Following Directions with Basic Linguistic Concepts: English and Spanish

DESCRIPTION Ages 5+ The focus of this workbook is to improve the ability to follow instructions while also developing basic concept knowledge. It can be used with students of any age who need to increase their understanding of concepts and/or their ability to follow instructions. The pictures include numbers, letters, animals, and shapes in black, white, and grey. The worksheets can also be used to evaluate English and Spanish speakers’ ability to understand linguistic concepts and follow directions of increasing length and complexity. The results will help guide therapy and track progress for RTI purposes. Speech therapists and special education teachers can include the findings in the IEP and Progress Report as a measure of performance. In addition, parents may utilize this workbook as a homework plan to improve their child’s auditory processing skills. WHAT GOALS/OBJECTIVES ARE WORKED ON DURING THIS ACTIVITY? The following objectives can be targeted during this activity: (1) improve receptive vocabulary of basic pictures, (2) increase comprehension of spatial concepts, (3) increase comprehension of temporal concepts, (4) increase comprehension of sequential concepts, (5) increase comprehension of conditional linguistic concepts, (6) follow basic 1-step directions, (7) follow 2-step directions, (8) follow 3-step directions, (9) follow 4-step directions Read more