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Seriously! We have the most versatile transportation themed vocabulary activity to help make your sessions as easy as a Sunday drive. Use this single activity over five different ways to target a variety of speech and language areas. Plus your students will love the colorful vehicle themed pictures and vocabulary. Keep reading to see how you can modify this activity to meet your students’ goal areas today!
Transportation Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt
Do you have a transportation themed week coming up? Do you have students with a high interest area of vehicles? Need an activity to target multiple goals during one session?
STOP right here! We have you covered. Read on to see how our Transportation Vocabulary Scavenger Hunt can check all of the above criterion and more. We will review the many different ways we can use this one activity below so keep reading.
Vocabulary Cards
First up, you can print, laminate, and cut out the vehicle vocabulary cards. These cards come in full color or black and white for a low ink print option. We like to hide this cards either in a sensory bin or around the classroom for students to locate and then target a variety of language skills including identifying/labeling, whole/part, location, describing, and function. This is a perfect hands on activity to keep your students moving AND working at the same time.
The following modes of transportation vocabulary cards are included: Airplane, Bicycle, Bus, Car, Helicopter, Hot Air Balloon, Rowboat, Rocketship, Sailboat, Truck, Submarine, School Bus, Train, Ship.
Vocabulary Checklist
Next up, print in color or black and white the vocabulary checklist. Students will love checking off their target words as they find them. You can pair the checklist with hidden cards, a sensory bin, the included hidden picture scene, or on a walk outside!
On the bottom of the transportation scavenger hunt vocabulary checklist, there is a visual sentence starter as well. Students can work on expanding utterances by stating what vehicle they found in a complete sentence. Challenge them to add a descriptor or location to their sentences as well!
Find & Cover
Give each student a find and cover page. Use transportation counters, pom-poms, BINGO chips, or Micro Machines cars to cover each vehicle as they find them. You can pair this activity page with the colorful picture scene too.
Often times, I like to project the full color hidden picture scene on the classroom’s Ben-Q/Smartboard board. Students enjoy taking turns coming to the front of the room, locating a vehicle, then circling the item on the screen. Meanwhile, the rest of the class is able to follow along and cover their pictures at their desks. Such a great large group activity with a fun transportation theme!
Also read: 5 Tips For Planning A Productive Large Speech & Language Group
Find & Color
These next activity page is perfect for your older students as well as small group sessions. Use the picture scene or vocabulary cards and have each student find a vehicle. Then print a find and color page for each student.
Students can color their pictures just like the vocabulary cards or choose their own colors then describe. This is a great reinforcing activity for students for in between turns.
Vehicle Category Sort
We have an awesome addition to this particular transportation vocabulary scavenger hunt activity! Mandy created three backgrounds so your students can sort each vehicle by air, water, or land. Perfect for mixed goal groups!
Each background comes in full color so you can laminate for repeated use. Or you can print the black and white copies so students can have their own individual practice or speech homework. This is a great activity to target additional language targets.
Speech Sound Carry-Over
Use any of the above described activities to help your students carry-over their target speech sounds in a functional and engaging way. Students can use all the included transportation themed vocabulary within carry-over sentences containing their specific sound. Check out some examples below!
- “I see a train.”
- “I found a train.”
- “I like trains.”
- “I checked a train.”
- “I covered/colored a train.”
We also have several articulation only scavenger hunts available as well. Have student and find specific words containing their target sound, then match to themed vocabulary words. Click here to see more!
Want Even More?
Loving this transportation themed vocabulary scavenger hunt and all of the possibilities? We have more fun themes in these versatile scavenger hunts! Click here to see all of the scavenger hunts we have available!
Best part? We have tons of ideas for new vocabulary scavenger hunts in the works! Be sure to check back often as we will be adding more very soon!
We hope you found these activities to be super helpful when diving into a transportation themed speech and language session. Used this activity in a different way than listed above? Let us know on social media! We would love to see!
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