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CORE WORD OF THE WEEK

GO

WHYS & WAYS FOR ‘GO’

WHYS WAYS
( RE A SONS TO COMMUNIC ATE ) ( TO USE THE TARGET WORDS )

EXPRESSING NEEDS AND WANTS

Choice making go there, it go here, it goes here

Gaining attention go with me! I go!
Requesting I go, I go too, I want to go, I want to go there, I want to
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go ____,
my go, I have go, I want to have a go
Refusing, rejecting, protesting not go, don’t go, I not go, I not go there, I don’t want to
go

GET TING AND GIVING INFORMATION

Simple commenting ready, set, GO! [I/you/he/she/it/we/they] go

Express feelings
Asking for information
Discuss (comments/directions)
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I don’t want to go, I don’t want you to go, when you go I
feel sad
where go? where did you go? where are [you/we] going?
where am I going?
what go? what go in? what did you go in/on? what are
you going in/on?
who go? who go with me? who did you go with? who
are [you/we] going with?, who is going with us?
when go? when did you go? when are you going?
why go? why I go? why did you go? why are you going?
why am I going? why are we going?
go, go now, go soon, go later, go again, go last, go first,
go next

go and get, go and give, go and play, go and eat, go and

help
go to ___
go with ___
go out, go out there, go out now, go out soon
go here, go there
go up, go down
go on ___, go in ___
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Give opinions that should go here, let’s go there, __ doesn’t go with __

Give descriptions
Talk about past events
Talk about future events
Tell a story that really happened
Tell an imaginary story
Plan
Explain
go to the big rock
go, went, I went to __, we went to __
go, will go, is going, I will go to __
go, went, I went to __, we went to __
go, went, I went to __, we went to __, they will go __
first, go ___, then ___. where can we go? where should
we go?
To go ____, you need __

SOCIAL INTER ACTION

Greeting / saying goodbye go safe

Simple politeness please go, please go now, please don’t go
Conversational skills Conversation about GOING places.
Tease / Flirt / Giving You are going good!
compliments
Tell jokes Why did the chicken go across the road?
Negotiate If we go __ I will be good, you can go if I can __

SPECIFIC GRAMMAR
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1. Use grammar supports to model negatives of GO, e.g. don’t go, doesn’t go
2. Use grammar supports to model different tenses of GO, e.g. going, went, goes, etc.
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IDEAS FOR USING ‘GO’

1. Watch the Angelman Syndrome Foundation Communication Training Series video that
covers teaching “go”: youtu.be/Si-MDNKQTag
2. You can teach verb inflections/tenses using the grammar popups for the various forms of
GO, e.g. went, going, will go, etc.
3. Teaching Go works really well with a great big expectant pause… So when playing, say
“Ready, set (wait) …….”, or “1, 2, 3 (wait) …..”. Remember that if the student does not add
“GO”, you can go ahead and model GO anyway.
4. When modeling GO, make multiple opportunities to model the word, by stopping and
pausing throughout the activity.
5. Pair working on GO with “stop” or “come”, as appropriate.
6. There are many toys/games where you can model GO. Here are some examples:
• Swinging - stop the swing and model “go”.
• Slide - at the top of the slide, model “go”.
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• Spinning tops - wind it up and model “go” when you release it

• Wind-up toys - wind it up and model “go” when you release it
• Cars, trains (or any wheel toys) - model “go” as you push the cars, or let them go down
a ramp. Use an old poster tube to make a “tunnel” to let cars go down through.
• Musical instruments - model “go” as you start playing
• Musical statues- model “go” as you start dancing
• Balloons - blow up balloons and model “go” as you let it go to fly around the room
• Card games/ board games - you can model “go”, or “my go”, to request a turn during the game
• Racing/running/walking/riding/pushing - model “go” for the start of any of these.
• Traffic light game - slow down, stop, go
• Blocks - model “go” when it is time to knock the tower down.
• Music - model “go” when pressing play to start the song. Lots of pausing of the song will
allow lots of opportunities to model “go”
• Hiding games/ treasure hunts - model “go” when it is time to start looking.
7. During cooking lessons, use GO, as you turn on blenders, start stirring, turn on the
microwave, set the timer for the oven and more.
8. During science experiments, use GO to start the experiment or during relevant steps.
9. Explore a unit of work about “things that go” (transport/vehicles).
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10. Model GO + places: discuss places students like to go, places they went to, places they
wish to go to, places to go to around the school, classroom, home, etc.
11. Model GO, while singing the Nursery Rhyme: ‘The Wheels on the Bus’.
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12. Use these apps to make a car, and then model GO, as you drive it along the road!
• Lego Juniors: Create & Cruise:
itunes.apple.com/au/app/lego-juniors-create-cruise/id491075156?mt=8
• Create a Car: itunes.apple.com/au/app/create-a-car/id388173036?mt=8

LITERACY SUGGESTIONS

1. The following books have repeated lines with the word “go”:
• Go Dog Go, by PD Eastman
2. “I go to _”, “I went to __”, “I want to go to __”, “I go in a _” are commonly used for
Predictable Chart Writing.
3. Rhyming words - brainstorm and find words that rhyme with “GO”, e.g. blow, slow, no,
snow, flow, grow, bow, toe, so, etc.
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4. Write a list of things that GO. Have the class vote for their favourite things that goes.
5. Some Tar Heel Readers that may suit include:
• tarheelreader.org/2015/03/31/go-not-go/
• tarheelreader.org/2014/09/03/dr-jean-go/
• tarheelreader.org/2014/06/03/lets-go-cook/
• tarheelreader.org/2014/06/03/some-dogs-go/
• tarheelreader.org/2016/06/28/go-5/
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