Build language and social skills with a library theme!! This activity follows my restaurant, grocery store, and post office activities currently in my TpT store. Like those?! You will like this one too! This is a great packet if you like to do life skill themes!
In this packet:-Sorting Items: Students can sort the pictures by whether or not they will find them in a library.
-Compare/Contrast: Students will complete the Venn Diagram to compare/contrast school library vs. public library. Students will also complete a Venn Diagram to compare/contrast the internet vs. library.
-Library Vocabulary Matching: Cards contain a vocabulary word with its definition. You can use these to teach vocabulary and for memory matching games to practice. A worksheet is provided to review.
-Following Directions: Print and laminate the bookshelf and place it in the center. Print and laminate the library items and place them next to or around the bookshelf mat. Read the direction cards to your students and let them use the mat and items to complete them.
-Scenario Cards: Students can practice expressing what they would do if they are in the situations provided. A board game is provided to use as a reinforcer/motivator.
-Create Your Own Library Card: Students will get to use their creativity and design their own library cards! Students can share their work to promote language and conversation.
-The Librarian Has: This activity can be used as a file folder activity. Print and glue onto a file folder the male and female librarians. For each item card, students can use the sentence strips provided to express which one has the item. This activity can also be used to work on “who” questions, pronouns, and possessives.
-Library Scavenger Hunt: If you are fortunate enough to go on a field trip to a library, use this worksheet to have students know what to look for. They can check off all the different items they locate! Who can locate more??
-Parent letter: Feel free to send this letter home to let parents know about your library theme. This will help with carryover of skills.
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For those that have been loving my Going To A Grocery Store Pack and Going To A Restaurant Pack have been requesting MORE MORE MORE! Well, today is your lucky day! The next edition is available!!!
In this MASSIVE pack:-Sorting Items: Students can sort the pictures into whether or not they will find them in a post office.
-Who Would Say It?: Students can sort sayings into categories (customer or post office clerk).
-Post Office Vocabulary Matching: Cards contain a vocabulary word with its definition. You can use these to teach vocabulary and for memory matching games to practice. A worksheet is provided to review.
-Following Directions: Print and laminate the mailbox and place it in the center. Print and laminate the post office items and place them next to or around the mailbox mat. Read the direction cards to your students and let them use the mat and items to complete them.
-Scenario Cards: Students can practice expressing what they would do if they are in the situations provided. A board game is provided to use as a reinforcer/motivator.
-Write Your Own Postcard: Several postcards are provided with images. Students can write a postcard to a friend/relative/pen pal as if they visited the places shown on the postcards. This is a great time to be creative and act out what they would do and say! You can also give each student a different postcard with a different image. Students can read their responses to the group and let their peers try to guess where they went.
-The Mail Carrier Has: This activity can be used as a file folder activity. Print and glue onto a file folder the male and female mail carriers. For each item card, students can use the sentence strips provided to express which mail carrier has the item. This activity can also be used to work on “who” questions, pronouns, and possessives.
-How To Write A Letter & Envelope: Visuals are provided on how to write a letter and address an envelope.
-Post Office Scavenger Hunt: If you are fortunate enough to go on a field trip to a post office, use this worksheet to have students know what to look for. They can check off all the different items they locate! Who can locate more??
-Parent letter: Feel free to send this letter home to let parents know about your post office theme. This will help with carryover of skills.
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Many of you have enjoyed my Going To A Restaurant: Language & Pragmatic Skills pack. I've gotten requests "will you make more!?" Yes!! My goal for this school year is to have monthly community themes for my life skills students. I plan to use my restaurant one and now I have a grocery store pack!!
This pack has similar activities and format to my restaurant one. But I added a couple new ones!!
In this pack:-Sorting Items: Students can sort the pictures into whether or not they will find them in a grocery store.
-Sorting Items: Students can sort the grocery store items into the sections they may find them in. Not all sections were included but the most common.
-Grocery Store Vocabulary Matching: Cards contain a vocabulary word with its definition. You can use these to teach vocabulary and for memory matching games to practice. A worksheet is provided to review.
-Following Directions: Print and laminate the shopping cart and grocery bag mats and place them in the center. Print and laminate the groceries and place them next to or around the mat. Read the direction cards to your students and let them use the mats and groceries to complete them.
-Role Playing Fun: Two grocery lists were provided, one with pictures and one without.
-Role Playing Script: Use this script to introduce how to act and what to say when going to a grocery store.
-Scenario Cards: Students can practice expressing what they would do if they are in the situations provided. A board game is provided to use as a reinforcer/motivator.
-Make Your Own Grocery List: Students can create their own lists to use during role playing activities. Great for eliciting conversation, problem solving skills, and more. Feel free to provide students with grocery store ads from newspapers. Let your students look for coupons to help them make a list and save money too!
-The Shopper Has: This activity can be used as a file folder activity. Print and glue onto a file folder the male and female shoppers. For each item card, students must use the sentence strips provided to express which shopping has the item. This activity can also be used to work on “who” questions, pronouns, and possessives.
-Who Can Name More?: You can use this worksheet as a competition between students. You can set a timer and allow students to write as many items they can recall for each section of a grocery store. Points can be achieved for each category. The student with the most points is the winner!
-Parent letter: Feel free to send this letter home to let parents know about your grocery store theme!! This will help with carryover of skills.
I hope you love this pack as much as the other one!!! Click HERE to access this pack in my TpT store!!! Stay tuned for more community activities like this one!
