Teaching turn is one of my FAVORITE lessons! We always teach the students “my turn” and “your turn” so they pretty much have that mastered but teaching them other meanings of turn and how to use it has been a lot of fun. Using another Speech Room News packet of course I targeted turn with the book and worksheet and discussed things we can turn on and off. I typically like to teach turn right after I taught the core words “on” and “off” and try to have them create two-word utterances. I also have them use the UFO toy to practice turning it and have them turn the umbrella when we play “Fizzy Dizzy Hippo.” However, my favorite activity has been using my Amazon Alexa when targeting “turn.” I have the students take turns giving Alexa commands to turn the lights on and off and turn a song on and off. They love all these activities and had such great success with creating the two-word utterances.
