Sasha from theautismhelper.com walks through four sentence-building literacy centers for early learners and children with autism. The 40 centers include Sentence Scramble, Sentence vs. Not-a-Sentence sorting, Sentence Spinners, and Who/What/Where sorting, each with worksheets and instructions for classroom use.
Hi, this is Sasha from theautismhelper.com, and this is a product preview of 4 Sentence Building Literacy Centers for Early Childhood or Children with Special Needs. I use these sentence building centers in my autism classroom all the time, but they are perfectly appropriate for 1st, 2nd graders or other children with special needs. Um, there are 10 of each center, and there are 4 different ones, so there's 40 different centers total. And each center comes with a corresponding worksheet. The first center is a sentence scramble. You want to laminate this whole page and cut out these pieces and then keep this all in one baggie. This is one center. Then the students will have to unscramble the words to make the sentence, and then they can write the sentences on this corresponding worksheet. There's 10 different ones of these, all with different types of sentences. The next one is sorting sentence vs. not a sentence. Similar concept as last one, laminate this whole page, cut out all pieces, and keep this in a baggie. This is one whole set. And then they can on here write sentences and not a sentence coordinating with this work center. This has really helped some of my kids because we could really focus on why these are not sentences, which was great to work on discrimination. So there's 10 different ones of these. And then next are these sentence spinners. So you can laminate this whole page, cut out these circles, and cut out the arrows, and then use a a brass fastener through the middle is what I used, and then to spin it. It doesn't spin perfectly, but I think it works pretty well to spin. And once— and so the student will spin each one and then make a sentence. And my kids really like making the silly sentences. So, "The girl is swinging at McDonald's." I mean, that one isn't really silly, but you know what I mean. They like to make silly ones. You could also have them make the ones that make sense. Either way, as long as they're kind of getting the concept of the different parts of the sentence. Then once they make the sentences, they can write them on this worksheet. There are 10 different sentence spinners, and I like to keep these, all 3 spinners in one baggie together so it's kind of all set. Then the last center is sorting who, what, and where. The different parts of the sentences based on what question you would be asking about them. Laminate this whole page, cut out the pieces, and store each page in one baggie. Then here is the corresponding worksheet. Writing "who" up here and then all of the "whos," the "what," and the "where." This has also been a really great one that I think has really, really helped some of my kids to focus on the "wh" questions, which can be really challenging for students with autism. So yeah, that's it. Those are the 4 different sentence building centers. This was a product preview from theautismhelper.com.
