Building Sentences Adapted Book | Zoo Animals Real Photos | SLP SPED Autism

Building Sentences Adapted Book | "What Do We See At the Zoo?" with Real Photos

This building sentences adapted book teaches simple sentence construction, zoo animal vocabulary, and the "What" Wh question through engaging real photos and three skill-building activities. Perfect for speech therapy, special education, and autism classrooms.

★ Three goal areas in one resource: sentence building + Wh questions + zoo vocabulary

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

Sample Text from the Book:

"What do we see at the zoo?

We see a ________ (hippo). Yes, it's true!"

Sentence Builder: "We see a hippo at the zoo."

What's Included:

• 1 Adapted Book with REAL PHOTOS — "What Do We See At the Zoo?"
• 1 Set of Sentence Building Strips (three levels of differentiation!)
• 1 Cut and Glue Sentence Activity

Three Levels of Differentiation (Sentence Builder Strips):

• Level 1: Choose 1 word to complete each sentence (for emerging learners)
• Level 2: Choose 2 words to complete each sentence (intermediate)
• Level 3: Build the complete sentence (advanced)

This leveled format meets students at every sentence-building skill level.

Skills Targeted:

• Building sentences (simple sentence construction)
• Wh-question comprehension — "What" questions
• Zoo animal vocabulary
• Subject-verb-object sentence structure
• Reading comprehension
• Receptive and expressive language
• Real photo visual support
• Fine motor practice (cut and glue worksheet)
• Independent work skills

How to Use This Adapted Book Set:

The teacher or therapist reads each page, and students solve the riddle and complete the sentence by choosing the correct zoo animal that answers the question. After the adapted book, students extend learning with:

• Sentence Builder Strips (at the appropriate level — 1 word, 2 words, or full sentence)
• Cut and Glue Worksheet for fine motor + sentence-building practice

Students working at an independent level can read and complete the book and sentence builder strips at a literacy center or workstation.

Ways to Use:

• Small group speech therapy (sentence building + Wh questions IEP goals)
• 1:1 instruction for targeted sentence construction
• Whole group zoo/language lessons
• Literacy centers and independent workstations
• Zoo thematic units
• Animal science lessons
• Zoo field trip pre-teaching
• AAC modeling (subject-verb-object sentence frames)
• ELL/ESL zoo animal vocabulary instruction

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 spring, or zoo themed activities, please see the following links:

Hands-On Spring Activities

Hands-On Zoo Activities