Use this assessment to check your students' phonemic awareness skills.
Includes initial sounds, rhyming, syllables, phoneme segmenting, and blending.
IT is a freebie from Sarah Paul on TPT. I have used this phonemic awareness assessment as a pre and post-test to check my kid's skills! You can use it to see which areas each student is having difficulty with and focus on that area.
I love it, it is a quick test that has pictures, but I used it without. I have used it to keep data and show the school how the student's skills have increased. Click on the picture to take you to Sarah Pauls's product on TPT.
I know it is a bit early but I am getting ready for my Holiday themed ideas for speech therapy!
I went to the dollar store and bouge some really inexpensive items and I plan on using these gorgeous little bins in speech therapy.
These are my /k/ bins loaded with cupcakes and candy! To make it a little more fun we can hide them around the room and have the kids practice their prepositions at the same time!
If you want some other ideas you can use this pack of my and add your own dollar store fillers!
You can use the book (in this pack) or you can use a youtube video. Read this book a few times to encourage comprehension.
This pack includes:
•Fine motor skill activities- including playdoh mats, or drawing, colouring and pre-printing practice.
•Rhyming worksheets
•Beginning sound mats- can also be used for segmenting sounds
•Beginning Sound House Center- do the 2 pictures start with the same sound?
•Coloring pages- and printing practice for upper case letters (beginning sounds of each character from the story).
•Sensory bin pieces
•Prepositions interactive book- also targets “where” questions and a wordless book that you can pair with a youtube video or use as comprehension pieces or story props!
Here are Apple theme activities that are good for preschool, kindergarten and grade 1.
Some activities target speech, language and fine motor skills.
The OT centers are meant to target fine motor skills that include printing practice, Q-tips, playdoh, blocks and erasers. These centers target hand strength, manipulation, and other fine motor skills needed for young children's needs.
You can use each of them any way you like them but here are some suggestions:
•Playdoh- the child can use the black and white version to color, or make a face (targeting emotions) in the apple. With the color version, you can use play-doh to practice the outline of the apple or mini erasers.
•Q-tip- using paint, the children can outline the apples. Make sure to cut the Q-tip in half to encourage proper pencil grasp.
•Alphabet practice- can use with dry erase markers, or printing practice in a sensory bin (rice/sand, etc.).
•Number practice- you can have the students practice writing the numbers or put blocks/small erasers that represent the number shown.
These centers are meant to target speech and language skills -like vocabulary, category naming, concepts, phoneme identification, and phoneme counting. Most of these are all skills children need to master before they start to read.
You can use each of them any way you like them but here are some suggestions:
•Apple Basket Categories- depending on the age and skill level you can use as many or as few categories as you like. For young children, you can start with 2 very different categories: for example animals and food. As the children progress, you can make the activity more difficult: animals with fur and animals with feathers. Some other ideas are farm animals/forest animals, ocean animals/ land animals, vehicles that go on land /ocean, etc. Many of the pictures may be applicable to several groups. Again, use your judgement to include the pictures that will work best for your group.
•One sheet Language center- if you are in a pinch try the no-prep sheet, you can use page 29 for your group and go through the sheet individually, or as a group.
•Category name- if your children are writing they can pick a card from the pile (cut and laminate page 36 and place all pictures in a pile) as they pull a card they can label the category name and write it down. If your children are younger they can just verbally label the category name. Many of the pictures can be called different names (animals/farm animals/pets). Snowman (things outside, things you find in winter, cold things, etc., again, use your judgment as to whether the answer is correct or not. To extend the activity you can have the student name more items from that category.
•Concepts- have the children circle the correct concept. To extend, you can use manipulatives to show the concepts cards around the classroom or use manipulatives with a small group.
•Identify the digraph- have the children pick one of the cards (again cut, laminate and place in a pile) then have the children say the word and place it on the correct apple according to the sound they heard. You can use 1 or 2 sounds or all 3 depending on age and skill.
Are you struggling with keeping your child busy at home? This pack has black and white with no prep, along with colour activities that you can laminate.
There are hands-on activities for preschoolers that target:
find items with certain qualities
label items and their category
nursery rhyme
tracing letters
identify numbers and letters
colouring and cutting (for fine motor practice)
printing practice- colour words, letters and numbers
sorting category items
Enjoy this 13-page package and please remember to leave me kind feedback!
This fun transportation-themed activity pack includes 27 pages of activities that can be used in therapy, small group work, centers or in the classroom.
This pack will help target vocabulary, categorization, describing, pronouns, and
possessive.
Activities include:
: An interactive book that describes a vehicle and the child must choose an answer
: Pronoun activity which can also be used to target possessive's
: An activity that teaches ordinal concepts: first, next, last and before and after
: What goes together- choose two items that are related to each type of vehicle.
Here is a cute little center that you can use in class or at home to keep your child's skill level up or as a boost for school.
Here are 3 centers- 6 pages each. This is a quick, low prep product! I have included ideas on how to use the centers but if you have another idea, great! Change it up J
1. For the first center, you need magnetic or foam letters to build the CVC words. Alternatively, you can use it to identify the beginning, middle and ending sounds.
2. The second center is for writing the word and colouring the pictures.
3. The last center- you can cut apart the pictures and have the student match them, or you can fold the word and have them unfold it once they’ve read it. You can have them do this one with a partner.
Everything you need to support your students that are in grade 5+ in the classroom. The skills they will practice here will help with their writing, describing and comprehension.
This observing & describing product is an excellent way for students grade 4 and up to practice essential skills in reading, observing, comprehending and making inferences. Observing, describing and making inferences are crucial skills for all readers. This product teaches this skill in 5 steps: choose words that describe the picture, generate your own describing words, creating descriptive words that are relevant to the picture to make the sentence more descriptive, then describe who, what, where, when and eventually why based on pictures, and then making inferences about pictures.
Step 1- choose from a series of words to best describe the picture.
Step 2- generate their own describing words based on the picture.
Step 3- add adjectives and other describing words to make the sentence (already provided) more exciting and descriptive.
Step 4- describe the pictures using what, where and when, then eventually why. Then they can use their words to create a descriptive sentence that describes the image.
Step 5- making inferences about pictures. Explaining what happened or will happen based on information from the picture.
**Visualizing and Verbalizing
Step-by-step directions to mastering visualizing and verbalizing.
Includes the 12 structure cue cards, and individual practice on each of the cues using real pictures.
I love this phonemic awareness assessment freebie! IT is from Sarah Paul and I use it all the time for my students as a pre and post-test. It is great for data too!
Playing Restaurant or Cafe is a great way to play during COVID. While we are stuck at home and indoors, you and your children can make a Cafe or Restaurant.
You can have your child make a menu.
Have your child make food with play food or empty store-bought items.
Your child can take turns being the waitress, customer, chef.
I found this pizza pack of toys and got thinking... Now I have a reverse caseload and all of my kids love playing with toys- who doesn't?? I went a made a pizza pack to pair it with these toys. I bought them at Walmart. It was a super huge hit!!
Pizza Speech Parlour Pack
There are so many goals you can target with this pack. It can work with a younger caseload and an older Great for preschool up to grade 3.
The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program is an internationally-recognized program that gives parents the skills they
need to build strong family relationships, manage misbehavior and prevent problems happening in the first place.
