Forest Animals Adapted Book | Inferencing & Core Words | Real Photos SLP SPED

Build inferencing, core word vocabulary, and forest animal vocabulary with this interactive, adapted Forest Animals Peek and Seek Book featuring real photos! Students listen to a clue, peek through the hole to see just a small part of the hidden photo, make their best guess about the forest animal — then turn the page for the big reveal. A fun, hands-on way to target important speech and language IEP goals.

Students get lots of repetition with the core words "what," "you," "I," and "see," and the real photos support students who benefit from realistic images.

📖 Sample Pages

Look! Seek! Take a peek! What do you see in the forest?

👉 (Students peek through the peep hole and make an inference from the part of the photo they can see.)

(Turn the page for the reveal:)

Deer! They eat lots of leaves and plants. Yes, it's true. I see deer. Yes I do!

Look! Seek! Take a peek! What do you see in the forest?

👉 Skunks! We know them by their smell. Yes, it's true. I see a skunk. Yes I do!

(See photos for more examples.)

📦 What's Included

• 1 interactive Peek and Seek adapted book — forest animals theme
• Real photos of forest animals revealed page by page
• Peep-hole "peek" pages for guessing, with full-photo reveals
• Print-and-go PDF — ready to use after cutting the peek holes and laminating

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Inferencing and making inferences
• Core words: "what," "you," "I," "see" (AAC-friendly)
• Forest animal vocabulary
• Listening comprehension
• Receptive and expressive language
• Answering "what do you see?" questions
• Predicting from visual clues
• Following along in a book
• Joint attention and turn-taking

📚 How to Use

• Read the clue aloud, have students peek through the hole and guess, then turn the page to reveal the full photo
• Use in small group, circle time, or 1:1
• Great as a "time filler" before or after a transition
• Set up in a literacy or library center all year long
• Model the core words "what," "you," "I," "see" for AAC users
• Pull for speech therapy to target inferencing and core-word vocabulary
• Use during a forest animals, woodland, winter, or habitats unit

💛 Perfect For

• Speech-language therapy sessions (SLPs)
• Special education classrooms (SPED)
• Autism classrooms and ABA programs
• AAC users and core word instruction
• Preschool, PreK, and Kindergarten
• Language and literacy groups
• Forest animals, woodland, and habitats units
• Winter units
• Early childhood and ECSE
• Homeschool language practice

🌟 Why Teachers & SLPs Love This Resource

• Interactive peek-and-reveal keeps students engaged and guessing (Students love these books!)
• Targets inferencing AND core words in one book
• Real photos support students who benefit from realistic images
• AAC-friendly core word focus (what, you, I, see)
• Works for small group, circle time, centers, and 1:1
• Useful all year long
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🎁 Save with the bundle! This book is part of the Peek and Seek Books Bundle — a huge, fun set of inferencing books (and a great value).

🔗 Explore the full collection: Complete Adapted Books Collection

🦌 More hands-on winter and forest animal favorites:

• Hands-On Winter Activities
• Hands-On Snowman Activities
• Hands-On Forest Animals Activities