Back to School Movement Book | Gross Motor Imitation | OT SLP SPED Autism
Product Description
Back to School Movement Book & Cards | Gross Motor, Following Directions & Imitation Skills
This back-to-school movement book and movement cards get your students moving while building gross motor skills, following directions, imitation skills, AND school vocabulary. Use during circle time, as a warm-up, before or after transitions, or as a time filler that gets students' wiggles out.
★ Perfect for: Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Occupational Therapists (OTs), Adaptive PE Teachers, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), ABA Therapists, Paraprofessionals, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade
Sample Text from the Book:
"Can you skip to the school?
Can you tiptoe down the hall?
Can you act like a pencil?
Can you stand straight and tall?
Can you open like the scissors?
Can you squiggle like the glue?
Can you glide like a crayon?
Can you fold like paper too?
Can you march to the playground?
Can you bounce like a ball? A
nd when the school day's over?
Can you tiptoe down the hall?"
What's Included:
- 1 Back to School Movement Book
- Movement Cards — for additional movement practice
- School-themed vocabulary integrated throughout
Skills Targeted:
- Gross motor skills
- Motor planning
- Imitation skills
- Following directions
- Body awareness
- Back-to-school vocabulary
- Receptive language
- Listening + acting
- Sensory regulation
- Hand-eye coordination
How to Use This Movement Book:
The teacher reads through the book and models movements as students imitate them. Students can also choose a movement card and practice each movement individually.
Ways to Use:
- Back-to-school circle time / morning meeting
- Warm-up activities
- Brain breaks and movement breaks
- Before or after transitions
- Time-filler activities ("get the wiggles out!")
- Whole group instruction
- Small group language activities
- Occupational therapy sessions (gross motor + motor planning + imitation!)
- Adaptive PE lessons
- ABA therapy (imitation skill targets!)
- Sensory regulation (movement-based input)
- AAC modeling (action vocabulary!)
- ELL/ESL action vocabulary instruction
This movement book is also bundled with an Adapted Song Book so that you can have both music and movement. You can find that here:
Back to School Music and Movement Books
If you're students enjoy music and movement, they may also enjoy my Adapted Song Books. You can see the complete bundle here:
For more hands-on Back to School activities, please see the link below:
