I Spy Game for Practicing Expressive Language, Vocabulary, & Receptive Language

Bring fun and excitement to your classroom with this I Spy game! This game is perfect for practicing expressive language, expressive vocabulary, and receptive language. With 6 unique scenes, your students can practice targeted vocabulary and practice identifying items by feature, function, or class. 

These I Spy games will expand and practice your students' language skills in expressive vocabulary, receptive language, using nouns and verbs, labeling items and much more! Each of the 6 I Spy themes comes with a targeted sheet that identifies the nouns, verbs, colors, features, functions, categories in the picture.

Included in this I Spy resource: 

• 6 scenes with targeted vocabulary included, differentiated by difficulty. (farm, bedroom, backyard, kitchen, classroom, autumn scene). *The autumn scene is available free in my resource library.
• A vocabulary sheet for each scene of all the vocabulary in the picture including nouns, verbs, colors, features, functions, and categories
• A cheat sheet for each scene of potential targets or questions to address in the game (e.g., I spy something that barks; I spy something that's green)

This I Spy resource provides you with a ready-made activity to pull out as a filler to work on language skills where the key elements for commenting, object identification and description are already identified for you within a contained picture (leading to easier prompting by you for language because of a common picture and less guessing). 

Using this I Spy resource is easy! It will work in face-to-face online distance learning or in the classroom as a group or individual activity. And your students will think it's "just" a game of I Spy.

✅Playing traditional I Spy (in a myriad of ways)

✅Talk about the picture using expressive vocabulary

✅Students tell (or write) a story about the picture

✅Ask simple inference questions about the picture (e.g., why does the girl have a rake?)

✅Have students use it as a picture of the day for journal entries

✅Use them for students to do simple descriptions of items or activities in the picture (e.g., what is the boy doing?)

This I Spy resource used for receptive language is perfect to use in various settings, especially where you want your students to practice expressive language. You can use this in early childhood settings or with special education students, speech and language students and students working in verbal behavior programs on receptive language and expressive feature, function, class. 

❤️Features you will LOVE:

• Clear, simple scenes with vocabulary items that stand out
• Combinations of different types of vocabulary (e.g., nouns, verbs) for easy differentiation in group activities
• Ideas for simplifying or expanding the game to meet different needs in the class
• Google Slides™️ of the picture scenes for easy use in distance learning
• Instructions and ideas for teachers to use easily in their classroom
• Cheat sheets teachers can use to highlight targets they want to address with their students

This I Spy resources targets a wide range of skills: receptive vocabulary, expressive language, labeling with nouns, receptive by feature, function and/or class, expressive vocabulary by feature, function and/or category, telling narratives, expanding length of utterances, making inferences, beginning letter id, and more!

What teachers are saying about this I Spy game…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “This is a great resource to have. It provides the pictures and pages of ideas with what to ask your students. It has you covered in language strand areas!” - Marcela F.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “These have been a huge time saver and have served as a great resource for my students on the autism spectrum to answer questions, ask questions and to form more syntactically correct sentences.” - Joyce G.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I displayed a slide to my virtual students and we played "I Spy." It gave my students a chance to ask questions giving clues, while others used those clues to find the object and respond. My intention was student interaction. A bonus was the use of language skills in communicating with one another. So happy with this resource. Thank you!!” - Cool Cats 

Check out these related products with receptive language:

• Autism Receptive Vocabulary Activities 4 Season BUNDLE: Feature Function Class
• SEASONS BUNDLE of Interactive Adapted Books for Special Education

⭐️ If you are a member of the Special Educator Academy, this set is included in your membership, so don't buy it! ⭐️

© Christine Reeve

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