INTERACTIVE SMARTBOARD SLIDES | ANIMATED. Help even your neediest special education students connect with core vocabulary using these animated, visually simple and repetitive slides on your smartboard to engage them during AAC group or circle time.

Students watch as the Christmas train races down the tracks. But wait - the forest and farm animals have lost their way in the snowstorm and have wandered onto the train tracks STOPPING the train. Students must HELP the train by clicking or tapping the animals to make them disappear so that the train can GO forward to reach Santa with his stop sign at his workshop.

The animals in this activity (18) include: Cow, pig, sheep, dog cat, deer, mouse, turkey, owl, duck, chicks, squirrel, bear, horse, rabbit, hen, horse and goat.

This is the Christmas version of my train rescue activity and is identical to my Winter Train Rescue activity. If you would prefer an activity without the Christmas fanfare, click here to view Winter Train Rescue.

This animated interactive smartboard slide show has a companion printable adapted book (includes an Easel Activity) you can use alone or use in follow-up as a hands on activity. The Easel format is drag and drop. Click here to view Christmas Train Rescue Adapted Book.

FEATURING:

• Animated – The Christmas train travels across the screen and animals disappear on a click or a tap.
  
  
• Fun sound effects - Hear the train whistle blow through-out plus other cartoon sound effects. Santa says, "Ho, ho, ho," at the end!
  
  
• Targets core words HELP, STOP and GO practice but could be used with other core words, such as LOOK, LIKE or MORE.

HOW TO USE THIS INTERACTIVE SLIDESHOW ACTIVITY:

• Teach beginning pragmatic (social) language skills: Sitting with others, turn taking, waiting,

• Target early communication skills - Joint attention, pointing, choice making.

• Practice core words on AAC devices.

• Use in conjunction with a big core board.

• Build vocabulary – Identify or label single words, describe, define.

• Increase MLU - Expand from words to phrases.

• Answer simple “wh” questions (what, where, who).

• Build literacy skills

MORE YOU MIGHT LIKE:

Click here to view my printable companion adapted book Christmas Train Rescue Adapted Book

CLICK HERE to view all of my animated train PowerPoint slideshows.

Click here to view my other GO slide shows

Click here to view my other STOP slide shows

Click here to view my other HELP slide shows

CLICK HERE to view my other Christmas slide shows

CLICK HERE to view my other Interactive Slide Shows

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Included:

You will get a 21-page non-editable PowerPoint Show file in a zip folder.

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