While making an articulation activity, I found this image on Graphics Factory : I noticed that they offered a few other emotion image...
Great fun one-on-one or in small groups. Your students will love the challenge while building their vocabulary. How many items can they name in 30 seconds? Or roll the dice - will they have to name one or six? Included are 17 category game cards (e.g. "Name things that fly); and an instruction card. Simply print, laminate, cut out and enjoy! If you enjoyed this freebie, you may also enjoy: The Card Game version with 70 cards:Semantics Vocabulary Building Card Game or; The NO PRINT version with 75 pages:No Print Expressive Language Vocabulary Game If you enjoy this product, please leave a review at the product page or through "My Purchases" under "My Account". I hope you enjoy this product! Thank you for looking!
Recently I did a giveaway of my preschool speech language assessment checklist on my blog. I had so much fun doing it, that I decided I can't just stop there, so I am going to do a giveaway of my school aged checklist as well. For those of you unfamiliar with it - it's a 12
Here is another worksheet addressing the language concept of "not." This is a difficult concept to target, which is why I have made so many materials to work on it! Lots of repetitive practice is needed. You could also work on this using a set of real life objects (e.g., "Give me everything that is NOT blue. Give me all of the dolls that are NOT boys"). Click here to download!
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This is a follow up to my previous post about getting students to answer WH questions. Knowing how to answer questions isn't enough. After students have basic question answering skills they need to apply those skills to comprehension and fact recall questions. After all, that's what we need to be able to do in conversation. There are lots of ways to do this. I like to start at the level of sentences and work my way up. It's actually amazing how many of my kids can't do the following task: Read the story "Cindy has a small yellow car." Who has a car? What color is the car? Is the car big or small? Although, no longer surprised, when my student's can't do this, I'm always amazed at how they make it through the school day. So much of our learning is through auditory input and we test it by requiring them to answer questions. Link to document is below. There is a lot of practice material at the sentence level out there. Super Duper has a Auditory Memory for Details in Sentences deck that isn't in my possession, but is on my wish list. Their Auditory Adventures Pack does have a few pages of practice material at this level. As I am working on this skill with groups of 3-4 students, I quickly ran out of practice material. As a solution, so I made a list of my own. The Google Doc is here. After kids pass the sentences level there are lots of things you can do. Super duper has a bunch of other card decks that I use frequently. The Auditory Memory for Short Stories is great for elementary ages, where the Auditory Memory For Science Stories and the Auditory Memory for Science Stories are great for my 6th through 8th grade students. The No-Glamour Listening Comphrension Book by Linguisystems has a lot of stories at varying levels. As fun as the fancy card decks and materials are, my absolute favorite thing to use in therapy is picture books. There are so many questions you can ask about the stories and they are a GREAT way to engage kids in the therapy sessions. My favorite series are the Clifford and Bernstein Bears book. I love Clifford for the variety of topics, the clear sentences have the right amount of content and the pictures are great for lower levels of questions in mixed groups. Bernstein Bears are a little more wordy, and you will spend more time reading, but they are FANTASTIC for discussing social skills for your middle and higher functioning autism students. (I pair them with the Berenstein Bears Learn to Share Game and have been getting excellent connections). For older kids I really enjoy the Dorreen Cronin Books. They have just the right amount of higher level vocabulary for good dicsussion with some of my lower level and ELL students. I have been doing push in sessions in a 5th grade special education / ELL groups and these books have been a huge hit. We did Duck for President during their Government unit and they all had a lot of fun. I've done a couple of her other books with them and they really enjoyed them. Another big hit was a Christmas Present from a friend of mine. It was a great book for discussing what was happening, the effects of large amounts of penguins and making predictions about what would happen if more penguins kept arriving. I did it about a month ago and my students are still talking about it! I recommend it for grades 4-6. I'm entering to win free apps and you should too! And another app giveaway
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Free parent-teacher conference forms to help guide your conversation and make sure you share everything you want and need to with parents.
Free parts of speech posters to display in your classroom. Download your free copy.
What is your best teaching tip for teaching figurative language? Well, I asked the same of my fan at The OC Blog on Facebook and they gave me tons! I compiled them all together for you to enjoy! Stop at The Organized Classroom Blog to say hello and grab your copy as well! See you ... Read More about Figurative Language eBook Freebie!
This is a 20 question analogies worksheet. It is good for practice, review, or even as a quiz. Analogies range in difficulty. It was designed with 4th graders in mind, but can be used with lower grades or even upper grades. Answers may vary.•Answer key included !We appreciate your comments and ratin...
When teaching figurative language to students, I find a visual really helps them get the concept. I asked my artist daughter to help me ...
WOO! HOO! I’m celebrating a PERSONAL MILESTONE in my TPT store! While this is not a TPT milestone, I am excited to share that I have recently surpassed selling 25,000 units (resources) in my store! I would like to thank everyone who has made this possible. Thank you for the confidence you have shown in me by purchasing my resources to use with your students. I appreciate each and every one of you. I hope your students become successful learners through the use of my creations. Please enjoy this nine page FREEBIE that offers some samples of my creations along with links to many of my best selling resources. This freebie is mostly geared toward the winter months since this is when I surpassed this personal milestone. A few of the pages included are shown below. Click on any of the photos to view the entire FREEBIE! I would also like to thank all of the very talented artists on TPT that create such amazing clip art for me to use in my resources. They really help bring the resources to life! Please let me know how you like this freebie by leaving me some FEEDBACK so that I can better meet your needs! Thank you so much! ENJOY! Please visit me at: BLOG FACEBOOK PAGE PINTEREST TPT STORE Thanks for stopping by!
Here is a simple farm animal guessing game I made for language delayed kiddos. It is great for working on categories, attributes, inferen...
Additional activities to enrich your child's speech and language learning!
Hey friends! I hope your week is going fabulously!! I have been enjoying my second week off…I got totally obsessed with Orange is the New Black (on Netflix, if you don't know, you better ask somebody) and watched 2 seasons in 2 days. No my son was not home…totally inappropriate. Now I'm onto Scandal. Don't judge me.
Are you looking for a fun, easy way to target speech and language concepts in speech therapy? If so, then this product is for you! This PRINT AND GO product includes: 3 pages of Spatial Concepts 1 page of Temporal Concepts 2 pages of Quantitative Concepts 3 pages of Qualitative Concepts 1 page of Emotional Concepts Your students will enjoy using dot markers, colored pencils, or other art supplies as they work on their language goals and objectives. You may also be interested in the Language Edition, which includes Categories, Associations, and Negatives. If so, you can find it by clicking here. Dot "Artsy"- Language-Categories/Associations/Negatives Worksheets Or, you may be interested in the WH Questions Edition. If so, you can find it by clicking here. Dot Artsy with Pictures - WH Questions Edition - Activities/Worksheets
Prepare your students for successful oral presentations by identifying the
Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! My mom is going to probably get me tomorrow, but several of my friends and I were comparing early 80's pictures. We were supposed to find a picture from 1980 with our mom, but the closest one I could find was 1982. Since I was cute and it's over 30 years old, here's the picture I showed them :) If your mom is like mine, she helped you with projects, took you swimming, made your favorite meals, played Nintendo with you (AND sent you to bed while she continued to play), took you shopping for first day of school outfits, banquets, and other special events, and is now the person you send pictures to if you want to make sure something isn't tacky. Definitely in trouble tomorrow for the picture, but she loves me, so she will forgive me. Plus, I'm her mini me, so the picture of her is a skinny version of me today. This weekend has definitely been productive for me, but it has been one of those weekends where there's very little to share. Last week, I fought allergies every day. If it had been any other time of year, I probably would have take a day off to rest, but when it's this close to the end of the school year there are meetings almost every afternoon. Plus, I have to be honest, I am kind of proud of the fact that I've only missed 3 1/3 days this year. At this point, I should easily be able to make it until Summer Break, right? Well, to make a long story short, I didn't end up taking a day, but by the time I got to Friday my voice was pretty much gone. Not to mention, mornings are torture for me when I don't have my allergies under control. I ended up spending the weekend getting my voice back, sleeping, and creating. Before I forget, if you are a blogger that follows me feel free to link up on my Fab Friends page. That way it will be easier for me to find you and for my other blogging friends to find you. Also, don't forget, if you like these shirts click on the picture and go order one. It will look great with jeans or shorts this summer and it will help someone give a little baby a home where they will be loved. Alright, now I have two freebies. One, I had Friday, but I forgot to post it. I'm sorry guys because I know you can't use it now for Mother's Day, but it would still be cute for Father's Day or for an end of the year teacher gift. Below are pictures of the pages. If you want this set, click on it and grab it. My other freebie is a set of two conjunction worksheets. This is one skill that I haven't had a lot of time to cover, so I threw these together tonight. I figured if I haven't had a chance to use them, then you may also need them. If you like them, click on the pictures and it will take you to the sheets. Stay tuned tomorrow! My 2nd Grade Summer Fun packet is finished. I have a few friends proofreading it and then I will post pictures and post it to TPT.
Today's post---Hodgepodge. A little of this...and a bit of that. Today we just took it easy. I had 6 kiddos absent (There must be so...
Teaching prose, drama, and poetry is quick and easy. Your third and fourth grade students just need a little vocabulary and practice.
Vocabulary instruction is so critical in today’s classroom! A vast vocabulary will help students to become better readers and writers. Vocabulary is also essential to their performance on standardized tests. Helping kids to develop their vocabulary is time that is well spent in a busy classroom. I have developed a routine to teach new vocabulary
This little pack will help teach your kiddos about comparative endings -er and -est. It includes a poster, center, game, and a few practice pages! Enjoy! You might also like: Miss Lovely and Mr. Wonderful (-ly and -ful) Oat the Goat (oa and ow) Aww It's Paws & Auto (au and aw)
4 Games to Help Kids Think Critically about Vocabulary Guest Post by Rachael Parlett from Classroom Game Nook Blog.
It amazes me how much class size affects my teaching and my students. I started the year with 31 students. I just lost my second one at the beginning of this week, so I'm down to 29. I've had 2 kids out all week on long vacations and 2 more out sick. So I've had a class of 25 ALL week!! It's been a big difference. Even though the ones gone are little angels and I still have all the hard ones, it really makes a BIG difference!! Our district and researchers keep telling us that class size doesn't make a difference but I have to beg to differ with them. It makes a HUGE difference in first grade. With a smaller class I can spread myself out more- work with more kids, more often, for longer periods of time. We can get more done- 25 kids take less time to finish an assignment than 31. With all the activities we do in first grade through out the day it can really add up. With less kids, fighting for my attention, I can give more attention to those that really need it. During class discussions, there is more participation by more kids. The shyer kids start to open up. It just feels more like a close knit community rather than a big city. I can hardly imagine what it would be like to teach less than 20. What a dream!! Back to reality. Our school has been doing training in SIOP this year. It stands for Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol. You can find out more HERE. It actually is training in teaching English Language Learner but our school does not have a very high percentage of ELLs. We actually have only 3 out of 180 in our grade level. But the SIOP model is really best practices and a great review in how to teach better. With the new common core our principal thought is would be a great help. We've had to do lesson studies and just finished one yesterday. Our team did ours on Synonyms. It's great to collaborate and work together as a team developing and analyzing a lesson. Here's a practice page we used and a cute song we found. I don't know who to give credit for the song but our kiddos really liked it. Click HERE if you'd like to grab a copy. Hey, believe it or not but it's FRIDAY tomorrow- again! Gotta love FRIDAY! I hope you all have a GREAT one.
Free parts of speech posters to display in your classroom. Download your free copy.
Howdy! Jen Bradshaw here from TeacherKarma.com. Synonyms are SWEET! While we are diligently focusing on comprehension instruction, sometimes we need to take a step back... and decide how we can help our kiddos move forward with their reading comprehension progress. Vocabulary! Vocabulary! Vocabulary! Our students need to be able to have a "better than good" grasp on vocabulary before they can deeply comprehend the text they are reading. Good vocabulary knowledge = good comprehension!! I have a few FREE vocabulary resources for you today. To get your FREE resources and read more about vocabulary strategies, please click here.
Anchor chart for common pronouns. Also black and white printables for students to do along with you.Added an assessment page to use with the chart.***updated***new graphics and fill in the blank chart with word bank...
This post includes the following reading points. Hey-ho! I just love all things literacy and specifically working with words. I want to delve deeper into phonological development, because.. well.. I just love it! I’m a bit of a nerd that way! Are you too? You know that phonological and phonemic awareness skills are important and also […]
Use these free riddle task cards to help young readers build inferencing skills.
Following written and even oral directions can be a difficult task for many students. Dr. Warren now offers both her advice on fun games and a freebie sampling of printable activities. Click here: Dr. Warren's Blog and Freebie link
Hi there! It's Hannah from The Classroom Key talking about parts of speech. Adjectives? Adverbs? Nouns? I'm pretty sure when we start introducing multiple parts of speech they just start swimming around in kids' heads like fish in a tank. Here is a tool to help kids put the pieces together into a bigger picture. This is what the finished product might look like after your kids have filled it all out: The file includes four different versions with spaces for either 3, 4, 5, or 6 different parts of speech depending on how many you would like to study with your kids. I liked putting a blank web right at the front of my students' grammar workbooks. Then as we learned new parts of speech during the year we would fill out a few of the bubbles. It was nice to refer back to now and then. I also made a big version of the web on my wall: Grab some webs and give it a try in your classroom! Happy teaching!
Metaphor, simile, onomatopoeia, alliteration, hyperbole, personification, and more!
