Who
Aided Language Input (ALI)
Ideas for communication opportunities throughout the day
Requesting
Tell me who
Who play
I want to be the one who goes with you
Commenting
I like people who ___
Those who are ___
Asking/Answering Questions
Who's calling?
Who are you going with?
Who's there?
Who's feeling ___?
Social Interactions
Who would have thought
Guess who is coming
Protesting
I don't want to tell you who
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
During attendance talk about who is here and who is at home
Play guess who!
When reading books talk about what is happening. Ask "who is____"
Ask students "who" they want to help them, "who" they want to play with
Semi-Structured/Group Activities
Ideas on how to use the core word in a group activity
Play the icebreaker game, Great Wind Blows (anyone who___)
Talk about personal characteristics and have students guess "who"
Talk about significant figures in history. Who are they? Who did they help?
Talk about community helpers. Who does different tasks? (e.g., who picks up the garbage, who helps us when we get hurt, who brings our mail?)
Suggestions of Predictable Chart Writing sentence frames
Who helps ___?
Who has __?
I wonder who is ___ (adjective)
Links to interactive Boardmaker activities created to target the core word