About This Lesson
Lesson Overview
- Unit: Toys and Play
- Lesson topic: Different Ways to Play with Toys
- Age group: Preschool and early elementary students, including students who use AAC or benefit from visual supports
- Duration: 30–40 minutes, adaptable to individual student needs
- Communication supports: Low-tech communication device with embedded icons, communication boards, picture symbols, visual cues, and gestures
Learning Objectives
By the end of the lesson, students will have opportunities to:
- Explore and demonstrate different ways to play with familiar toys.
- Use a low-tech communication device, communication board, gesture, sign, vocalization, or other communication method to express wants and needs.
- Communicate at least one play action, such as push, build, roll, stack, pretend, or give.
- Make choices between toys and play activities.
- Participate in turn-taking or shared play with an adult or peer.
Students may demonstrate these skills through independent communication, communication with modeling, eye gaze, reaching, gestures, or other established communication methods.
