Teaching basic concepts in speech therapy - critical to a student’s academic success, being able to comprehend, communicate, and read.
About Vocabulary When targeting vocabulary in therapy, we not only want to focus on giving our learners an expanded vocabulary (by learning many new words), we also want to prioritize having robust vocabulary knowledge (by deepening how well they know each word). These concepts are often called vocabulary breadth and vocabulary depth. Vocabulary depth is […]
Speech therapy inferencing: how and why we work on inferences and predictions, plus 100 real photo inferencing picture scenes!
Help your students learn how to answer wh questions with these 108 wh questions worksheets task cards. Be sure to print the wh questions poster...
Interactive books are an amazing tool to use in speech therapy! Read about what they are, why to use them, some ideas, and grab a FREE one!
As a Pediatric Speech Therapist, these toys are at the top of my Speech Therapy Wish List this Christmas Season! (Yes, I ask for toys for Christmas!)Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “what should I buy the 2 year old on my Christmas List” or “what toys can I use with the 3 year olds on my caseload”. Well, I have included a mega list of toys that can be used in speech therapy with preschoolers (and even early elementary students ) or played with at home all year long!Even if you don’t snag
Speech Therapy Math Activities? What have math games for kids got to do with Speech Therapy? Many of the children I work with for speech therapy find math difficult. Why is this? Math is all about numbers right? So why do kids who need speech and language therapy sometimes need help with math? Math problems really do c
Teaching basic concepts in speech therapy - critical to a student’s academic success, being able to comprehend, communicate, and read.
Teaching basic concepts in speech therapy - critical to a student’s academic success, being able to comprehend, communicate, and read.
Looking for an interactive PDF for speech therapy that works with your whole caseload? Grab FREE interactive PDF that covers artic, lang, and social...
Easily implement these 5 research-based takeaways in your vocabulary instruction! Grab a free Tier 2 activity to begin right away!
Teaching basic concepts in speech therapy - critical to a student’s academic success, being able to comprehend, communicate, and read.
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Make Basic Concepts Fun With These Simple Activities by Speech and Language at Home. What are Basic Concepts and What Makes Them Important? Words that describe the physical world are generally considered “basic concepts,” and they’re incredibly important building blocks for language development and
Free BASIC CONCEPTS SAMPLER Free sample pages from basic concepts resources! Includes temporal, emotions, and prepositions concepts. No prep, print-and-go pages, or just open on your device! These pages are left open-ended for flexibility for what you want to target and how difficult you want it to be. The perfect addition to your speech therapy […]
Teaching grammar intervention in speech therapy! Grammar strategies, guides, choosing goals, activities, and more!
Planning for Teletherapy can be so challenging and time consuming! Here is a list of all of my favorite tele-therapy websites to help make planning easier!
Categories in speech therapy! Categories are a foundation for how we learn, relate, store, and recall words. Discover speech therapy activities and more.
Focus on connection & relationship driven communication with these speech room posters. Choose between two styles to decorate your speech room with helpful strategies for conducting early intervention & pediatric speech therapy sessions. The OWL, ROCK, Four S's, and Four I's enable speech pathologists, teachers, and parents to make meaningful connections when interacting with little ones.
A list of the essential speech therapy materials needed for any SLP or SLPA. Plus, our very best free materials that you can download now!
I thought I would share some cool “bug” resources I have found on TPT and other blogs in case you were wanting some more “bug” activities to use in your therapy rooms. Last year, I used Speech Room News fun craftivity that goes along with the book In The Tall, Tall Grass. It was perfect […]
Are you looking for math centers that can stay up year long and be used with many math concept? Try out this simple and engaging game and activity!
Quality, affordable speech therapy activities available to download in an instant! Printable materials for preschoolers and children who need help with early language development. Click here to read more...
This is a re-do of a kindergarten and first grade set of math common core vocabulary assessments based on Marzano's book, Vocabulary for the Common Core. I've added progress monitoring tables, and a bonus Bingo game, and relisted the combined assessments on Teachers Pay Teachers for a modest stipend. Go to the bottom of the page for the link. This assessment has helped drive some of my therapy with the younger kids. ---------------(from March 2014) Service delivery for my kids has changed over the decades---now for my regular education kids, I try to go into the classroom as much as possible. Often, there are strategies and a little coaching that needs done and the child is able to do reasonably well, or at least participate in the curriculum with his peers. With the old familiar curriculum, the NC Standard Course of Study, I felt like the classroom was a comfortable place to go--I knew the expectations and I knew how to help. Then things changed, rather abruptly, with the introduction of the Common Core. I'm not anti-common core, but I'm finding that for the two curriculum areas--language arts and math, there are lofty language and verbal problem solving expectations, and my kids, with language deficits and vocabulary difficulties, struggle mightily. Someone like the teachers and me needs to fill in the holes, but what are the holes to fill? Teachers struggle with appropriate interventions, not knowing how to easily find the gaps in prior learning. Often when I go into the classrooms now during math, the teachers are so intent on teaching the higher level thinking skills to the class, my children are left in the dark, since they lack the understanding of some of the basic concepts which are being used in classroom discussions. Somewhere, in someone's blog, I read about this resource, Vocabulary for the Common Core, and being in need such a book, I purchased it (with my own money, of course. Don't get me started on the lack of instructional funding in NC!). This is full of vocabulary lists arranged by topics both in language arts and math by grade level K-12. I can now begin to fill in gaps in my children's learning! A current student of mine is in the first grade and struggling in math, and so to assist the teacher in creating math interventions, I have started with kindergarten math vocabulary lists from this book and created an informal Common Core vocabulary assessment to determine if this child understands kindergarten language concepts (prerequisites to his current first grade placement). Words in this assessment include 'first' 'last' 'part' 'whole' 'addition' 'subtraction' 'rectangle' and 'number line' (plus others). Another skill was whether the student could verbally compare two different shapes. I did not include concepts introduced in first grade (since my child is in first grade, the teacher should be instructing him at that level), nor did I include items that solely seemed 'math' such as counting, computation, and identifying numbers. I also left off words pertaining to measurement. Prepositions were not included since I have another assessment for that. These concepts here seemed to be the most commonly occurring concepts out of the kindergarten math list in Marzano's book. Screen shots from my assessment are shown here. I did try it out on my little guy in first grade, and glaring deficits became readily apparent. How can he begin to comprehend 'part-part-whole' for addition, when he doesn't understand 'part'? (e.g. When asked to color part of a square, he traced it. When asked to color the whole square, he traced it again.) The teacher of this student in question was so excited about this because it gave her a starting place for interventions in the classroom and it gave me some easily identifiable concepts to work on. That made me happy :) Click here to download the informal common core math vocabulary kindergarten and first grade assessment. Includes Progress Monitoring Tables, and bonus bingo game. 18 pages total. BONUS BINGO GAME INCLUDED FOR KINDERGARTEN MATH VOCABULARY!!!! .
This quick and easy way to teach positional words is super engaging to students! All you need is a solo cup, a bear manipulative, and a permanent marker! To prep this activity, you will need to draw a “door” on the solo cups. We call the cup “Mr. Bear’s House,” so it has a playful ... Read More about Positional Words
FOUR interactive and customizable PowerPoint games for speech therapy - in person or teletherapy! Play right away or customize using the instructions provided within the resource. Add your own questions/photos/site words/math problems, etc. on the customizable deck of cards! GINGERBREAD COOKIE CATCH: Click on a gingerbread cookie to try and catch it! Keep trying til you catch one and win the game! You catch a different cookie every game! Works for articulation practice, core vocabulary, winter vocabulary, and more! Possible targets: My turn, your turn, get him, oh no, he go away, go again, this one, etc. HANUKKAH COOKIE CRUNCH: Click a cookie to eat it! If you find a candle cookie, click on the shamash (the middle candle) to light another candle on the menorah. When the menorah is all lit, the game is over! Works for articulation practice, core vocabulary, position word basic concepts, and more! Possible targets: My turn, your turn, on top/bottom, next to, is it there, oh no, go again, this one, etc. POP-UP SNOWMAN: Click the spin button to make the spinner go. Click it again to make it stop! Click on a snowflake to take it out. When you click the “right” snowflake, the snowman will pop out! Click anywhere else on the screen to advance to the next game! Works for articulation practice, core vocabulary, winter vocabulary, and more! Possible targets: My turn, your turn, make it go, make it stop, come out!, not yet, not out, go again, yes!, he came out! POP-UP ELF: Click the on a present to shake it. When you click the “right” present, the elf will pop out! Click on the “You Win!” picture to advance to the next game! Works for describing words, core vocabulary, winter vocabulary, and more! Possible targets: Color words, this one, shake it, no elf, again, there, red with white stars, come out, where are you?, etc.
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We had been discussing and using positional words in my class of four year olds. One of our favorite songs, is There's A Spider ...
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Use these adorable preposition word wall cards to help your little learners remember all of their prepositions in Language. Use as a word wall or as flash cards. Teachers are encouraged to laminate the preposition word wall cards to prolong their longevity. ...
A school based SLP navigating the muddy waters of low budgets, high numbers and a wide variety of student needs. These are some of my therapy ideas, tricks, tips and activities!
Help kids learn before and after with this free worksheet. Kids are asked to look at the shapes in the boxes and answer questions about which are before and after others. This worksheet makes a nice addition to any kindergarten lesson plan and is great for any children learning about before and after. Click the link or image below to view and print your copy.
Full disclosure: I used keywords when teaching my students how to solve word problems. I had a K-5 classroom for students with autism. There were so many different learning styles and needs just within my small class. In addition, these students, for the most part, were severely affected. Many did not speak, most did not […]
Planning and prepping differentiated math centers can be simple when using the Math Workshop framework. Less prep time and greater student growth is a win-win.
These flash cards address the positional concepts of above and below. I have included 24 cards. Click here to download!
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