Enjoy these Valentine's Day materials, highlighting themes of love and friendship. This lesson plan includes book options, activity, and considerations of goals & objectives.
Age group: grades K-4. *Craft modifications listed if candy is not allowed in the classroom.
Books
Love Monster by Rachel Bright: A googly-eyed monster searches for love in a town that appreciates cute and cuddly and is met with surprise just as he was about to give up.
The Night Before Valentine's Day by Natasha Wing: Learn about the fun and sweet ways these children are celebrating Valentine's Day.
Meesha Makes Friends by Tom Percival: Making friends doesn't come easily for Meesha but meets a peer who sees past her differences and connects through shared interests.
Receptive/Expressive Language:
WH- questions
Vocabulary words, attributes, and concepts
Identify and construct story grammar elements
Inference
Story retell
Activity: Valentine's Lollipop
Hands-on activity to help enhance the theme of friendship. Download the instructions here, which includes modifications.
This craft can be used to address production of speech sounds or receptive/expressive language goals in spontaneous speech or structured trials.
Don't forget to download the leaf template! This template includes pre-written messages and blank leaves to address morphosyntactic goals, speech sounds at word and sentence level, etc.
Communication and AAC. Use activity materials for joint attention skills, requesting and making choices, expressing yes/no, AAC navigation and selection, and more.
Social and pragmatic skills. Use activity-related topics for topic maintenance and include opportunities for initiation and appropriate interaction as child gifts lollipops to group peers.
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