Native American Sentence Builder Book | Action Words & Sentences | SLP SPED Auti

Build action word (verb) identification, sentence building, and sentence comprehension with this hands-on Native American Sentence Builder Book, "What Are the Native Americans Doing?" A teacher or therapist reads the story while students follow along and match the correct action to each page — targeting important speech and language IEP goals. A respectful, engaging fit for Native American Heritage Month and cultural studies.

📖 Sample Page

"What is Tala doing? What can it be? She's… __________ (playing a drum) as we can plainly see."

👉 Students find and attach the action that completes the page.

📦 What's Included

• 1 interactive sentence builder book — "What Are the Native Americans Doing?"
• Sentence builder strips — students combine three pictures to form a complete sentence
• Sentence comprehension activity — students read (or hear) a sentence and choose the picture that best illustrates it

🎯 Skills Targeted

• Action words / verbs
• Sentence building and structure
• Sentence comprehension
• Subject + verb + detail sentence formation
• Receptive and expressive language
• Reading comprehension
• Following along in a book
• Cultural studies vocabulary
• Listening comprehension

📚 How to Use

• Read the book aloud in small group as students match the action to each page
• Have students build sentences with the sentence builder strips (three pictures = one sentence)
• Use the sentence comprehension activity to check understanding — read the sentence, choose the matching picture
• Set up at a literacy center for independent practice of any or all activities
• Use during speech therapy to target verbs and sentence structure
• Use during a Native American Heritage Month or cultural studies unit

💛 Perfect For

• Speech-language therapy sessions (SLPs)
• Special education classrooms (SPED)
• Autism classrooms and ABA programs
• Language and literacy groups
• Preschool, PreK, Kindergarten, and 1st grade
• Literacy centers and work stations
• 1:1 work with paraprofessionals
• Native American Heritage Month and social studies units
• Homeschool language practice
• Early childhood and ECSE

🌟 Why Teachers & SLPs Love This Resource

• Three activities in one — adapted book, sentence strips, and comprehension
• Targets multiple IEP goals (verbs, sentence structure, comprehension)
• Interactive and hands-on — students build, not just listen
• A meaningful fit for Native American Heritage Month
• Works for whole group, small group, 1:1, and independent centers
• Reusable year after year once laminated

🎁 Save with the bundle! This Sentence Builder Book is part of the Sentence Builder Books Growing Bundle — verb and sentence practice for every theme (and every future book free).

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