Prepositions & Position Words Adapted Book | Troll Colors | SLP SPED Autism

Prepositions & Position Words Adapted Book | "Where Is Troll Hiding?" with Color Identification

Teach prepositions, position words, AND colors all at once with this engaging troll-themed adapted book! "Where Is Troll Hiding?" uses a fun, repetitive rhyming format to give students hands-on practice identifying where the troll is hiding in relation to colored gates — building receptive and expressive understanding of prepositions while reinforcing color identification.

Perfect for speech therapy (preposition AND color goals!), special education, autism classrooms, AAC users, and emerging communicators, this interactive adapted book uses repetitive predictable text and matching pieces to engage students in multiple language goals at once.

★ TWO SLP/SPED skills in one resource: prepositions/positional concepts + colors!

★ 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

What's Included:

• 1 Interactive Adapted Book — "Where Is Troll Hiding?"
• Position/Preposition matching cards for every page
• Colored gate imagery for color reinforcement
• Repeating predictable rhyming text for language building

Sample Verse from the Book:

"Where is Troll hiding?

Where can he be?

He's IN FRONT OF the blue gate,

As we can plainly see!"

Prepositions & Position Words Targeted:

• on
• between
• in
• under
• over / above
• behind
• next to / beside
• in front of
• And more positional concepts!

Colors Reinforced in This Book:

Red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, and more — each gate throughout the book features a different color to reinforce color identification while teaching prepositions!

Skills Targeted in This Troll Adapted Book:

• Prepositions (receptive AND expressive understanding)
• Position words / positional concepts — on, in, under, behind, beside, in front of
• Spatial concepts and spatial reasoning
• Color identification and reinforcement
• "Where" questions — answering where Troll is hiding
• Following directions with prepositions
• Predictable repetitive rhyming text — supports emerging readers and AAC users
• Receptive and expressive language
• Vocabulary development
• Listening comprehension
• Matching skills (interactive pieces)
• Visual discrimination (colors and positions)

How to Use This Troll Prepositions Adapted Book:

A teacher, SLP, or paraprofessional reads the adapted book aloud while students follow along, identifying where Troll is hiding in relation to the colored gate on each page. Students match a position/preposition card to each page as the teacher reads — combining preposition learning with color reinforcement.

Ways to Use:

• Small group speech therapy (preposition AND color goals!)
• 1:1 instruction for targeted preposition practice
• Whole group language lessons
• Literacy centers and independent workstations
• AAC modeling (modeling preposition + color use on communication devices!)
• Following directions practice
• Color identification lessons
• Fairy tale or fantasy thematic units
• Spring/summer activities (trolls love springtime adventures!)
• Language intervention for emerging communicators

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

See Adapted Books Below

Complete Adapted Books Collection

This adapted book is now part of a "Growing Bundle!" You can find it here:

Preposition Adapted Books Growing Bundle

For more hands-on spring, summer or troll themed activities, please see the following links:

Hands-On Spring Activities

Hands-On Summer Activities

Hands-On Troll Activities