Speech Time Fun: Speech and Language Activities
Sharing the fun from one speech room to another!
Determining problem and solution is one of those skills that is addressed in just about every grade over the course of each year. Beginning in 4th grade, students are expected to “Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology, comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events, ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a text.” CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.5. This concept is extended to…
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Conjunctions may seem like tiny parts of speech, but they make a big difference when it comes to expressive language goals like syntax, narrative development, and utterance expansion. Let’s take a look at how to make learning about conjunctions fun when kids come to the speech room! What Are Conjunctions? While we use conjunctions every day, we probably don’t give…
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Social studies is one of those subjects that students either love or hate. Many kids love learning about the history of our country and other countries, learning where different things in the world are located, and learning about our system of government- and others really don’t see the point! Maybe you’re wondering what challenges our speech students have with social…
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Today, I’d like to talk about some very cool people- high school students! Yes, high schoolers are some of the coolest people on the planet. For the most part, you can have great conversations with them, and their interests, hopes, and dreams for post-high school are so much fun to hear about. However, some high school students will need some…
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If you’re an SLP working in an elementary school, the bulk of your caseload may be made up of students in the younger grades. There is a good reason for that! According to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), “The prevalence of voice, speech, language, or swallowing disorders is highest among children ages 3-6 (11.0 percent),…
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Figurative language can be such a fun part of language arts instruction for all ages! When students read about and write with figurative language, it is playful and imaginative. Things like similes, idioms, and hyperbole do not use English words in a literal sense. This can make working with figurative language very difficult for students with language delays. However, there…
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As SLPs, an important part of our job is to support what the general education teachers are doing in their classrooms. One of the ways that general education teachers teach reading comprehension of nonfiction texts is through the use of text structures. Learning about text structures can lead to some fun activities in the speech room! Let’s take a look…
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Have you ever heard of “chunking”? Many students have a “chunking” accommodation on their IEP in order to assist with reading comprehension. This is a great strategy, but just what is chunking? How can we use it to aid reading comprehension? What is Chunking? Simply put, chunking is breaking down a text into smaller pieces, or “chunks”. Think about it….
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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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