Today I wanted to share how I used ONE book to work on MANY things over the course of a month of speech therapy sessions...January! We used the book Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers. (affiliate link) Session #1: Read the book and make our penguins We read the book first! It's a precious story about a little boy who finds a penguin on his porch. He assumes the penguin is lost so he tries to find someone who knows where he came from. He then researches penguins and finds that they come ... Read More about Lost and Found by Oliver Jeffers: A Speech, Language and Literacy unit
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Descriptive Language Activity: Detectives Search it Out!
Today I bring to you another activity from my TpT store: Descriptive Detectives. These detectives use clues to figure out the words being described. Instructions are included how to introduce the activity including vocabulary words students may not be familiar with, advance to a memory game where students try to figure out the clues and identify which cards they have in their hand. Complete a case file on a Tier 2 vocabulary word by using semantic features to solve the case. The final ... Read More about Descriptive Language Activity: Detectives Search it Out!
Constructing Sentences: Speech Therapy
When I started therapy with this year's group of kids, I discovered we had one thing we needed to work on first: Making a sentence. Not only for the language delayed kids, but also for my ESL and articulation delayed kiddos, making sentences was not an easy task. I tried modeling, written and visual prompts, more modeling with no good carryover. How hard IS IT to remember the word "THE" and the word "IS" and stick another word in there that is pictured?!? Evidently more so than I EVER thought ... Read More about Constructing Sentences: Speech Therapy