LANGUAGE MODELING

Guess the verbal model from the AAC model

100

"sing + loud"

You're singing loud

I'm singing loud

I want you to sing loud

200

"jump + high"

I like to jump high

You jumped high

I jumped high

I want to jump high

The _____/he/she jumped high

300

"fish + orange + red"

That orange and red fish!

The fish is orange and red

I like the fish that's orange and red

Turn the verbal model into an AAC model

100

"The giraffe is very big"

giraffe + big

giraffe + so + big

big + giraffe

200

"That is a blue circle"

blue + circle

that + blue + circle

300

"That car is going fast"

car + fast

car + go + fast

Consider the Blunder

100

Teacher: "look, the elephant has a trunk. Now you say, "elephant has a trunk!"

modeling without expectation means we don't need them to repeat everything we say

200

*Student needs help with their backpack*

Teacher: "Hey Richie, Mr. Harry do it. Mr. Harry help."

talking about yourself in 3rd person can sound infantilizing at a certain age -- and it's a missed opportunity to model use of I/you pronouns

300

Teacher: "Lily, write pen."

Missed opportunity to model prepositional phrases such as "with the"

Modeling Purposes

100

Teacher: "I'm cutting up your food."

This is an example of self-talk where we can narrate our own actions and experiences

200

Teacher: "you like those blueberries!"

This is an example of parallel talk where we can provide language for their actions and experiences

300

Student: "I want one, two, free doughnuts"

Teacher: "You want three doughnuts!"

This is an example of recasting where we repeat what they've said with the error corrected (speech, grammatical, or word-use)

Miscellaneous May

100

Who is the patron Saint of May Center Chicopee School? 

Hint: he resides in the basement.

Saint Joseph

200

Who was the first student in May Center history to drive to school?

Brett

300

What curse word did Apt A's HM let slip last week?

F bomb