Help students confidently build complete, meaningful sentences using visual supports! This Sentence Builder Flip Book uses the 5 W's and H (Who, What, When, Where, Why and How) to scaffold sentence construction, expand vocabulary, and support expressive language development.
Designed with Boardmaker PCS symbols, this resource is ideal for students who benefit from visual supports, including AAC users, autistic learners, students with language delays, English language learners, and students requiring additional support with writing and communication.
Whether you're teaching narrative writing, sentence expansion, oral language or comprehension, this reusable flip book provides students with structured prompts to independently generate ideas and organise their thinking.
What's Included
✔ Printable Sentence Builder Flip Book
✔ 6 visual prompt sections:
- Who?
- What?
- When?
- Where?
- Why?
- How?
✔ Individual symbol cards for each category
✔ Sentence building mat
✔ Print-and-go resource that can be laminated for repeated classroom use.
Perfect For
- Special Education classrooms
- Autism support classrooms
- AAC users
- Speech Therapy
- Language intervention
- Early Years
- Primary classrooms
- Inclusive classrooms
- Literacy centres
- Small group instruction
- Independent writing activities
- Writing interventions
Students Will Learn To
- Build complete sentences
- Answer the 5 W's and H
- Expand simple sentences
- Organise ideas before writing
- Improve expressive language
- Increase vocabulary
- Develop oral language skills
- Improve comprehension and story retelling
- Write with greater detail and confidence
Why Teachers Love This Resource
⭐ Encourages independent sentence construction
⭐ Provides consistent visual scaffolds
⭐ Supports AAC and minimally verbal students
⭐ Low-prep and reusable
⭐ Great for differentiated instruction
⭐ Works across multiple year levels and ability levels
Ideas for Use
- Writing lessons
- Morning work
- Literacy rotations
- Speech therapy sessions
- Small group intervention
- One-on-one support
- Story retelling
- Narrative writing
- Recount writing
- Picture prompts
- Oral language activities
- Independent work stations
