Polar Bear Sentence Builder Adapted Book | Action Words Winter | SLP SPED Autism

Polar Bear Sentence Builder Adapted Book | "What Is Polar Bear Doing?" with Action Words, Sentence Building & Sentence Comprehension

This polar bear-themed sentence builder book teaches action words, sentence building, and sentence comprehension through engaging matching pieces and hands-on activities. Three skill activities in one resource — perfect for speech therapy, special education, and autism classrooms during winter units.

★ Three goal areas in one resource: action word identification + sentence building + sentence comprehension

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

Sample Text from the Book:

"What is Polar Bear doing?

What can it be?

He's ________ (eating some ice cream) as we can plainly see."

What's Included:

• 1 Interactive Adapted Book — "What Is Polar Bear Doing?"
• Matching action word pieces for every page
• Sentence Builder Strips — students combine three pictures to form a complete sentence
• Sentence Comprehension Activity — students choose the picture that best illustrates a given sentence

Skills Targeted:

• Action words / verbs identification
• Sentence building (combining subject + verb + object)
• Sentence comprehension — matching sentences to pictures
• Subject-verb-object sentence structure
• Present progressive verbs ("is ___ing")
• Reading comprehension
• Receptive and expressive language
• Predictable text support
• Following directions
• Independent work skills

How to Use This Sentence Builder Book:

In a small group, the teacher or therapist reads the story as students follow along and match the correct action to each page. After the book, students extend learning with two additional activities:

• Sentence Builder Strips: Students put three pictures together to form a complete sentence
• Sentence Comprehension Activity: Students read (or listen to) a sentence and choose the picture that best illustrates it

Students working independently can complete any or all of the activities at a literacy center or workstation.

Ways to Use:

• Small group speech therapy (action words, sentence structure IEP goals!)
• 1:1 instruction for targeted sentence building practice
• Whole group polar bear / winter language lessons
• Literacy centers and independent workstations
• Winter and polar animal thematic units
• Arctic animal lessons
• Reading intervention with sentence-level instruction
• AAC modeling (subject + verb + object sentence frames!)
• ELL/ESL sentence structure instruction
• Language intervention for emerging communicators

This Sentence Builder Book is now a part of a growing bundle! You can see that bundle here:

Sentence Builder Books Growing Bundle

If your students enjoy adapted books, there are many more in my collection. Please see my Adapted Books Collection below.

Complete Adapted Books Collection

For more hands-on winter, snowman, penguin or polar bear activities, please see the links below:

Hands-On Winter Activities

Hands-On Snowmen Activities

Hands-On Penguin Activities

Hands-On Polar Bear Activities