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President's Day Vocabulary

I'm on vacation and I've had some time to thinking about my lesson planning. My partner, L, thinks I should develop a really cool lesson re: vocabulary for 1st graders who have autism with the following words: President, honest, cabin, nation, Civil War, elected. I've also been collaborating with our Occupational Therapist and am thinking of throwing in a cute song with some fingerplay into the mix. Thoughts? Ideas?

A Vocabulary Lesson...

It seems like many of my kids' IEP goals have to do with vocabulary and learning new lexical items. I love vocabulary! I love learning new lexical items! I'm kind of a nerd that way. When I was in college I used to keep a notebook where I wrote down new words I encountered in my pleasure reading and their definitions. Then I would study it in between classes when I had nothing else to do. It was delicious to me. There was nothing I loved more than experiencing a juicy word and taking it in, making it part of my lexicon and sharing it with the world on an overflowing plate.