Chicken Life Cycle Adapted Book | Spring Sequencing | SLP SPED Autism

Chicken Life Cycle Adapted Book | "This Is How a Chicken Is Born" with Sequencing Worksheet

Teach the chicken life cycle with this engaging adapted book and companion worksheet! "This Is How a Chicken Is Born" walks students through the simple 4-step life cycle of a chicken — from egg to chick to adult — building science vocabulary, sequencing skills, and reading comprehension all at once.

Perfect for elementary science (spring science units!), special education, autism classrooms, AAC users, and emerging communicators, this interactive adapted book uses repetitive predictable text and matching pieces with built-in sequencing words ("First," "Next," "Then," "Last") to make learning the chicken life cycle accessible to all learners.

★ Perfect for: Elementary Science Teachers, Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Life Skills Classes, ELL/ESL Teachers, Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade

What's Included:

• 1 Interactive Adapted Book — "This Is How a Chicken Is Born"
• Matching pieces for every page
• End-of-book sequencing activity — students sequence the complete life cycle
• 1 Companion Worksheet (cut and glue format) for independent practice
• Sequencing words built in — First, Next, Then, Last

Sample Text from the Book:

"FIRST there is a chicken. NEXT it lays eggs in a nest and sits on them for many days. THEN a chick forms in the egg and hatches. LAST the chick eats and grows a lot. When it becomes an adult chicken, the life cycle starts over again. This is how a chicken is born."

Chicken Life Cycle Stages Covered:

🐔 Adult Chicken → 🥚 Eggs → 🐣 Hatching Chick → 🐤 Growing Chick → 🐔 Adult Chicken (cycle continues!)

Skills Targeted:

• Chicken life cycle identification and sequencing
• Life cycle stages (egg, chick, adult)
• Sequencing words — First, Next, Then, Last
• Story sequencing
• Science vocabulary (egg, hatch, chick, nest, adult)
• Farm animal vocabulary
• Reading comprehension
• Cause and effect (egg → chick → chicken)
• Receptive and expressive language
• Vocabulary development
• Independent work skills
• Fine motor practice (matching pieces, cut and glue worksheet)

How to Use This Adapted Book:

A teacher, SLP, or paraprofessional reads the adapted book aloud while students follow along, matching each step of the life cycle on each page. At the end of the book, students sequence the complete chicken life cycle in order. Then extend learning with the cut-and-glue worksheet for independent practice.

Ways to Use:

• Elementary spring science lessons
• Animal life cycle units
• Farm animal units
• Easter/spring thematic lessons
• Small group speech therapy (sequencing, vocabulary, science language goals!)
• 1:1 instruction
• Whole group science read-alouds
• Literacy or science centers
• Independent workstations
• AAC modeling (sequencing language frames)
• Send-home homework (worksheet included!)

For more hands-on sequencing or life cycle activities, please see the links below:

Hands-On Sequencing Activities

Hands-On Life Cycle Activities

For more hands-on spring themed activities, please see the following link:

Hands-On Spring Activities