Thanksgiving Adapted Book Unit Real Photos | Vocabulary Wh Questions | SLP SPED
Product Description
This Thanksgiving Adapted Book Unit uses real photos to teach basic Thanksgiving dinner vocabulary across multiple hands-on activities. The complete unit includes an interactive adapted book, interactive bulletin board posters, a non-exact matching mat, three differentiated "Big Flips" matching books, and a set of Thanksgiving-themed Wh- Question cards — a full week of plug-and-play November lessons.
🦃 Perfect for:
- Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) targeting Thanksgiving vocabulary, Wh- Questions, matching, and sentence comprehension goals
- Special Education teachers building Thanksgiving and November thematic 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 seasonal English vocabulary
- Homeschool families with young learners
🍁 What's Included:
- 1 Adapted Interactive Book with matching pieces
- 1 Set of 11 Interactive Thanksgiving Dinner Bulletin Board Posters
- 1 Non-Exact Matching Mat — Thanksgiving Foods
- 3 Sets of Big Flips Matching Books (3 differentiated levels)
- 1 Set of Thanksgiving Dinner Wh- Question Cards
Big Flips — Three Differentiated Levels:
- Level 1: Picture-to-picture matching
- Level 2: Picture-to-word matching
- Level 3: Picture-to-sentence matching
🎯 Skills Targeted:
Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving dinner vocabulary (turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pie, etc.), Wh- Questions, sentence comprehension, picture-to-picture matching, picture-to-word matching, picture-to-sentence matching, non-exact matching (real-world generalization), receptive and expressive language, listening comprehension, following directions, and fine motor skills.
Sample Text:
"It's time for Thanksgiving dinner.
Let's eat some turkey.
It's time for Thanksgiving dinner.
Let's eat some mashed potatoes."
How to Use:
The teacher or therapist reads the adapted book in a small group while students follow along and match the correct pictures to each page. Extend the lesson with the Big Flips matching books for differentiated practice across three student levels. The non-exact matching mat builds critical generalization skills — matching the same object even when it looks slightly different. 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 for small groups and IEP goal data collection.
🍂 Ways to Use:
- Thanksgiving and November thematic units
- Speech therapy small group sessions
- Wh- Question and matching IEP goal data collection
- Independent work systems (TEACCH)
- ABA discrete trial vocabulary training
- Interactive bulletin board displays
- Workstations on metal rings (poster set)
- Whole-class Thanksgiving party or read-aloud
- Take-home homework and tele-therapy practice
- ESL/ELL Thanksgiving culture and vocabulary lessons
If your students enjoy working on sorting with real photos, they may also enjoy the Sorting Mats With Real Photos Set or "Sorting Our World" File Folder Games Bundle found below:
Sorting Our World File Folder Games
For more hands-on activities using real photos, please see the link below:
Hands-On Activities With Real Photos
For more fun, hands-on fall, turkey or Thanksgiving themed activities, please see the links below:
