I recently added a Vest Display resource, Sally the Camel, to the Teachers Pay Teachers site. This resource is available in two formats: SymbolStix, PCS.
The Sally the Camel Vest Display Resource includes the digital resources needed to create a song vest display. Files include the scene, the manipulatives, the symbol lines, the song symbol, the time-dependent repetitive line symbol and instructions for the layout. These digital files are printed on legal size paper and are assembled on 14" X 13" base of black poster board.
In keeping with the lyrics, Sally the camel starts out with 5 attached humps (velcroed to her back) that are removed one-by-one as each verse is sung. Eventually the camel is replaced with an image of a horse. The camel with attached humps are velcroed to a rectangle that slides along a length of fishing line with a rider, personalized with a student photo face ("SO RIDE [SALLY] RIDE … BOOM … BOOM … BOOM"). Obviously, the camel humps provide a math agenda (counting, subtraction). The resource also includes riders with shirts of different colors … allowing you to build in a color agenda ("SO RIDE [RED SHIRT] RIDE … BOOM … BOOM … BOOM"). When a 'mystery printed name' is inserted in the name slot, a literacy agenda is also possible (printed name recognition).
Here are two simple variations amenable to differentiated instruction.
Variation 1:
6 students receive a rider manipulative. Each rider can be differentiated by their colored shirt and their personalized photo face.
Upon hearing the line, "So ride RED SHIRT ride … Boom … boom … boom", the child with the 'red shirt rider'comes forward to attach his rider to the camel on the vest display. This can be accomplished using an auditory cue, e.g., "red" or it can be addressed using a visual cue (the RED symbol) inserted in the name slot of the symbol line (now it is a color matching task).
The verse is then re-sung, this time substituting the child's name, e.g., "So ride Yanny ride … Boom … boom … boom" (the camel + rider is then moved across the scene to simulate a camel ride).
Variation 2:
6 students receive their corresponding photo face (that will be attached to the rider on the camel when it is their turn).
At the outset of each verse, the Facilitator places a mystery printed name in the 'name slot' of the symbol line. As the name card is constructed as a Dual=Representation symbol (printed word = photo face), the card can be flipped to reveal the photo of the correct person.
I am sure there are other strategies than can be implemented to promote differentiated instruction. If you have a variation that works for your students … I would love to hear from you.
Aside: Sally the Camel is also available as an Animated Step-by-Steps®
(3 formats: Regular, PCS, SymbolStix).
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Augmentative Communication Consultant
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