Back to School Prepositions Adapted Book | Position Words Colors | SLP SPED

Back to School Prepositions Adapted Book | "Where Is the Student Hiding?" with Position Words & Color Identification

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

★ 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 Text from the Book:

"Where is the student hiding?

Where can he be?

He's BEHIND the green backpack,

As we can plainly see!"

What's Included:

• 1 Interactive Adapted Book — "Where Is the Student Hiding?"
• Position/Preposition matching cards for every page

Prepositions & Position Words Targeted:

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

Skills Targeted:

• Prepositions
• Position words / positional concepts
• Spatial concepts and spatial reasoning
• Color identification and reinforcement
• "Where" questions — answering where the student 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 Back to School Adapted Book:

A teacher, SLP, or paraprofessional reads the adapted book aloud while students follow along, identifying where the student is hiding in relation to the colored backpack 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:

• Back-to-school activities (August/September peak!)
• Small group speech therapy (preposition AND color IEP goals!)
• 1:1 instruction for targeted preposition practice
• Whole group back-to-school language lessons
• Literacy centers and independent workstations
• AAC modeling (modeling preposition + color use on communication devices!)
• Following directions practice
• Color identification lessons
• Beginning of school year orientation activities