Materials to teach adjective

Adjective use is one example of incidental teaching that is frequently implemented in schools and home settings. The following are some ideas for materials to use to teach adjectives. Incidental teaching may also be used to teach such objectives as nouns, verbs, pronouns, and initiating and sustaining conversations.

Case Study

Eli is a 4 year-old student with pervasive developmental disorder- not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS). He has a limited functional vocabulary; however, he often recites scenes from favorite storybooks and movies. He often engages in echolalia (i.e., immediately repeats words and phrases said by others). He has previously learned to request preferred foods and toys by using single words. His parents and teacher, Ms. Markin, want him to use color adjectives and targeted the color yellow, his favorite color cookie (vanilla wafers). A recent teaching session went as follows during snack time:

Ms. Markin: (holding bag of cookies, eats one)
Eli: (reaching for cookie) “Cookie”
Ms. Markin: “What color cookie do you want?”
Eli: (reaches for cookie again)
Ms. Markin: (modeling) “Yellow cookie”
Eli: “Yellow cookie”
Ms. Markin: (gives Eli the cookie) “Yes, that’s a yellow cookie. Great!”
The next three trials went similarly with Ms. Markin providing a prompt. The following trial went as follows:
Ms. Markin: (holding bag of cookies, eats one)
Eli: (reaching for cookie) “Yellow cookie”
Ms. Markin: (gives Eli a cookie) “Wonderful! You asked for the yellow cookie.”

Once Eli could consistently request yellow cookies without prompts, Ms. Markin and his parents added another color, again finding items that were motivating to him. For example they began teaching brown with chocolate cookies and red and blue with favorite toy cars.

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