Using remnants to create meaningful books!
Remember making scrap books with ticket stubs, photos, candy wrappers, pictures and other items to recognize important events in your life? Well this idea can be use with our students with communication challenges for topic setting for conversation or for writing. It's important that the student selects that item that's meaningful to that event, otherwise he/she won't see the connection. The Center for Literacy and Disability Studies has a document that includes how to create and use one of these books and also includes the North Carolina standards addressed making and using these books. I knew I being a pack rat was a good thing!
Check out the instructions on the web:
http://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds/documents/RemnantBooks_000.pdf