Expanding Expression Tool

What it is and how well will use it in the SLLD classrooms.

The Expanding Expression Tool (EET), created by Sara Smith, is a simple multi-sensory approach to help students increase their oral and written language skills.

Expanding Expression Tool. What is it?

The Expanding Expression Tool (EET) kit helps to build both oral

expression and written expression.

Expanding Expression Tool. What is it?

Students quickly learn each symbol and consistently describe and define objects and items providing 6-7 details in an organized manner.

For Green Group, students name the category or group the item belongs to.

It is a food.

Expanding Expression Tool. The Code.

For Blue Do, students tell the function of an item or what one does with it.

You eat it.

Expanding Expression Tool. The Code.

For What Does It Look Like? students describe the color, shape, and size of the item.

It is small, round and red.

Expanding Expression Tool. The Code.

For What Is It Made of? students tell what the item is made of or where it comes from.

It grows on a vine.

Expanding Expression Tool. The Code.

For Pink Parts the students tell what parts the item has.

It has seeds, an endocarp and a mesocarp.

Expanding Expression Tool. The Code.

For White Where,

students tell where you find the item or where it is used.

You can buy it at the produce market.

Expanding Expression Tool. The Code.

We will begin using the Expanding Expression Tool for describing people, animals, objects, and places first verbally and then in writing.

Expanding Expression Tool. How we will use it.

As the students’ skills increase, we will use the Expanding Expression Tool to write from prior experience, write a biography/autobiography and summarize.

Expanding Expression Tool. How we will use it.