Reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar with AAC

I have recently been inspired by conversations with co-blogger Twinkle Blueberry about modelling AAC whilst sharing books (and her recent blogpost on the subject) so I decided to give it a go.  My girl is much younger than hers and she likes very simple, repetitive books which are read in the same way, with the same rhythm, each time.  She is also quite impatient and likes things to happen quickly!  This means that (at this stage, anyway) I can't do long, complicated modelling that would involve navigating through different folders to find words - because she likes pages turned quickly!!

So this is how we did it ...

First of all we put on the YouTube video of Eric Carle reading his book 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar'.  (She likes watching him better than listening to me!)

Then we opened our 'comments' folder (general comments, not designed for this activity):

Then I just put in any comments which were relevant as Eric turned the pages.  She was comfortable with that as it didn't change the rhythm or speed of the story too much.  Buttons which were useful were:

 'Oh dear!  Ouch!' (when the caterpillar had a stomach ache)

'Yummy!' (when the caterpillar ate nice things)

'That's clever!' (when the caterpillar built a cocoon)

'That's silly!' (when the caterpillar ate too much food).

 'Wow!  That's pretty!' (when the caterpillar turned into a butterfly),