Desert Animals Adapted Book Unit | Habitat Activities for Special Education

This Desert Animals Adapted Book Unit is a hands-on way to teach desert habitat vocabulary, animal identification, early science concepts, and basic language skills in special education, autism, Pre-K, kindergarten, speech therapy, or early childhood classrooms. Students learn about animals that live in the desert while interacting with adapted books, file folder games, cookie sheet activities, task cards, handwriting pages, and vocabulary extension activities.

Use these desert animals activities during small groups, science units, literacy centers, speech therapy sessions, independent work stations, morning work, or task boxes. The interactive adapted book and matching activities give students repeated practice with desert animal vocabulary while also targeting classification, sequencing, labeling, beginning sounds, positional concepts, number order, fine motor skills, and early writing.

This unit includes a color copy of the adapted book, a black and white student copy, file folder games, cookie sheet activities, a clothespin task, vocabulary handwriting sheets, and extension activities.

Adapted Books Included:

Who Lives in the Desert? (color)
Who Lives in the Desert? (black & white)

File Folder Games Included:

Desert Vocabulary Match-Up
Desert Animals and Ocean Animals Sort
Desert Animals Beginning Sounds File Folder Game

Cookie Sheet Activities Included:

Desert Animals Sequence Cookie Sheet Activity
Cactus Number Sequence Cookie Sheet Activity

Clothespin Activity Included:

Desert Animals or Rainforest Animals Clothespin Task

Handwriting Sheets Included:

Handwriting Practice Set 18: Desert Animals Vocabulary Words

Additional Vocabulary Extension Activities Target:

Sequencing
Classification
Labeling
Positional concepts

Sample Text:

“Who lives in the desert?
Coyotes do—
And scorpions too!”

This unit was updated to include an updated adapted book and additional vocabulary extension activities. Please see the preview for details.