardmaker activities created to target the core word