Celebrate World Poetry Day by exploring rhymes through pictures and AAC! This creative activity helps learners describe what they see, create rhyming lines, and build simple poems. Perfect for all ages and AAC systems.
Picture cards or digital images (nature, animals, emotions, etc.)
Optional: Pre-written rhyming pairs or rhyme charts
AAC devices or communication boards
Show a picture and model describing it using AAC (e.g., “The sky is blue”).
Support learners to describe their own pictures using core and fringe words.
Help create rhymes from those descriptions (e.g., “blue” rhymes with “true”).
Put lines together into a shared, silly, or themed poem.
Take turns reading out the rhymes using AAC.
Example AAC Models by Level:
1-word: “look,” “see,” “like,” “make”
2-word: “see tree,” “make rhyme,” “big sky”
3-word: “I like that,” “Sky is blue,” “Make more rhyme”
Functions Targeted:
Commenting: “That’s funny,” “Sounds great”
Requesting: “I want more,” “Help me”
Refusing: “Not that,” “Don’t want”
Directing: “Say it again,” “Put it here”
Interjections: “Wow,” “Yay,” “Cool!”
NEXT SECTION
Use Single Words
Select if you’re proficient at this objective and ready to move onto the next objective
