Sentence Building – What color is it? | Build a Sentence Activity for Autism

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What Color is it? Interactive Book for Autism and Special Education, Speech Therapy.

Forming sentences is very important for young learners or those with autism. This activity uses real-life pictures for easy recognition of common objects and sight words as sentence starters. It is perfect for early readers. This is also an activity to practice identifying the attributes of what and the color of a group of items. There are 30 groups of items. The student will match the corresponding picture to answer the questions – What color is it? There are 2 ways to use this file:

1. Print the pages and use the pages as a “cut and paste” activity. The students will use glue to paste the correct answers where necessary.

2. Print all the pages on photo paper and laminate them. Cut out the pages containing the colors, words and pictures. There are 2 types of pages that serve as boards for the types of answers – “what?”, “what color?”. Use Velcro on the back side of each card and in the middle of each blank square on the boards as well as on each square containing the questions. Thus the activity can be reused as many times as needed.

*** Students can build 2 types of sentences:

-using cards with words and hints (colored words and pictures for the object words), then

-using cards with only words, as shown on the title page.

This is a great matching activity for K and 1st gr and for students with autism.

I got a question about the use of the 2 boards with “What?” and “What color?” and no pictures on them. How to use them? Here is the explanation. There is mentioned in the description that there are 2 types of pages that serve as boards for the types of answers – “what?”, “what color?”. So, before starting to build sentences you might want to verify if your students know the difference between colors and objects, so they will use the cards with colors for the page with “What color?” and the cards with objects on the page with “what?” This is the first step. Then you use the same cards for building sentences. Thus, you get 2 activities – one is sorting colors and objects, the second is forming sentences.