Category "Freebies"

9Feb2019

Spring is just around the corner so as you start to prep for spring speech therapy I put together a list of awesome FREE spring speech therapy activities to get you going!

First is my Free Spring Sequencing Cut and Glue Pages! This includes activities for 3, 4, and 5 step sequences!

Free Spring Sequencing Speech Therapy Activities

Next up is my Free Spring Prepositions and Spatial Concepts Cut and Glue Book. So fun and interactive!

Free Spring Prepositions Cover

I also have a Free Spring Categories Activities that are great for preschool and kindergarten speech students working on sorting!

Free Spring Categories Cover Large

I also have a free Spring Interactive Book Pack called Bunny Needs a Bath! It’s a fun way to practice answering “WH” questions and labeling colors!

Free Spring Interactive Book

 

Lastly, I have a great free “Bear Wants More” interactive smash mat activity for one of my favorite spring books: “Bear Wants More” by Karma Wilson.

Bear Wants More Free Activity

 

12Jul2018

Teaching pronouns to children with autism or language delays can be so tricky! Learning to correctly use “he” and “she” and especially “my” and “your” can take lots of repetitions and practice for our little ones! Here are some of my favorite ideas for teaching pronouns in speech therapy sessions in an interactive and fun way (no flash cards!).

My number one requested game by my students for teaching the pronouns is this Yum Yum Pronouns Interactive Game.

Speech Therapy Game for Teaching Pronouns

Kids love feeding the kids food and get tons of practice with “he”, “she” and “they”. I don’t mind pulling it out frequently because it’s also great for speech therapy groups with mixed goals. I can target plurals, verbs, sentence structure, expanding utterances, and more with it!

Another activity that is constantly out on my therapy table are Interactive Sentence Flips for targeting pronouns. The one I use most frequently is Pronouns and Verbs Interactive Sentence Flips – People Actions.

Pronouns Action Flips Main Cover

These are super effective at teaching pronouns because the child moves an interactive visual cue to make the correct sentence for each picture cue. This helps demonstrate the need to change the pronoun to make a sentence that makes sense for each picture of the people.

Action Flips 3 word Preview

I think teaching the pronouns “my” and “your” is the trickiest of all! These are so confusing to our little ones with language delays! One fun way I have worked on my/your is using this Make a Monster Game for Pronouns, Attributes, Following Directions, and Giving Directions.

Make a Monster Speech Therapy Game for Pronouns

The Make a Monster pack has pieces for creating different monsters and sentence stems with visual cues for practicing describing the monsters using “My” and “Your”.

I also have a free resource available for practicing “my” and “your”! This Free Interactive Visual for Teaching “My” and “Your” is a simple interactive communication board for describing what clothes either you or your communication partner are wearing using the sentence “My/your _____ is/are (color).” I have found this is a very helpful and concrete way for practicing “my” and “your.”

Free Activity for Teaching Pronouns

 

16Sep2016

I am so excited to teach tier two vocabulary to my speech kids this year and it’s all because of two words: Interactive Notebooks! I have always struggled on how to integrate teaching vocabulary in a systematic way into our weekly speech therapy groups. This year my caseload contains a large group of upper elementary students who have language disorders and most are English Language Learners so effectively teaching vocabulary is a major necessity! I am so grateful that I have my Tier Two Vocabulary Curriculum and Interactive Notebooks to lead the way!

There is a unit with tier two academic vocabulary that corresponds to grade appropriate vocabulary for 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade. The units are great for using in a general education classroom or with special education students. At each grade level, 30 words are taught which are divided up into 5 subunits (6 words taught in each subunit). In the graphic below, you can see how my students set up their Interactive Vocabulary Notebooks. My students love creating their notebooks and are so much more engaged in learning the vocabulary words because of the interactive nature of the activities.Interactive Notebook ExamplesThere are also worksheets included for practicing the vocabulary words and checking for comprehension. Data sheets are also included to track your student’s progress. There are also game cards for use with any turn-taking game and “apples to apples” style game cards for extra practice. Finally, there are word wall cards in a variety of styles included so you can make a bulletin board display with the vocabulary words.

If you would like to use the interactive vocabulary page templates from the packs with your own vocabulary, I have made those available for FREE here: Free Interactive Vocabulary Notebook Templates

Free Vocabulary Graphic Organizer and Interactive Notebook Templates

The Tier Two Vocabulary Curriculum and Interactive Notebook Combo Pack is available on Teachers Pay Teachers! You can click the image below to scoop it up!

2Mar2016

Spring is here! Here are some great FREE speech and language activities with a spring theme!

First up, FIVE spring freebies from the Communication Window Teachers Pay Teachers shop!

Free Spring Sequencing Cut and Glue Worksheets

Free Spring Sequencing Worksheets

Free Spring Categories Cut Color and Glue:

Spring Categories FreebieFree Spring Prepositions Interactive Cut and Glue Book

Free Spring Prepositions

Free Bunny Needs a Bath! Interactive Book

Bunny Needs a BathSpring Roll-A-Dice Freebies: Open-Ended, Synonyms, and Compare/Contrast

Spring Roll a Dice

Here are some other great spring freebies from other TPT sellers:

Butterfly Associations: 42 cards for identified associated items

Easter Pronouns: cute picture cards for working on pronouns

Spring Showers Following Directions: following directions game for 1, 2, and 3 step directions

Spring Ordinal Numbers and Positional Words: love these cute cut and glue worksheets for following directions!

Spring Build Your Own Bingo: great for spring vocabulary, I also like to use for following directions (i.e. glue the chick under the egg)

Categories in Springtime: adorable spring categories activities, includes pictures for non-readers!

Would You Rather Spring and Easter: great for conversation starters or artic carryover!

Spring Garden Following Directions: cute coloring page for following directions

24Feb2016

Even if you don’t celebrate St. Patrick’s Day it is a fun theme to use in speech therapy! Here is a list of fantastic FREE speech and language activities to help with your planning!

First up, a freebie from the Communication Window TPT store!

Spring Roll a Dice

Spring Roll a Dice Freebies – Open Ended, Synonyms, and Compare/Contrast

Here are some other freebies I have found:

Pot of Gold Go Togethers: cute associations game with pictures for non-readers

Lucky Leprachaun’s Listening Comprehension: 14 short stories with comprehension questions, works well as a no-print activity!

St. Patrick’s Day Following Directions Before/After Concepts: fun seasonal activity for before/after concepts

St. Patty’s Directions: avoid the leprachaun and practice 1, 2, and 3 step directions!

St. Patrick’s Day Categories: low-prep activity for practicing categories

Logical Leprechauns Problem Solving: cute scenarios for students to practice problem solving and “what should you do?” type questions

Idioms: Worth Their Weight in Gold Task Cards: 10 task cards and a recording sheet for practicing idioms

Follow the Clues: St. Patrick’s Day Edition: fun game for practicing descriptive language and inferencing

St. Patrick’s Day Build Your Own Bingo: love these for vocabulary, describing, inferencing, and following directions

St. Patrick’s Day Comprehension and Bubble Map Sheets: great for reading comprehension and using graphic organizers to describe