People at School Adapted Book Unit | Community Helpers Real Photos | SLP SPED

This People at School Unit uses real photos to teach students about the helpers at their school — teachers, and the other people who help us every day. A complete back to school unit, it includes an interactive adapted book, interactive bulletin board posters, a "Who Goes With What" matching mat, three differentiated "Big Flips" matching books, and a set of Wh- Question cards. Perfect for back to school AND community helpers units.

🍎 Perfect for:

• Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting vocabulary, Wh- Questions, matching, and sentence comprehension goals
• Special Education teachers building back to school and community helpers units
• Autism classrooms needing real-photo, low-distraction visuals for generalization
• Occupational Therapists working on fine motor skills (Velcro manipulation)
• ABA therapists running discrete trial vocabulary and matching programs
• Early Childhood, Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade teachers
• ELL/ESL teachers building school and community vocabulary
• Homeschool families with young learners

🏫 What's Included:

• 1 Adapted Interactive Book with matching pieces
• 1 Set of 10 Interactive Bulletin Board "People at School" Posters
• 1 "Who Goes With What" Matching Mat (match each person to the object they use)
• 3 Sets of Big Flips Matching Books (3 differentiated levels)
• 1 Set of People at School Wh- Question Cards (20 questions)

Big Flips — Three Differentiated Levels:

• Level 1: People at school — picture-to-picture matching
• Level 2: People at school — picture-to-word matching
• Level 3: People at school — picture-to-sentence matching

🎯 Skills Targeted:

People at school / community helpers vocabulary (teacher, principal, nurse, bus driver, cafeteria worker, librarian, custodian, and more), Wh- Questions, sentence comprehension, picture-to-picture matching, picture-to-word matching, picture-to-sentence matching, "who goes with what" association (person to object), receptive and expressive language, listening comprehension, real-world recognition (real photos), following directions, and fine motor skills.

Sample Text:

"There are many people at school who help us.

Teachers are at school.

Teachers help us learn reading, writing, and math."

Sample Wh- Questions:

• Who helps us learn to read?
• Who helps us learn to draw?
• Who teaches us how to throw a ball?
• Who drives us home from school?
• Who gives us lunch choices?

How to Use:

The teacher or therapist reads the adapted book aloud while students match the correct people-at-school pictures to each page and learn who each helper is and how they help us. Extend the lesson with the Big Flips matching books for differentiated practice across three student levels. The "Who Goes With What" matching mat builds association skills (matching each person to the object they use). The interactive bulletin board posters can display in your classroom AND be printed a second time on metal rings as a workstation activity. The Wh- Question cards provide language extension.

🚌 Ways to Use:

• Back to school and beginning-of-year units
• Community helpers thematic units
• Speech therapy small group sessions
• Wh- Question and matching
• Independent work systems (TEACCH)
• ABA discrete trial vocabulary training
• Interactive bulletin board displays
• Workstations on metal rings (poster set)
• Whole-class back to school read-aloud
• ESL/ELL school and community vocabulary lessons

If your students benefit from activities using real photos, there are many more in my collection. You can find them at the links below:

Sorting Mats With Real Photos

Sorting Our World File Folder Games

Adapted Books w/ Real Photos

For more hands-on back to school, fall or apple themed activities, please see the following links:

Hands-On Back to School Activities

Hands-On Fall Activities

Apple Themed Activities