Gina from The Autism Helper shows how to use large core language boards during storytime with adapted books. Mark target words like who, what, eat, and my turn on a vinyl board with Post-its, then have students touch symbols and place picture pieces to practice turn-taking and build engagement.
Hi everyone, this is Gina from The Autism Helper. I am here to show you one-handed how you can use core boards with, um, storytime books. These of course are with The Autism Helper because I love these two books. They're adapted books, and obviously I have a mega core board for us today. It's printed on a vinyl banner. I believe they got it made at Staples. This is our county core board that we use countywide. Of course, if a student has a dedicated device, they're using that as well, but all of our kids, um, if they have these in their classrooms, they know how to use them with other students. It doesn't matter if they have a language delay or not. Everyone knows how to use them and it really creates a really cool classroom environment. But other than that, what I like to do with core boards, no matter what size they are, is I like to take the story and obviously read through it and figure out what core board, excuse me, core language I wanna target. So for this book, I make a little Post-it and I just talk about the words that I can highlight within the book. Of course, there's a ton that you can do, but these are the ones with this story with, um, this other group that I would want to target. So who, what, eat, my turn, and your turn. Because obviously they have already made— Sarah's made adapted pieces to go with this book, so that's when you can practice the my turn, your turn. Come up and put the pieces, um, match them to the book. Um, obviously who, and then what did the old lady eat? And I love it because this core board has them on here. Um, I also take some fabric tape, or if you have highlighter tape, washi, whatever you have, you can highlight the words that you want to target in your lesson. It just makes it easier for you to remember where it is and for your students as well to find it quickly on the board. But again, there's no rush when doing this. Um, and I also love the Farmer, Farmer, Who's in the Tractor book, of course, by the lovely Sarah again on the Autism Helper. Again, I like to write out what target words I'm using. So in this book, it's who's in the tractor, and then you also get to talk about where in the tractor are they. And who goes in the tractor. So I love this book for targeting who and where, and then also they talk about who is first in the tractor, so a great time to work on those numbers. And I also love working on the your turn, turn, your turn, my turn, um, with kids when they can come up and put the pieces, or if I'm doing small group, because obviously we have all the pieces back here. So that's just the way that I incorporate the language board in with storytime. It's so much fun, especially with these really large boards, especially for the little kids. They like to come up, they like to touch the symbols and interact with the board and help each other. Have fun learning!
