Want
Aided Language Input (ALI)
Ideas for communication opportunities throughout the day
Requesting
Want
Want now
That's the one I want
Commenting
She wanted that
Looks like you want more
Asking/Answering Questions
What did he want?
Which one do you want?
Want it
Social Interactions
Want ___ please
Tell me what you want
Protesting
Don't want more
No want this
I want it to stop
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
Have student choose what they "want" to do
If something is out of reach and students are trying to get to it, model "want" (sometimes you need to be a detective to figure out what a student wants!)
Semi-Structured/Group Activities
Ideas on how to use the core word in a group activity
Talk about occupations students "want" to be when they grow up
Ask students where they "want" to go for a class field trip, and what they would "want" to do there
Create a sensory bin and have students pick which items they "want" to put in it
Suggestions of Predictable Chart Writing sentence frames
I want to be a ___ when I grow up.
We want to go to ____.
Links to interactive Boardmaker activities created to target the core word