Apple Prepositions Adapted Book | Position Words Colors | SLP SPED Autism

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

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

Perfect for back-to-school AND fall apple units in speech therapy, special education, autism classrooms, AAC users, and emerging communicators!

★ 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 Wormy Hiding?"
• Position/Preposition matching cards for every page
• Colored apple imagery for color reinforcement
• Repeating predictable rhyming text for language building

Sample Verse from the Book:

"Where is Wormy hiding?

Where can he be?

He's ON TOP OF the green apple,

As we can plainly see!"

Prepositions & Position Words Targeted:

• on top of
• under / below
• between
• behind
• next to / beside
• in front of
• over / above

Skills Targeted in This Apple Adapted Book:

• Prepositions (receptive AND expressive understanding)
• Position words / positional concepts — on top of, under, in, behind, beside, in front of
• Spatial concepts and spatial reasoning
• Color identification and reinforcement
• "Where" questions — answering where Wormy 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)

How to Use This Apple Prepositions Adapted Book:

A teacher, SLP, or paraprofessional reads the adapted book aloud while students follow along, identifying where Wormy is hiding in relation to the colored apple 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:

• Back-to-school activities (apples are a back-to-school classic!)
• Fall apple unit lessons (September-October peak!)
• Small group speech therapy (preposition AND color goals!)
• 1:1 instruction for targeted preposition practice
• Whole group apple/fall language lessons
• Literacy centers and independent workstations
• AAC modeling (modeling preposition + color use on communication devices!)
• Following directions practice
• Color identification lessons
• Johnny Appleseed lessons
• Apple thematic units

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

Complete Adapted Books Collection

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

Preposition Adapted Books Growing Bundle

For more hands-on apple themed activities, please see the link below:

Hands-On Apple Themed Activities