Duck for Turkey Day – Perspective Taking & Point of View Activities

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Grab your copy of Duck for Turkey Day by Jaqueline Jules, print these activities, and teach your students about perspective taking and point of view in a way they’ll enjoy

Taking the perspectives of different characters and making logical inferences about what characters are thinking are feeling is critical for your students’ reading comprehension, as well as comprehension of movies, their own social interactions, and even school subjects like Social Studies.

This StoryWhys Spotlight Series book companion develops perspective taking & social inferencing, and expands feelings & emotions vocabulary to develop your students’ social comprehension.

For a step-by-step guide about how to use this resource, watch this video.

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THIS BOOK COMPANION?

8 Feel/Think/Say pages for perspective-taking and social comprehension

Thoughts & Feelings Cutouts for examining the points of view of different characters

Feelings Thermometers for developing richer vocabulary for feelings and emotions

Supporting research

Language goals (so you’ll always know the specific goals you’re targeting)

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This StoryWhys Spotlight Series book companion is a subset of a broader collection of comprehensive StoryWhys book companions that were created for speech language pathologists to target many higher-level language and critical thinking goals with a single book.

StoryWhys is a one-of-a-kind, literature-based system that combines high-quality storybooks with book companions that contain a set of clear and consistent visual/graphic supports, and that targets the following skill areas:

Comprehension and use of Tier 2 vocabulary

Critical thinking and higher-level comprehension (categories, cause & effect, compare/contrast, main idea & details, etc.)

Perspective-taking/social inferencing with specific feelings/emotion vocabulary

Comprehension of figurative language

Morphological knowledge

Complex/compound sentence building

Sequencing and formulation of organized narratives

And, the best part is, the more you use StoryWhys, the better it works!

Each book companion also contains a list of supporting research, so you can be confident that you are providing high-quality therapy, and teaching skills that really carry over.

*The author of this product is not affiliated with the author or publisher of Duck for Turkey Day by Jaqueline Jules. This product is designed to be used as a book companion for Duck for Turkey Day, not as a standalone product.*

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