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This resource serves as a great way to teach speech language therapy students or English language learners different ways to answer WHEN questions. The explicit instruction of Seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall), Months, and Holidays is essential for children to be able to answer certain WHEN questions, while also providing opportunity for vocabulary development, sequencing, categorization, and complex sentence production. These visual aids, task cards, sentence model strips, sorting worksheets, and coloring worksheets will walk you through the instruction of beginner WHEN questions step-by-step.

Included in this resource:

Task Cards/Flash Cards can be used to drill WHEN questions that elicit Season, Month, and Holiday responses. They can also be used as memory games or paired with motivating board games. These task Cards include:

Seasons Flash Cards

Winter:

• Hot Chocolate
• Snowman
• Ice skates
• Sledding
• Santa
• Girl in hats and gloves
• Snow shovel
• Snow cloud

Spring:

• Bunny
• Butterfly
• Grass growing
• Tree growing
• Garden
• Chick hatching
• Easter egg
• Raining

Summer:

• Ice cream
• Sun glasses
• Swimming
• Beach
• Flip Flops
• Hot/sweating
• Sun screen
• Lemonade

Fall

• Candy apple
• Corn
• Football
• Scarecrow
• Raking Leaves
• Pumpkin
• Halloween costumes
• Turkey

Holiday Flash Cards

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• Valentine's Day
• St. Patrick's Day
• Easter
• Mother's Day
• Father's Day
• Juneteenth
• Fourth of July
• Halloween
• Thanksgiving
• Kwanzaa
• Hanukkah
• Eid al-Fitr
• Diwali
• Christmas
• New Year's Eve
• Presidents' Day
• Memorial Day
• Labor Day
• Indigenous People's Day
• Colombus Day

Month Flashcards:

• National Food Month Flashcards - 12 Months

No Prep Worksheets

• Season Coloring Pages - Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall
• Season Coloring Sorting Pages - Winter/Spring, Spring/Summer, Summer/Fall, Fall/Winter, Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
• Season Cut and Paste Sorting Page

Teaching Visuals

• Seasons - Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall Scenes
• Seasons - Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall Items
• Months - Holidays organized by months
• Sentence Frames for WHEN Questions sentence structures

Teaching Materials:

• 1-page teachable explanation of different ways to answer when questions.
• 1-page teaching script to explain how to answer when questions by stating the Season, Month, or Holiday
• 1-page list of WHEN questions to pair with Holiday task cards.

Excellent Resource for Mixed Groups

Grammar: Naturally elicit past, present, and future tense verbs.

Vocabulary: Practice labeling seasonal objects and actions. Produce synonyms and antonyms of verbs.

Wh- questions: Ask who, what, where, when, why questions about seasons, holidays, and months

Sequencing: Sequencing Seasons, Holidays, and Months.

Sentence production: Elicit full sentences with details using task cards and sentence visuals.

Categorization: Categorize by Season, Time, Holidays.

Following directions: Follow directions containing sequential and temporal concepts such as before, after, while, earlier, later.

** Perfect resource for Teacher Observation or Speech Therapy Observation**

Make learning English fun with this simple, comprehensible input English lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and make sure that your English lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Mark loves his red pants, but all of the other kids laugh at him when he wears them. So he tries other pants - but they still laugh. Could the problem be something other than his questionable fashion choices? There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• he gets dressed
• ugly
• I don't understand
• On sale

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this English Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

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This Ultimate WHEN Question Bundle walks you through how to teach every type of WHEN question. Target Wh-Question language comprehension Goals by answering When Questions in the following ways: Time of the Day, Time on a Clock, Seasons, Holidays, Months, Days of the Week, Dates, Year, Cause & Effect, and more. Teaching scripts are included for the concepts that are tricky to explain. Teaching visuals can be paired with engaging task cards that were designed to elicit natural production of answers to all different WHEN questions.

The bundle includes Task Cards, No Prep Worksheets, Visuals, & Sentence Strips for the types of WHEN Question answers:

• Time of the Day - Morning, Afternoon, Night
• Time on a Clock
• Seasons
• Holidays
• Months
• Days of the Week
• Date
• Year
• Cause & Effect (using "when" in the answer)
• Before, After, While, During
• Past, Present, & Future Concepts
• Mixed Sentences

This resource was designed as a start-to-finish guide to teach all WHEN questions. Amazing resource for mixed groups and speech therapy/speech pathology observation. Wonderful ESL/ENL product to teach ELLs English Language Learners. Perfect for mixed speech therapy groups.

Make learning English fun with this simple, comprehensible input English lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and make sure that your English lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Dad is watching the kids while mom's at work, but they keep ending up getting hurt. Will they make it through the day, or will disaster strike? Find out in this CI video lesson for German learners. There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• My _____ hurts
• I broke my
• You should
• You were doing

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this English Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

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Make learning English fun with this simple, comprehensible input English lesson plan and story. This lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and make sure that your English lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Annette  loves cheese. She REALLY loves cheese - so much that she smells like cheese. Her boyfriend Peter doesn't like cheese at all. How can Ingrid reconcile her love for cheese with her love for Peter? There are four targeted vocabulary structures that are used multiple times throughout the story. The targeted structures are:

• smells bad
• I don't love you anymore
• a lot of cheese
• She puts

This very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. The video is just over 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in this English Comprehensible Input Lesson:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the story

• Comprehension question worksheet

• "Who said it?" worksheet

• Story retell worksheet

• Answer key

Click HERE to join my mailing list and get a free article about adapting a textbook to CI!

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Make learning English fun with these simple, comprehensible input English lesson plans and stories. Each lesson plan includes a story with targeted structures that can be repeated to give your students lots of repetitions. Comprehension activities to use after the story will allow you to engage your students and make sure that your English lesson is truly comprehensible input.

Each story and lesson has a set of target structures that are used again and again in the story.  The target structures for the lessons are:

The Ugly Pants: he gets dressed, ugly, I don’t understand, on sale

You Smell Bad: smells bad, I don’t love you anymore, a lot of cheese, she puts

The Big Dog: ate, she asks, doesn’t believe her, he was hungry

It hurts!: my ____ hurts, I broke my, you should, you were doing

Each very simple story is told in two different ways. There is a printable text version, and an animated mp4 version. Tell the story as you watch it (pause if you want to stop and discuss or storyask!), or just watch it for comprehension. Each video is around 5 minutes long, with pause time for students to read the text. There is a second version of the video with only the illustrations - no text - so you can watch it and do story retells. With novice low and novice mid learners, you can tell the story as is. For novice high learners, you can add more details or write a parallel story. You could even use this story at higher levels by having students retell the story in the past.

Here’s what you’ll get in these Italian Comprehensible Input Lessons:

• Links to the videos both with and without the text

• A printable pdf version of the stories

• Comprehension question worksheets

• "Who said it?" worksheets

• Story retell worksheets

• Answer keys

Click HERE to join my mailing list and get a free article about adapting a textbook to CI!