WH Questions — Where and When
Cards for where and when question practice.
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Mark a card Correct, Correct with cue or Incorrect and the summary writes itself here.
How to run it
Group by question word rather than alternating. Five where questions in a row establish what where is asking for; alternating means a child who does not know one will fail on both. Where questions can be answered by pointing, which makes them the easier of the two and the right place to start. Eight minutes covers the twelve.
Cueing ladder
Start at the top. Add support one step at a time.
- IndependentPresent the item and wait 5 seconds of quiet before helping.Log as correct
- HintReread the key sentence, or point back to the clue in the text or picture.Log as cued
- Two choicesOffer two answers, the right one not always second.Log as cued
- ModelThink aloud: say how you worked it out, then the student says the answer and why.Log as cued
Adjust it
Read it aloud to the student and offer two choices from the start.
Ask the student to say which words gave them the clue, not just the answer.
Matching IEP goal
Given short texts or spoken prompts, Student will answer wh- questions in 8 of 10 opportunities across 3 consecutive sessions, given no more than an indirect cue.
Send it home through the parent portal →About this activity
Twelve questions split between two question words: where is the ball, where do you live, where did you go, where is the bathroom, where do you keep your coat; when is your birthday, when does school start, when do you eat lunch, when do you brush your teeth, when is bedtime. Where asks for a place and when asks for a time, and children confuse them for longer than adults expect.
What to listen for
Listen for a place answer to a time question or the reverse. When is your birthday answered with at my house is a question word confusion and is different from not knowing the answer. Watch the personal questions — where do you live, when is your birthday — which require retrieval rather than looking, and are harder than the ones about a visible object.
Carrying it home
Where and when questions happen constantly. Asking one at a time and waiting for the answer, rather than asking two together, is what gives a child the chance to sort out which is which.
What's in this activity
- Where is the ball?
- Where do you live?
- Where did you go?
- Where is the bathroom?
- Where does the teacher sit?
- Where do you keep your coat?
- When is your birthday?
- When does school start?
- When do you eat lunch?
- When did it happen?
- When is bedtime?
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Questions
- What grades is this for?
- Kindergarten through third, for early wh-question work.
- Is it free?
- Yes, all twelve questions play with no account.
- Which question word should I teach first?
- Where, usually. It can be answered by pointing, which makes it concrete, and it comes earlier for most children than when.
Use this board with your caseload
With a free account, every correct, cued and incorrect mark is saved to the student and scored against their IEP goal, with the data written up for you. Assign it as home practice through the parent portal.
Track progress freeFree for SLPs. No card, no trial clock.