Concept Builders

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Pictures and Activities Based on the Boehm Inventory

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TARGET GROUP: 4-8 years

Help children explore 43 basic language concepts through active participation in fun activities and conversations they’ll hold with you. Photocopy a concept board and pictures for each language concept (i.e., wet/dry). Then, let the child choose which side of the board to place the pictures by asking questions for each picture- “Is this object wet or dry?”

Provide opportunities for children to use interactive dialogue and questioning in conversations with parents, teachers, caregivers, paraprofessional, and speech-language pathologists. Detailed concept-building dialogues are provided for use with students who need additional support.

Among other objectives, you’ll teach children to:

• Respond to simple directions
• Use appropriate vocabulary for all of the concepts
• Correctly use nouns, verbs, modals, and prepositions
• Answer questions based on a simple sentence

Cover a broad range of basic language ideas, including:

• Opposites-such as wet/dry, tall/short, heavy/light, together/apart
• Order concepts‹such as first/second, first/last, in order
• Number words and simple fractions-such as equal, pair, whole/half, as many as
• and many more

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