When questions are one of the most difficult WH questions to teach because, in order to understand them, your child has to fully understand the concept of time.
In this resource, children progressively learn to answer ‘When’ questions using flashcards with varying difficulty levels. These flashcards were designed with real pictures to ease the child into learning the temporal context in which events and activities take place.
How to teach WHEN questions in speech therapy?
To teach your child to answer when questions, start with printing and laminating the flashcards.
For easy storage and organization, you can use boxes or envelopes.
This resource has 22 cards (6 with picture prompts and 16 cards with 3 picture choices) to help teach your students to answer when questions:
- The level 1 cards have one picture prompt only in order to make it easy for the child to answer them. These questions are about simple events taking place at a specific time of the day or season.
- Level 2 flashcards are more complex since the child has to choose 1 picture as an answer among 3 choices.
Teaching similar questions like in this example “when do you sleep?” and “when do you go to bed?” asked in different formats (one or multiple choices’ flashcard) helps students understand concepts rather than memorize the answers.
In these flashcards (see the download section below), there are “when” questions that:
- “when” questions that focus on things that happen during a specific time in the day like morning, afternoon, evening, and night events or activities.
- “when” questions about things that happen in a specific season like Winter, Spring, Autumn, and Summer.
- a mixed collection of “when” questions that are more difficult and cover a variety of time frames like “after a shower” or “before the flight”. These questions require a good understanding of the concept of time.
When questions examples for speech therapy
Here are examples of the When questions used to create this resource:
- When do you sleep? (at night)
- When do you play with snow? (Winter)
- When do you go to the beach, swim and play with the sand?
- When do you wear goggles? (when I want to swim)
- When do leaves become orange and fall out of trees? (Autumn)
- When do you blow on candles and get gifts? (birthday party)
- When do you put on pajamas? (before going to bed, at night, before sleeping)
- When do you make a snowman? (in winter)
- When is the weather cool and the leaves are yellow and orange? (Autumn or Fall)
- When do flowers bloom? (Spring)
- When do you nap? (afternoon)
- When do you do your homework? (evening, after school, weekends)
- When do you say “happy new year”? (in the new year)
- When do you fly a kite? (when it’s windy)
- When do you go to bed? (in the night)
- When is it hot outside? (summer)
- When do you eat breakfast? (morning)
- When do you go skiing? (winter)
- When do you go to school? (morning)
- When do you visit the doctor? (when I have a fever, I feel sick)
- When do you swim at the beach? (summer)
- When do you eat lunch? (at noon)
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ABLLS-R aligned resource
H29 Answers When Questions
NB: You can use these flashcards as a first step to teach ABLLS-R H29 “Answers When Questions”. Then, when the student answers them correctly, you can fade picture prompts and let the child answer without any prompt.
Are you looking for more resources to learn WH Questions?
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Questions for beginners. In this guide, you will learn everything there is about WH questions; when to teach them, how to assess the child, how to teach them, and in which order, a list of 200 WH question examples, and other free resources to practice with your child.
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Keywords: Vocabulary, Special education, Early learning, Task Cards, Flashcards, WH Questions, What, Who, Where, When, Why, How, Forming sentences, ABA, ABLLS-R, Speech Therapy