Expanding Expression Tool (EET) Ideas
If you are not familiar with the Expanding Expression Tool (EET), please read my review and follow up posts here. It is available from Sara Smith at her website. Today, I want to bring you some other ideas that you can easily incorporate into your therapy using this amazing tool.
1. Choose 5-8 items from any book that you’re reading and describe them using the EET. This can reinforce the events from the book while working on overall expressive language skills.
2. Use the EET stickers and give each student a different item. Set a timer and race to see who can finish writing down their descriptions the fastest. Then share aloud.
3. Use the EETchy Steppers on the ground. Tell the students they each need to stand on a stepper. Name 2 items and have your students describe the attribute that they are standing on. Switch steppers and repeat.
4. Go on an EET walk around the school. Pick different items to name and use the beads to describe at least 3-4 attributes about each item.
5. If students are having difficulty with a particular bead, spend one session on just that bead. My younger students seem to have the most difficulty with the green bead in the beginning, so we spend a lot of time naming the category of different items.
Hope these 5 simple ideas get you started with the EET or refresh your therapy if you’ve been using it for awhile! I love this tool and so do my students!
Hello. I am wondering if you would be willing to share some of the goals you write for describing or EET? Thank you for the review!
Hi Traci! Depending on age, I usually will write a goal/objective for describing 3-5 attributes of an item. I don’t specify because I don’t want to write an actual tool into an IEP. Hope this helps!