St Valentine Adapted Book for Special Education | Valentine’s Day Activities

Do you want to teach your students about St Valentine this Valentine’s Day? Are you looking for an engaging and hands-on resource to use with your students? If so, your students will love this adapted book to learn all about him.

Adapted books are a great way to encourage students to pay close attention to detail and start to link vocabulary to the images that they see. This adapted book comes with symbols as well as a ‘base page’ this is where the symbols can be stored when not in use and for students to select the symbols from to use within the adapted book.

On each page of the adapted book your students will be faced with an image and a sentence relating to St. Valentine. Then, students find the matching symbol for the page. This is a great opportunity for students to work on their reading and language skills too.

Instructions

• Print out all of the pages.
• Cut out and laminate each of the pages and bind into a book.
• Cut out and laminate each of the individual symbols and place velcro onto the back of them.
• Laminate the final base – the base board – and add velcro onto these.
• Place the individual symbols onto the base board. Students choose the symbols from the base board to place onto the adapted book as they complete it.

The vocabulary is suitable for American or British classrooms. (Color, Colour etc.)

This adapted book is a great way to help students build up and work on their sentences. It encourages students to select the correct words(symbols) to match the picture they are looking at as well as being able to place them in the correct order to build an appropriate sentence.