Speech Time Fun: Speech and Language Activities
Sharing the fun from one speech room to another!
Do you have students with goals that you are unsure how to target in a different way so that they can finally grasp it and make progress? Today I’m talking all about working on main idea. Many of our students need to be able to work on higher level thinking skills when it comes to their language comprehension to…
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Do you struggle to find what vocabulary words you should work on with your older speech students since there are so many words that they struggle with? Today I am going to be sharing with you a free tool called vocab grabber that’s going to help you determine what vocabulary words your students might struggle with and how you…
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Do you have students who struggle to find the appropriate evidence in a text when answering higher-level thinking questions? Do you have students that underline everything under the sun when it comes time to take notes or look for key details? Today we are going to be talking all about how to explicitly teach relevant and irrelevant details in…
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Do you have students who are able to answer wh questions but are still unable to answer questions related to a text that they’re using in the classroom or speech room? I know it can be a struggle to know how to work on relevant goals for your speech students yet also find a different way to teach them that…
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Do you have students that can compare and contrast apples and bananas but struggle when it comes to reading comprehension or taking it to age-appropriate comparing and contrasting? Today we are talking all about comparing and contrasting with your older speech students. Many teachers have already taught our students about using Venn Diagrams and it’s not working, so what are…
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Do you have students with conjunction goals? Are you looking for other ways to teach Conjunctions to your students that you haven’t already used time and time again? Or maybe you think your students could benefit from some complex sentence goals? Today we are talking about all of the above! Why would we work on conjunctions!? If you have…
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Do you have any older students who are participating in a vocational skills program? Speech time is a great opportunity to work on some vocational skills activities! Here are some time-saving tips for working on speech and vocational skills simultaneously! Cooking Cooking involves more than just putting ingredients together to make a meal! Students also need to learn to shop,…
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If you listen when your students are coming into school in the morning or while they are chatting in the lunch room, you’ll be sure to hear snippets of conversation about video games, TV shows, movies, sports stars, and more! Pop culture is something that most kids love talking about, and we can harness the power of this high-interest topic…
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We all know that older kids don’t want to be singled out. And when their classmates are reading chapter books while they are still struggling with phonological awareness, then doing activities that aren’t engaging or fun can really reduce student buy-in! Luckily, there are some great activities that you can do to get your students excited about phonological awareness! Let’s…
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Whether your students have specific vocabulary goals or they are simply trying to learn curriculum vocabulary, teaching vocabulary is a must during speech time! But when we take into account all of the vocabulary words for all of the subjects your student is taking, this can seem like a daunting task! How can we teach students how to define curriculum…
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