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There's No Place Like Home:  AAC Storybook Companion

Based on the Ronojoy Ghosh children's book, this unit includes multiple activities to teach language, communication and literacy.  Includes:

This fun unit focuses on habitats and the core words "where" and "here." It includes the following:

  • Sight word/core vocabulary cards
  • Story Questions: 2 levels of differentiation!
  • Sort It Out- Arctic & Farm Animals
  • Word Play: Story Cloze Activity
  • Story Sequencing
  • Let's Color: Following directons
  • AAC Partner Guides: Core Word Boards for communication practice

Commotion In The Ocean: AAC Storybook Companion

Make ocean-themed storybook reading more interactive, accessible, and communication-rich with this AAC-adapted book companion for Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae. This literacy companion is designed for students with complex communication needs, emergent language learners, and special education classrooms using AAC, visual supports, and adapted literacy instruction.

This set gives you ready-to-use activities for building vocabulary, story recall, sequencing, shared writing, phonological awareness, and communication during repeated storybook reading. Activities are designed to support partner modeling, student participation, and LOTS of opportunities to communicate before, during, and after reading.

What’s Included

  • Core word cards for: in, look, like, you, go, and not
  • Picture vocabulary page with ocean animals and story-related words
  • Anchor chart with real-photo ocean vocabulary
  • 4-step story sequencing activity
  • Level 1 story recall questions with picture answer choices
  • Level 2 story questions on one-page format
  • Level 3 open-response story questions
  • Story retell characters and items
  • Story retell mat
  • Sorting activity: animals who swim / animals who walk
  • Sorting cards with ocean animals
  • Syllable awareness activity
  • Beginning letter sound activity
  • Coloring page with simple directions
  • AAC-adapted fluency practice with repeated story lines:
    • “Let’s take a look.”
    • “Who’s hiding there?”
  • Shared writing frame: “I see a _____ in the ocean.”

Skills Targeted

  • AAC participation during shared reading
  • Core word modeling
  • Ocean animal vocabulary
  • Story sequencing and retell
  • Answering story recall questions
  • Sorting and categorizing
  • Syllable counting
  • Beginning sound awareness
  • Following simple directions
  • Shared writing and sentence completion
  • Commenting, labeling, and turn-taking

Perfect For

  • AAC users
  • Preschool and elementary special education classrooms
  • Speech therapy
  • Adapted literacy groups
  • Self-contained classrooms
  • Mixed communication groups
  • Ocean, summer, animal, or science-themed units

This resource is not just a worksheet packet. It is designed to help partners model language, invite communication, and give students multiple ways to participate using speech, AAC, gestures, pointing, or visual choices.

AAC Storybook Companion: Commotion In The Ocean

An AAC-adapted book companion for Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae, designed to support shared reading, language expansion, and active student participation. Includes core word cards, ocean vocabulary, story sequencing, recall questions, sorting activities, sound awareness practice, fluency lines, a coloring page, and a shared writing frame. Perfect for special education classrooms, speech therapy, and adapted literacy groups.

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