We have been SO busy in my speech room! Trying to squeeze every creative juice before annual review season takes over my life! A quick little vocab review I did with my students today was to review multiple meaning words (or MMW as I like to call it!). I called it THE MMW scavenger hunt! Students had to work together…
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Are you ready for some football?!?!
You can’t avoid it, you see commericals, signs, talking everywhere…the Super Bowl is on it’s way! My students LOVE sports and if it’s motivating I use it! I have included in this post 3 different activities for different levels and goals. I have used my “Football Sentences” worksheet as a review of football vocabulary using cloze sentences. I have even…
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Apps Fun
Had so much fun with my speech kiddies today!! Had fun following and giving directions with my 6th graders. I got this cute activity off of ESLprintables (free website just have to have log in and earn points by having people download your activities. find it here I was shocked to find my “lower” students did better than my “higher”…
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More Groundhog’s Day Fun Ideas
Now I’m in the Groundhog’s Day spirit! Below I have two new ideas you can use with your speech students this week! First, I created a cute little compare/contrast activity. Students can work together to complete the Venn Diagram or they can have a competition and see who can come up with the most items! I don’t know why it’s…
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Groundhog’s Day is around the corner!
So I as was trying to think of some activities to use with my speech students next week, I noticed that Groundhog’s day is next week (Thursday, February 2nd). I am working with many of my students to improve their ability to attend to auditory information in order to verbally recall details. I have created a “Guess the Groundhog” activity to…
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Miss Speechie’s Top 10 Therapy Must-Haves (in no particular order): 1. Jenga: This motivating and fun game can be used in a variety of ways. Whether it is to make drilling more engaging by letting the students take a turn after they use their target sounds or respond to a wh- question, or you can buy a cheap knock-off version…
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https://speechtimefun.com/miss-speechies-top-10-therapy-mus/
Although I always find I am complaining about the snow and cold weather every winter, I try to cheer myself up using winter themed materials with my students. One way I use winter is by using winter themed pictures to teach main idea. Students are given choices and have to choose the best sentence to describe the picture. grab it…
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The last few years, I have been trying to find the BEST way possible to teach inferencing to my 5th and 6th grade students. I created this sorting activity which teaches them the difference between sequencing clues and life experience/schema clues. grab it here The students can use fun sentences to learn to practice this skill here I have found…
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I’ve recently discovered this website click here to view. There are TONS of minibook samples and templates that could be used in a variety of ways in the therapy room. One idea I’m working on with my students is the flip flap book to work on main idea and sequencing. My students are drawing the main idea of the story on…
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https://speechtimefun.com/ive-recently-discovered-this-website/