Toy Box Adapted Book | Core Words WH Questions Sounds | SLP SPED Autism
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Lift the lid and see what’s inside! In “What’s in the Toy Box?”, students ask “What can it be?”, use the core word OPEN to open the lid, reveal a toy (common objects vocabulary), and imitate its sound (train → CHOO-CHOO, car → ZOOM, firetruck → WEE-OOH, piano → PLINK-PLINK! etc).
📖 “What’s in the toy box?
What can it be?
Open the lid… T
There’s a train, I see! CHOO-CHOO!”
🎓 Educational Benefits: Targets AAC core vocabulary (open, what), WH-question comprehension, functional toy vocabulary, and verbal imitation through fun sounds.
🔬 Built on Evidence-Based Practices: Draws on practices well-supported in AAC and early language intervention — core vocabulary instruction, aided language modeling, repeated/predictable interactive book reading, and naturalistic vocal imitation.
📚 How to Use: Ask “What’s in the toy box?” · use the core word OPEN to reveal the toy · everyone imitates the sound · match the toy on each page · laminate and reuse.
🎯 Skills Targeted: Core words (open, what) · WH questions · toy vocabulary · verbal imitation · picture matching · receptive & expressive language
💛 Perfect For: SLP · SPED & autism · PreK–Kindergarten · ECSE · AAC users · circle time & small groups · toys/play units · homeschool
Also included: What's In the Toy Box? as a digital adapted book
This one comes two ways. Print the PDF for small groups, or open the same story as an interactive digital adapted book for independent practice.
This digital adapted book plays right in the browser on an iPad, phone, or computer. Nothing to print, cut, laminate, or velcro. Students work through the same story and activities as the printed book, right on the screen.
- Interactive — students click, drag, match, and trace, right on the screen
- Read-aloud narration — the book is narrated
- Printable IEP session data — the book tracks prompts and errors as the student works, then prints a clean one-page report. Anonymous by design, and it never leaves the device
- No prep — no printing, no laminating, no pieces to lose
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