What
Aided Language Input (ALI)
Ideas for communication opportunities throughout the day
Requesting
What do you want?
What eat?
What do?
Commenting
What?
What did you do?
Asking/Answering Questions
What want?
What did you do on the weekend?
What do you like to do?
Social Interactions
What do you have for lunch?
What's up?
S/he did what?
What the
What's your name?
Protesting
What?!
What have you done?!
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
Discuss what happened on the weekend
Modified I spy (Do you see what I see? I see something ___)
During any child led activity, asking "what" is the next step
Semi-Structured/Group Activities
Ideas on how to use the core word in a group activity
Play What time is it Mr. Wolf?
Make hypothesis about what will happen during a science experiments (what will happen? What is next?)
Discuss personal characteristics that make you feel happy (e.g., What makes me feel happy is making friends smile, What makes me feel happy is playing outside)
What will I be when I grow up? - discuss what different occupations do after reading the story "What Will I Be" by Jayla Joseph
Talk about what superpower you would have after reading the story "What's My Superpower" by Aviaq Johnston
Suggestions of Predictable Chart Writing sentence frames
What makes me feel happy is ___ .
What I see is ___ .
I see what (the) ___ does/did.
Links to interactive Boardmaker activities created to target the core word