Go Together Giraffes

I have been working hard preparing stuff for my students.  There are tons of skills I like to start with.  Many speech and language students have vocabulary goals.  Once students start understanding categorization, I like to move onto associations.  It helps when they can demonstrate what items go together to help them chunk information.  I created a whole giraffe themed pack of activities to help introduce, practice, and review this concept!

This download is available on Teachers pay Teachers for a reasonable low price. 

What will you get with this download:

• Go together matching cards
• Name things that go together cards
• What does not belong cards
• Review matching worksheet

Go together matching cards: all you have to do is print, glue onto card stock or index cards and laminate!  You can use these to introduce concept and then practice while playing matching games!

Name things that go together cards:
I created game cards that prompt students to name as many things as they can.  You can instruct students to name 2,3,4 or name as many as they can!  You can use these cards with any board game or reinforcing activity.  All you have to do is print and laminate!  Students can draw a card out of a hat or Ned's Head.  One student can name as many items as they can or students can go around the group and name until they cannot name any more!  This helps with word finding and understanding that things go together!

What does not belong cards:

When students start to understand how items together, they can transfer this skill to understand when something does not belong!  Can they identify the item?  Can they verbally express it in a sentence?  Can they defend their answers and respond to "why does it not belong?"  All you have to do is print and laminate!  You can use these cards with any game or activity.

As you know, I love to end a lesson with a review worksheet to complete in the session, at a following session, or send home for homework (or "home practice").  I created a matching worksheet using the same vocabulary used throughout the activity pack.  The graphics are same to keep with theme and to motivate!  How cute are the giraffes?!

To learn more about this download, visit TpT!  Let me know what you think!  I would love to hear from you!  I hope this helps as you plan for the start of a new school year!