What is expressive language? Expressive language refers to the use of words, sentences and gestures to express and communicate. It involves naming objects, describing actions, asking and answering questions. Expressive language is critical as it enables kids to express their wants, thoughts and ideas. However, there are children who struggle with expressive language and need some activities
Follow these simple tips to help you improve your child's receptive and expressive language skills with everyday activities.
Use these cards to help your students identify cause and effect relatonship. Help young learners develop expressive and receptive language skills and ability to use imagination. ...
Use these cards to help your students identify cause and effect relatonship. Help young learners develop expressive and receptive language skills and ability to use imagination. ...
Receptive language is the comprehension of language input. Learn all about it, plus X easy activities to improve receptive language delays!
Use these cards to help your students identify cause and effect relatonship. Help young learners develop expressive and receptive language skills and ability to use imagination. ...
Download these free picture mats to build vocabulary in preschool and kindergarten. These are great for English language learners, too! #vocabulary
Resources, tips, and materials to help you, help children with autism
Language disorders refer to limitations in communicating meaning and underlying language structure and include receptive language disorders and expressive language disorders.
Target many expressive and receptive language goals with this fun interactive book that is great for keeping little hands busy!
Create a word wall with these classroom expressions and commands for your ESL classroom! I know that getting my students to speak English aloud is a real challenge for me, especially when most of their classmates speak the same home language. I set up words and expressions around the classroom for them to refer to ... Read More about ESL Common Classroom Expressions
You've received a referral to assess the language abilities of a school aged child with suspected language difficulties. The child has not been assessed before so you know you’ll need a comprehensive language test to look at the child’s ability to recall sentences, follow directions, name words, as well as perform a number of other
The ultimate goal in helping gestalt language processors using an NLA framework, is naturally encouraging flexible & self generated language.
The other day I was reading about a mother’s excitement over her daughter’s language acquisition. It had me thinking back and remembering how that felt for us. My son is now 12 and has …
Cause and effect is an essential reading skill that our readers need in able to adequately and effectively comprehend. It helps students understand how one event connects or leads to the next event. I thought it would be so fun to give my cause and effect resource a little makeover with a fun newsroom theme. Students will be reporters to report on the cause and effect relationships in the story. They will cover what happened (THE EVENT) and what made that event happen (THE CAUSE). These activities, anchor charts, and crafts will help you plan a mini room transformation for your students. Get ready to transform your classroom into a Cause and Effect News Studio! As far as transforming your room goes, I am all for less is more in this instance. You could cover their desk pods or tables with plastic tablecloths and lay the printable microphones on each student's spot. I included a banner that you can print to hang at the front of your room. You might want to make a backdrop up there, too, with bulletin board paper for when students do their reporting. You could also move a piece of furniture or some desks to that area for reporters to sit. I think it would be really cute if you dressed as a reporter and have students dress as one at the end of the unit for one final cause and effect news report. I give instructions in the resource on how to print the anchor chart as a poster. You can laminate this and use a dry erase marker on it when you go to model identifying cause and effect relationships in the text. The posters can be printed and hung near your anchor chart for student reference. For the opening activity, have students gather on the carpet. Explain to them what a cause and effect are and that they will be reporting on different cause and effect relationships in texts. Show them these picture cards all mixed up. Have students help you match the causes and effects and display them on your board or in a pocket chart. Model with the microphone how you might report on these events. I always tell students to identify the effect first and then to find the cause. I have found that this strategy is helpful for students. You really can use any fictional story for cause and effect, but there are some texts that just lend themselves well to teaching this reading skill. Some good ones include The Rain Came Down, A Bad Case of Stripes, any book by Doreen Cronin, Alexander and the No Good, Horrible, Very Bad Day, and any of the Laura Numeroff books. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs would be another good one, since it's about weather. Fictional books about weather events would be great for the news reports! For the first day, I would give each group one of these envelopes filled with the graphic organizers below. These are normally used for cooperative groups or centers and each will have its own text. I would actually read aloud one text for the whole class and then have students go prepare their news reports with their tables. There are two graphic organizers included, the first only has one cause and effect relationship and the other has three. You can choose what would be best for your students. After identifying the cause and effect relationships have each group come up front to deliver their news report. Have a discussion on whether or not students identified the same or a different relationship and explain that stories can have many different ones just like in real life. Use different texts each day so that students are exposed to more examples of cause and effect relationships. I have included different crafts and graphic organizers below that you could use each day. There are enough to even come back to cause and effect later in the year. I always strive to give you lots of options so that you can meet the needs in your classroom. The news report and microphone crafts are sure to get your students excited about cause and effect! After making these, you can hang them in your room to add to your room transformation. I tried to make these look like hats reporters would wear back in the day. I think they would be so fun for your students to wear after one of your lessons! For exit tickets, you can use these printables or have students use their whiteboards. I would display a short passage or story and have students identify a cause or effect. This will let you know if they understand the vocabulary of cause and effect. I actually changed this badges after taking this photo to press passes for students to have access to your newsroom throughout the week. Give students these bookmarks to use during their independent reading time to apply the skill. I always include these book club templates and discussion cards in case you have book clubs meet each week like I used to do. I miss them so much! Students would review the skill on Friday while eating popcorn and discussing the text that day. I hope you love this resource as much as I do! As I am updating all of my reading comprehension units, I am trying to add as many fun themes as possible. Up next is updating my point of view unit with a fun 70s theme! These themes are what keep me excited to teach and help aid in not being burnt out. It doesn't take much to get students excited, so you can make a transformation as small or as big as you want. My students would get excited just over the paper microphones! Ha! You can check out the resource HERE or by clicking on any of the photos. It is sold separately and in a BUNDLE. If you already own it, be sure to download it again. Thank you so much for reading!
Wow! It's been a crazy 2 weeks! My students love the Categories and Vocalic /r/ Bingo so I decided to create a Wh- Questions Bingo. I am constantly looking for materials with wh- questions. The students had so much fun playing. The Wh- Questions Bingo allowed me to acquire a lot of data too! This download includes 4 game boards and 3 pages of bingo chips. Each bingo board has twenty-four wh- questions. Step 1: Print and laminate Bingo Cards and Bingo Chips. Step 2: Print an extra bingo card. Laminate and cut out each wh- question from this card. Step 3: Put the cut out wh- questions in a ziplock bag. Step 3: Cut out each Bingo Chips. Step 4: Start by giving each student a Bingo Card and 10 Bingo Chips. Step 5: Pull the first wh- question out of the ziplock bag Step 6: Have each student give you 1 answer. Step 7: The 1st student to get 5 in a row WINS! Wh- Questions Bingo is available on my TPT page! Click Here! I would love to hear what you think! What other Bingo boards would you like me to create....more arctic?!? Hope you have fun playing BINGO with your kiddies! : )
Learn new ideas for retelling with English Language Learners. Retelling is a great way to incorporate speaking skills into the classroom.
Echolalia- Learn strategies for your Autism classroom. What echolalia is and how to reduce it with activities to decrease repetitive speech or non-authentic communication.
Discover how to nurture receptive and expressive language skills in students with language disorders. Learn effective strategies for the classroom and identify red flags. Explore resources for targeted literacy instruction.
What is expressive language? Expressive language refers to the use of words, sentences and gestures to express and communicate. It involves naming objects, describing actions, asking and answering questions. Expressive language is critical as it enables kids to express their wants, thoughts and ideas. However, there are children who struggle with expressive language and need some activities
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Great Ideas for Teaching is at it again! They have three new materials that I'll be sharing my review of over the next few days. First up, is Language Stimulation Activities! This material can be used to "provide structured, repetitious activities that will assist students in fully learning very important language terms...". It is intended for children in preK through 2nd grade. Each concept pair includes two student worksheets and two instructor worksheets. The student sheet includes four pictures - two to demonstrate each concept. The pages below show the concepts of hot and cold. The instructor's sheet for the first worksheet includes questions and directions such as: - "Is ice cream hot or cold?" - "Point to a picture that shows cold weather." - "Are frozen things hot or cold?" - "If the hot sun shines on a snowman, what will happen to it?" - "When it snows, is the weather hot or cold?" - "Is the word chilly more like hot or cold?" - "On a cold day, does a coat keep you warm or cold?" In all, there are 20 questions on this first instructor worksheet that can be used and/or tailored to the individual needs of students. The second student worksheet includes six concept pairs. According to the instructor's worksheet, students must circle, underline, or mark the picture in another way to appropriately follow the directions that are given. Additional questions are asked as well, such as "Circle the one that has flames. Is it hot or cold?" What I love about this material: - It targets lots of different concepts - hot/cold, happy/sad, wet/dry, new/old, open/closed, inside/outside, front/back, high/low, top/bottom, through/around, big/little, long/short, narrow/wide, fast/slow, push/pull - to name just a few! - It provides tons of practice with the same concept. Often, I feel as though students with language impairments don't receive enough exposure to targeted goals. In this case, students can repeatedly work on the same concept area. - The pictures represent the concept they are portraying very well, so as not to confuse young children. You can find this awesome material to target concept acquisition in a variety of ways for $29.50 HERE! Disclaimer: This item was given to me for review. No other compensation was provided. The opinions expressed here are solely my own.
If you’re an SLP working with school-age kids, students with language disorders might take up a good portion of your caseload. That’s why one of the most common questions that pops up in the groups of SLPs that I mentor is how to do a good language screening. Common questions include things like: “What language...
In my Pets Themed Blog Post, I talked about how much I love themes you can use all the way from January - December because they are budget conscious, can be pulled out anytime, and can be used more than once (or twice) a year!I'm sure you know by now that I am a huge fan any resource that can target a tonne of goals. This is my round up of tried and true resources for a monster theme in speech therapy. I love to use monsters as an alternative to Halloween, for kids who don't celebrate. As always
There are SO many great ways to incorporate speech and language skills into our daily routines. From riding in the car talking about our day or the weather, to baking (sequencing steps aloud) there are lots of fun activities, including many we already do, that can be a great way to practice our communication […]
Looking for a cheap, easy to use therapy material? How about paper bags? I love using paper bags for a variety of activities. Here are some simple ways I have incorporated paper bags into my therapy sessions. 1. Puppets My students love to use puppets to "eat" their articulation cards or other target cards. They also love to use them to tell stories. Making puppets from paper bags is a great, inexpensive way to engage your students in a variety of activities! You can easily make a puppet to match any book or story that you are using. Be creative- your kids will love it! I made these monster puppets with my son this week. They were so easy to make! We used a little paint, glue, and card stock with our paper bags. I found the idea for these cute monsters from this pin: Paper Bag Monster Puppets 2. Describe It To Me This activity is also super easy. I throw a bunch of items into a bag. My students reach in and grab something (no peeking!) to describe. The students remove the object and then describe it using a variety of descriptors. This is a great way to incorporate your Expanding Expression Tool (EET) with describing real objects. Sometimes I will even get really small, cheap objects that the students can keep if they give me a description using all of the beads on the EET. 3. What is in the bag? This is a great activity to work on a student's deductive reasoning skills. I put an object into the bag (students do not see- again, no peeking). Students need to ask questions about my object. This is similar to the game Headbanz. 4. Categories Place pictures of categories on the bag and collect items or pictures to place in each category. I used pictures from my Category Sorting activity. I like to put a piece of Velcro on each bag so that I can interchange the categories without having to get a new bag each time. 5. Collect in a bag Put any kind of card into the bag. My students love to decorate a bag and then collect their cards. 6. Paper bag books You can use two paper bags to make a book that will have two pockets. Simply fold two bags in half and then put the two openings touching each other to make two pockets for a book. Staple together, and done! You have a paper bag book that you can use to target a variety of goals. I used this one to put some of my new sequencing cards in for a student to take home. I have also made these Articulation Paper Bag Books. These are so fun to make with students and send home! Here is a link to a freebie that contains blank frames to use on your paper bags, as well as labels for What is in the bag? and Describe It To Me. Have fun using your paper bags!
Free teletherapy activities: Use these digital, no print resources whether you are doing face-to-face speech therapy or teletherapy!
Kids of all ages love things that go ZOOM! Here are some speech therapy activities that will get their wheels spinning.
It’s that time of year again, and pumpkins are all around us! Pumpkins are a fantastic thing to use in your therapy sessions to support and develop early language skills with your little ones! Here
Being able to both follow and give directions is an important skill in school, and in life. Kids with language disorders often have trouble with processing the directions we give them, or with being able to formulate accurate directions or descriptions so that another person can complete the task or find the object. This is ... Read More about Susan Berkowitz’s Free Mystery Picture Hunt Game for Following and Giving Directions
These interactive world language activities will get your students excited about learning—even in remote or socially-distanced classrooms.
It’s that time of year again, and pumpkins are all around us! Pumpkins are a fantastic thing to use in your therapy sessions to support and develop early language skills with your little ones! Here
Try these 15 awesome language activities with your preschool kids and build their expressive and receptive language while having fun.
Expressive language grows at a rapid rate during the school age years. Yet with all the different skills we could be monitoring, it’s a challenge to focus on the heavy hitters that make a true difference in academic performance. When it comes to expressive language and vocabulary, we know this area is massive. We also...
You will learn how to incorporate sentence strips in speech therapy to help support your students learning new skills!
I use this worksheet along with a describing cue sheet if needed. The cue sheet includes questions such as: What category is it in? What do you do with it? What does it look like? Click here to download! Please consider donating a dollar or two if you want to see more SLP materials!
