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Christmas Prepositions Adapted Book | Santa Position Words Colors | SLP SPED

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Christmas Prepositions Adapted Book | "Where Is Santa Hiding?" with Position Words & Color Identification

This Christmas adapted book teaches prepositions, position words, AND colors through an engaging hide-and-find format. Students identify where Santa is hiding in relation to colored elves on each page — building positional concept vocabulary AND color identification at the same time.

★ Two skills in one resource: prepositions/positional concepts + colors

★ Perfect for: Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), Special Education Teachers, Autism Classrooms, Self-Contained Classrooms, Resource Rooms, Life Skills Classes, Paraprofessionals, ABA Therapists, Early Childhood, PreK, Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, and 2nd Grade

Sample Verse from the Book:

"Where is Santa hiding?

Where can he be?

He's BETWEEN the yellow elves,

As we can plainly see!"

What's Included:

  • 1 Interactive Adapted Book — "Where Is Santa Hiding?"
  • Position/Preposition matching cards for every page
  • Colored elf imagery for color reinforcement
  • Repeating predictable rhyming text for language building

Prepositions & Position Words Targeted:

  • on top of
  • under / below
  • in / inside
  • behind
  • next to / beside
  • in front of
  • over / above
  • between

Skills Targeted:

  • Prepositions (receptive AND expressive understanding)
  • Position words / positional concepts — under, behind, beside, on top of, between, etc.
  • Spatial concepts and spatial reasoning
  • Color identification and reinforcement
  • "Where" questions — answering where Santa is hiding
  • Following directions with prepositions
  • Predictable repetitive rhyming text — supports emerging readers and AAC users
  • Receptive and expressive language
  • Vocabulary development
  • Matching skills

How to Use This Christmas Adapted Book:

A teacher, SLP, or paraprofessional reads the adapted book aloud while students follow along, identifying where Santa is hiding in relation to the colored elf on each page. Students match a position/preposition card to each page as the teacher reads — combining preposition learning with color reinforcement.

Ways to Use:

  • Christmas activities
  • Holiday thematic units
  • Small group speech therapy
  • 1:1 instruction for targeted preposition practice
  • Whole group Christmas language lessons
  • Literacy centers and independent workstations
  • AAC modeling (modeling preposition + color use on communication devices!)
  • Following directions practice
  • Color identification lessons
  • Winter thematic units

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