The Core Word Recipes: All Year AAC, ELA & Cooking Bundle includes 9 adapted cooking activities and a full implementation manual to help teachers, SLPs, paraprofessionals, and families create meaningful communication opportunities through fun, hands-on recipes. Each recipe is designed to support AAC users, speaking students, young learners, and students with special needs by combining visual recipe directions, repeated core word targets, food and equipment vocabulary, activity-based action words, partner tips, conversation starters, and an included recipe activity board. Students can participate using speech, their robust AAC system, the included activity board, or a combination of communication tools during large group, small group, classroom, therapy, or home-based cooking activities. The bundle includes 9 seasonal and engaging Core Word Recipes: End of Summer Sandwiches
Pumpkin Pie in a Cup
Teepee Dirt Cups
Reindeer Chow
Graham Cracker Polar Bears
Valentine’s Wafer Cookies
Shamrock Pizza
Thundercake Minis
Garden Dirt Cups The included Core Word Recipes Implementation Manual gives adults clear guidance for using the recipes to support communication, literacy, sensory exploration, participation, and classroom engagement. The manual includes implementation directions, AAC modeling tips, suggestions for speaking students and emerging communicators, safety and classroom management considerations, vocabulary appendices, frequently asked directions, and recipe-specific focus vocabulary and core word targets. These recipes are not just about making a snack. They are designed to give students real reasons to communicate, comment, request, answer questions, describe what they see and taste, interact with peers, and participate in a shared multisensory learning experience.
