Name: _______________________________________
Date: ________________________
ACTIVITY PLANNING FORM
Use this form to consider core and fringe vocabulary that you can model while teaching the student.
Think about what you will say, which of those words you will model on the student’s AAC system,
and what tasks you will be doing while modeling. For some students, you may only model 1-3 total
words (e.g., “open”, “close”, “go”). For those early-communicator students, use this form to think
about different things you could do while modeling those words and different ways you can expose
the student to models and help them learn the concept.
General activity (e.g., “science: water cycle” or “morning meeting”):
What best describes the student’s receptive language (understanding)?
Understands mostly single words
Understands 1 – 3 word phrases
Understands 1 – 5 word phrases
Understands conversational speech
What best describes the student’s expressive language (what the student says using speech, unaided
AAC, and/or aided AAC)?
Uses mostly single words
Uses 1-3 word phrases with equal frequency
Uses 1-5 word phrases with equal frequency
Uses conversational phrases frequently
WHAT I WILL DO
e.g., I will take all of the shapes out of the shape
sorter and model vocabulary each time I take a
shape out.
e.g., When I assign student jobs during morning
meeting, I will model the word “turn” and use
that word as I tell each student their job for the
day and have them come put their name up on
the job board.
WHAT I WILL SAY
(put things you will say in lowercase, things you will say and
model in ALL CAPS)
e.g., I will label the shape and use the word “out”
as I take it out, and I will model “out” on the
student’s AAC system as I say it out loud:
“square OUT”, “diamond OUT”, “circle OUT”
e.g., I will say the student’s name, and tell them it
is their “turn”, and then tell them their job. I will
point to “turn” on the AAC system when I call
each student up. I will use my tone of voice and
volume to make sure the student’s name, word
“turn” and job are a little more pronounced than
the rest of what I say: “Carl, it is your TURN to
wipe tables”
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Date: ________________________