Sasha from theautismhelper.com presents an adapted "I Spy" book that helps less-verbal students practice attributes and inference. Students hear a clue, then use Velcro to match the right picture from four options. The repetitive verse lets echolalic children participate while building higher-level thinking skills.
Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and this is a product preview of my I Spy, an adapted book to work on attributes and inferences. So I really wanted to have a way to have my students who are less verbal to still be able to work on higher-level concepts, and adapted books have been my go-to way lately. So I found this really cute clipart, and I knew that I had to use it with the I Spy concept. I think that using a repetitive verse in your books will help your kids that have less verbal skills kind of respond to that, and then they're kind of reading along with you. So each page starts out, "I spy with my little eye." So you'd be surprised how many kids, even if the ones that are a little bit echolalic, will soon start to repeat that if you do this book a lot. And that's pretty cool, and I think parents and teachers like seeing that a lot too when they're able to respond to that. So this book works on different attributes that students have to make an inference and match the clue. So each book, like I said, follows the same pattern and then has a little bit of a clue, like something that is orange. And the setup of this book, there are 4 blank boxes on the bottom and here are the pieces. So each question has 4 options. So the student will pick from the 4 options the correct answer. So you'll put the 4 options right here and then they'll say, "I spy with my little eye something that is green," and then they'll pull up the picture to right here. So you'll laminate these, hard Velcro in each box, soft Velcro on the back of the pieces, and it's all stored very nicely in this book, which I love. So they'll just pull up whichever option they do to the green. So it's not all colors, it gets a little trickier, but the colors are the most simple attribute to work on. So there are some color ones, then there's size, something that is small, something that is big, and then there's some shape ones, square, circle, and then temperature, so things that are cold and things that are hot. So here are the pictures, so, and I kind of gave a little, um, guide here on the side for when you cut these out because I know sometimes I get you know, cutting crazy and then soon I don't remember which pictures go with which page. So like, for example, these are the response options for orange, so they'd pick the pencil. These are the options for red, green, yellow. Here's the ones for little and big, so it's kind of obvious but not quite. So these are a little bit trickier, so they really do have to work on making those inferences. It's not a direct match. Here's the response options for the shape ones and the temperature. So I think it's gonna be really interesting to see some of our less verbal kids really what skills they do have and what they can show by having these picture options. It's always very interesting to me what kids are able to show that they can actually do. Book setup instructions are included in here too. So yep, this was a product preview of "I Spy," an adapted book to work on attributes and inferences.
