Picture Resources: Lotto games + picture cards + tips to help your child understand and use more words based around a familiar bedtime routine.
These resources have been designed for use with the ‘Goodnight Moon’ book, but all the activities can also be used without the book.
There are 3 lotto boards, each with 6 black and white pictures of objects featured in the book. Each board has a matching set of 6 colour pictures held together with an elastic band. All 3 sets of colour pictures come in a purple wallet for the activities described in the ‘Tips’ sheet.
The picture cards are of a mouse and a bear, laminated in non-reflective Matt plastic and attached to a baseboard with Velcro dots, that are compatible with PECS products (Picture Exchange Communication System).
There are 2 place boards of a bed and a chair, with Velcro dots positioned so the mouse/bear can be place either ON or UNDER the bed/chair.
There is a pack of 8 picture instruction cards, featuring the mouse and the bear in each position (e.g. the mouse under the bed, the bear on the chair), laminated in non-reflective Matt plastic and held together with an elastic band.
The resources are designed to help children understand and use language at the 1 word level for ‘HELLO’ and ‘GOODNIGHT’ and for the objects that can be seen in this bedroom (e.g. Hello LIGHT, Goodnight HOUSE), and at the 2 and 3 word level including the prepositions ON and UNDER (e.g. put the MOUSE on the BED; put the BEAR UNDER the CHAIR).
Finally there is an A4 advice sheet, laminated in non-reflective Matt plastic, with tips for using the resources to boost your child’s speech and language, gained from my 30 years work as a Speech and Language Therapist (now retired).
The picture resources and advice sheet all fit into an A4 clear popper bag, labelled with a brown parcel tag ,for convenience and durability.
This resource extends the language-boosting potential of a beautiful book, with picture games that work well for children with delayed language, for children with autism, and for children learning English as an additional language.
