Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
Do you want to find motivating games for the older students on your caseload? Although I do not work with that age group now, I have worked with them in the past. It is a very difficult group to work with. Curriculum expectations are getting more intense, self awareness kicks in, and planning can be a nigh ...
5 ways to help keep your middle and high school aged students engaged while working on conversational skills in speech therapy.
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
A public speaking unit needs to provide time for students to practice their speeches while providing structure and diverse speaking opportunities.
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
Social communication skills are some of the most valuable skills we can teach our students.
Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links for your convenience. I can't believe it's already Wednesday again! I've got another great product in store for you, but this week's feature is a little bit different. Instead of featuring a TpT product (which I promise I'll get back to doing next week!!) I'm reviewing a product that I know many people were wondering about- Word Feast Middle School! I've been using this book, along with the Elementary version for my young kiddos, for almost a month now. The layout of the book makes it incredibly easy to teach the vocabulary. Every section starts out with a page like this. The page includes the new words that your student will learn, as well as words from the previous lessons (which I think is wonderful!). Prompts are included as to how to start the session, such as what questions to ask your students to get them thinking about what they will be talking about during that lesson. The page also includes the pages of the reading passages and activities in the lesson. After the initial page, there are your reading excerpts. There's always one longer story that uses all of the vocabulary words in it. The vocab words are bolded in the text to make them easier to find. The next page or two include additional reading passages where the vocab is used. I really like these pages- they are usually set up as ads or postcards, something small that our students might see in real life that includes the vocabulary words. The page(s) after that include the definitions of the vocabulary words. I like them being here instead of first in the lesson. Why? Because I like seeing if my students know the definition before we start the lesson. I will read the words and ask if they had heard these words before. I write down what they think the definitions are on a white board. As we read each reading passage, I ask my students if their idea for the definition has changed. You'll be surprised how one context suddenly makes the definition clear to a student over another context! What I love about these definition pages are that it includes its part of speech, the definition, a usage tip, and then correct vs. incorrect usage of the word. After we review the word's definition and talk about its usage tip, I say both sentences, in random order so the correct sentence isn't always first, and ask which sentence had the vocabulary word being used the right way. After we go over the definitions, I usually have them put some (if not all) of their words in a vocabulary graphic organizer. You can find the one I use here. The next pages are the activities where you can apply the vocabulary words that your students have learned. Here are a few examples.... Other examples of activities include Association Activities, Synonyms and Antonyms, and Create your own Sentences. There are many activities to do that apply your students' knowledge of the vocabulary words. I'm not saying that this should replace your work with curriculum vocab, it most definitely should not. But it is a wonderful supplement that introduces your students to more Tier 2 words that they might not get in school. So what do I love? In addition to everything above, let me tell you a few more things.... The lessons are age appropriate. Aside from getting things from your students' textbooks, it is often hard to find passages that expand and build upon each other like you can find here. The lessons increase in difficulty, challenging your students more and more as you go. Also, the lessons are mostly curricular based. The vocabulary are Tier 2 words, which is oh so important for our middle school population. The vocabulary words are repeated throughout the entire book. A word you use in one lesson may reappear in following lessons. I purchased these books on my own. Linguisystems did not provide me with these books in exchange for my review. Have you used the Word Feast books in therapy? What do you think??
Speech therapy for older children with articulation disorders can be challenging. Here are some tips for assessment, treatment, and carryover.
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
The Ultimate Guide to Middle School Speech Therapy Activities provides Speech Language Pathologists a reference point for easily locating educational resources for older students. Many children are able to master their speech goals in elementary school and no longer require therapy services. But all too often we have s
SLPs know that older students in speech therapy often need fresh, new activities to stay engaged. Using logic is a great strategy to draw in middle school and high school students into articulation practice.
Use this outline to teach students in upper elementary, middle
Blog post about teaching sarcasm in speech therapy including how to detect sarcasm and when it's acceptable to use it.
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What you need to know about teaching parts of speech in middle school and high school. Plus, FIVE creative ways to teach parts of speech you can print for free. Students need to be able to construct quality sentences that communicate information accurately and clearly. Understanding parts of speech
The Ultimate Guide to High School Speech Therapy Activities provides Speech Language Pathologists a reference point for easily locating educational resources for older students. Many children are able to master their speech goals in elementary or middle school and no longer require therapy services. But all too often w
Public Speaking Games: 7 outrageously good fun-filled speech activities to build confidence and skills. Good for middle school upwards.
Which speech outline should your students use? Lots of choices exist, mostly topic or sentence outlines. Help your students narrow it down!
A lesson plan for teaching personal space to your middle and high school students during speech therapy or special education sessions.
Hi! So, if you have been following me, you know that I have stepped into the world of middle school this year. Two days a week I hang out with the "I'm too cool for school" crowd... just kidding... sort of. While my middle school students are mostly sweet and funny, sometimes I am just one more person trying to make them do work and speech is just one more thing taking away their study hall time. Some days, I can tell that speech is just NOT where they want to be. I get it. Many of them have to have extra reading classes, constantly have working lunch instead of getting to just hang out with their friends like other students, their study halls are taken away to go receive extra help (or speech), and some even have after school resource time. On days where I can tell that my students have just had too much, I set my plans aside and pull out something a little less stressful: a board game. Now mind you, the games still allow the students to practice their language skills - it's just a little more low key and more fun. Here are some games that I have found to be a hit with my middle schoolers while still focusing on language and pragmatic skills. {Affiliate links provided for your convenience} I play this game the traditional way, as well as backwards by having the students give adjectives to label the noun. It's a great game for working on descriptions as well as defending opinions. I love In a Pickle! It's a fun way to talk about word relationships as well as more defending opinions. Keep your eyes peeled fro Cranium's Whoonu at a thrift shop - it is a fun game for a social skills group. It helps students get to know each other and gets them talking about topics other than Minecraft and video games (which I now know far more about than I ever wanted to know). Bubble Talk is a fantastic game for students working on understanding facial expression, perspective taking, and making inferences. Definitely an essential for your middle school supply arsenal. You've Been Sentenced was another great thrift shop find. Students must use the words on the pentagon shaped cards to make a grammatically correct coherent sentence. The other players act as judges and must give a yay or nay to the sentence, which means everybody is actively involved. I first played Man Bites Dog when another SLP brought it into the office at the rehab facility I work at part time. After playing it, I had to have it for my middle schoolers! Students work on creating headlines using the cards they are given. It is great for targeting word order and vocabulary. I also add a rule that the students must state 3 details that could be included to target main idea vs details. I recently purchased Funglish and it has been a big hit with my competitive students. Students must use word tiles to describe a word while others attempt to guess the word. The only thing I don't like about this game is the timer can be a little short for some of my students who are low readers. I just used the timer on my cell phone to give them a little bit more time. I lucked out and found Moods already in my therapy room at school. It is great for my students working on understanding and expressing emotions. Students are given a sentence and must say it with a given emotion (which usually the sentence does not match the expected emotion). The other students try to guess the emotion based on the student's tone of voice and body language. Another lucky find from the SLP who was at my middle school before me: Blurt. This game is great for word finding and vocabulary building. Students are given a definition and then must come up with a word to match the definition. I take away the racing component and have all students write down an answer they think works and then give points. Otherwise I find that some of my students just cannot keep up. Say the Word is a different style game in that it is a cooperative game. The students must work together to win the game instead of playing against each other. I like this because it forces my students to communicate with each other and work together as a team. In this game, students must create a story using words on a cards that are drawn. Each person must start from the beginning of the story and then add on a part of the story when it gets to their turn. If they forget a part of the story, the other students can give clues (the directions say to act out the clues, but you know - its speech. I have the students give clues without saying the word). I also add a rule that the students must include story grammar elements to form a complete story instead of random events with no clear story line. This game is great for working as a team, auditory memory, and narrative language. Do you work with older students? Comment and share what your favorite language games are! ~Erin Follow
Working on conversation skills with older students? The January social skills lesson plan for middle and high school students is full of activities for speech therapy!
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
Teach the eight parts of speech with creativity and engagement. The eight parts of speech should be fun grammar activities.
Middle & High School Speech Therapy Vocabulary Bundle THREE different vocabulary products are included in this Middle & High School Speech Therapy Vocabulary Bundle: Vocabulary Strategies with LOTS of Visuals for Middle & High School Students Middle & High School Speech Therapy Vocabulary Activities Two Middle & High School Speech Therapy Vocabulary Graphic Organizers All THREE of these product were designed for middle and high school students. Middle and high school students are learning to become more independent in their ability to decipher meaning of unknown vocabulary words, comprehend meanings of newly learned vocabulary words, and retain meanings of newly learned vocabulary words. These THREE products build vocabulary skills in all three areas. The vocabulary strategy visuals, speech therapy vocabulary activities, and vocabulary graphic organizers provide structure for speech/language sessions.
Working on conversation skills with older students? The January social skills lesson plan for middle and high school students is full of activities for speech therapy!
Check out these middle school (and high school) speech therapy activities and materials for effective and motivating sessions in secondary!
Use this outline to teach students in upper elementary, middle
188 funny how to speech topics because demonstration speeches don't always need to be either useful or serious.☺ Go on, chose a topic to make them laugh!
SLPs know that older students in speech therapy often need fresh, new activities to stay engaged. Using logic is a great strategy to draw in middle school and high school students into articulation practice.
Simulations in speech class? Sure! Get students speaking in front of an audience as they would in real life for an authetnic experience.
Are you constantly searching for middle school speech and language therapy activities? Working on speech and language skills with middle school aged students can be tough but making sure that you are staying up to
Teaching rhetorical analysis is one of my absolute favorite units to complete with my students. I love teaching my students about rhetorical strategies and devices, analyzing what makes an effective and persuasive argument, and reading critical speeches with my students. Here is a quick list of some of my favorite speeches for rhetorical analysis.
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My last blog post gave you 8 tips for working with high school students, but you may still be wondering where to find engaging and age-appropriate materials for secondary speech therapy. I've scoured my therapy room, social media, and the internet to find some of the best materials for high school
Unique, humorous, droll, absurd, zany and ridiculous speech topic ideas for funny persuasive speeches. Suitable for high school students upward. Go on, make your audience smile!
Make students laugh while also teaching satire, irony, and other literary devices.
What’s your first thought when you get a new middle school student working on articulation? “What speech therapy activities will motivate this student AND facilitate progress?” Yep, me too. As an SLP serving kindergarten through 12th grade via teletherapy, I regularly see middle and high school students with articulation goals. And I learned that my cute build-a-scene Boom Card activities are not going to get a 9th grader to take me seriously. Over the last several years, I have been on the hunt
Social skills blog post about perspective-taking activities with middle high school students, including youtube links and a Halloween freebie!
Speech therapy games for middle school can be a great way to engage older students in speech therapy! Middle school students sometimes don’t want to come to speech therapy – at least that has been my experience. Gone are the happy kindergarteners who volunteered to go to speech … and replaced by grumpy students who are
