Zoo Sentence Builder Adapted Book | Action Words Sentences | SLP SPED Autism

Zoo Sentence Builder Adapted Book | "What Is Monkey Doing?" with Action Words, Sentence Building & Sentence Comprehension

This zoo-themed sentence builder book teaches action words, sentence building, and sentence comprehension through engaging matching pieces and hands-on activities. Three skill activities in one resource — perfect for speech therapy, special education, and autism classrooms.

★ Three goal areas in one resource: action word identification + sentence building + sentence comprehension!

★ 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:

"What is Monkey doing?

What can it be?

He's ________ (getting a banana)

as we can plainly see."

What's Included:

• 1 Interactive Adapted Book — "What Is Monkey Doing?"
• Matching action word pieces for every page
• Sentence Builder Strips — students combine three pictures to form a complete sentence
• Sentence Comprehension Activity — students choose the picture that best illustrates a given sentence

Skills Targeted:

• Action words / verbs identification
• Sentence building (combining subject + verb + object)
• Sentence comprehension — matching sentences to pictures
• Subject-verb-object sentence structure
• Reading comprehension
• Receptive and expressive language
• Predictable text support
• Zoo animal vocabulary
• Following directions
• Independent work skills

How to Use This Sentence Builder Book:

In a small group, the teacher or therapist reads the story as students follow along and match the correct action to each page. After the book, students extend learning with two additional activities:

• Sentence Builder Strips: Students put three pictures together to form a complete sentence
• Sentence Comprehension Activity: Students read (or listen to) a sentence and choose the picture that best illustrates it

Students working independently can complete any or all of the activities at a literacy center or workstation.

Ways to Use:

• Small group speech therapy (action words, sentence structure IEP goals!)
• 1:1 instruction for targeted sentence building practice
• Whole group zoo/language lessons
• Literacy centers and independent workstations
• Zoo thematic units
• AAC modeling (subject + verb + object sentence frames!)
• ELL/ESL sentence structure instruction
• Language intervention for emerging communicators