Words of the Week Finished
Training Video
1. Every day show a calendar. Talk about the days of the month and the days of the week. Talk about what day it is today. Does today "finish" the week? Does it "finish" the month?2. It is important to match behaviours with FINISHED, e.g. if you have a student that will just get up and leave an activity, you might say “Oh, you are leaving, you are saying that you are FINISHED”, while pointing to FINISHED on their AAC system.
3. It is easy to model FINISHED throughout the day, as activities are completed: finished reading the book, finished eating lunch, finished the painting, finished the song, finished the game, at pack up time etc.
4. Have races, and model FINISHED at the end of the race.
5. Get a puppet to eat a whole plate of plastic food, and model FINISHED when it has eaten all the food.
6. Search “finish the drawing” in Google Images for many fun drawing worksheets that have missing parts and need FINISHING!
7. While making something (cooking, craft, anything!), take photos at the start, and when it is finished (and the steps in between if you like). While looking at the photos, model language around what you did, including talking about the finished product- “Look, it’s FINISHED! You FINISHED it!”. Use the photos to make a class book in an ebook creator such as Pictello. Also use photos for predictable chart writing.
8. There are many different types of vehicles, and they all go at different speeds for different purposes. Collect pictures of different types of vehicles (car, skateboard, airplane, tank, rowboat, motor boat, wagon, mail truck, etc.). Talk about how some vehicles can move faster than others, and why they might go at the speed they do. Then hold up two or three vehicles and ask, in a race, "which" will "finish" first?
Ideas credited to Assistiveware Core Word Classroom
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