Speech Time Fun: Speech and Language Activities
Sharing the fun from one speech room to another!
As speech therapists, we teach a wide range of skills. One of the skills that is the hardest for both speech therapists and classroom teachers to teach is inferencing. Most students can answer literal questions a lot more easily than inferential questions, so it takes explicit instruction on thinking skills to help our students learn how to answer inferential questions! …
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Have you noticed a trend with any of your older speech students? Perhaps some of the little children who used to eagerly skip off to speech time are now dragging their feet. Their friends are testing out of speech services, but they still need some work. All of a sudden, students who you may have had for years no longer…
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When you think of project-based learning, you might think of something cross-curricular, done in a large group, where all of the students in the classroom participate. This model lends itself to utilizing inclusive practices, and is a great model to use for inclusive classrooms! However, if we reframe our thinking of how project-based learning “should” look, we can see that…
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Author’s Purpose is a reading strategy that is commonly taught in elementary schools across the country. According to the Common Core State Standards, beginning in second grade, students need to be able to determine why an author has written a passage. Additionally, as students advance, they are expected to be able to use text evidence to show what the author’s…
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With St. Patrick’s Day happening this week, I have prepared a round-up for you! I have included my St. Patrick’s Day activities present and past and more! Check out my favorite activities and freebies for St. Patrick’s Day! My St. Patrick’s Day Activities: St. Patrick’s Day Word Fun (Pre K – 8) When I created my popular word fun downloads…
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Want to incorporate the Winter Olympics in your speech room with your older students? It can be a challenge to incorporate motivating themes into your speech room. But you may be shocked to learn that our students are motivated by things going on around the world. They love sports. They love the snow. They like competitions. Whether or not…
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Are your students obsessed with video games like mine? Are you looking for more ways to use their interests in your speech room to keep them motivated and engaged in working on their speech goals? Here are 3 ways to incorporate video games in your lessons without actually playing a video game! Way number one is Mysterydoug. It’s a free…
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Are you looking for more ways to help benefit your speech students and help boost their skills so you see some carry-over in their academic classrooms? Today I want to talk to you about character traits. When we’re working with our older speech students we want to find a way to align our speech goals with what they’re working on…
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Are you tired of coming up with new and engaging therapy activities, especially this time of year? Today I’m so excited to share with you a free website that you can use to work on a variety of goals. If you’re not familiar with me and my therapy style, I am all about using as few resources as possible and…
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Are you looking for fresh new ideas to keep you inspired and your students engaged and not knowing what is going to happen when they come into your speech room? When you want to keep your students on their toes but don’t want to spend hours planning and prepping, you need Mystery Bags! I can prep a mystery bag in…
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