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It occurred to me that you might not all be finished your school shopping so I am having a sale on Teacherspayteachers! What teacher, parent or SLP couldn't use more resources? Especially items on sale!?

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Here is an example from one of my productS: Fishing Friends.

September

Well September has began and so has school. My kids are small- I have a grade 1 and a veteran grade 3er! Ty is grade 3 and not a huge fan of school, Lainy my big grade one keener is wondering why they aren't reading yet! So funny how you can have 2 kids who are so different!

During the summer I made a kindergarten activity with center's for every month. Each month I have targeted areas that seem to be big areas of need in the speech world.
I am going to give you my activities- one by one, month by month! Please keep an eye out for them!

Become a regular follower! The first month targets concepts and position words.

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City, City What Do You See?

Sooo many kids I work with have to work on the vocabulary goal these days; so I started looking for resources. I have a hard time finding resources that work well for younger kids at the beginning of the goal. Normally when I start targeting the vocabulary goal, I start with an associations activity. I will have the children state which items go together, and then explain why they go together?

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Vocabulary-Associations-What-Doesnt-Belong-and-Categorization-578985

However when I am working with preschoolers or children who have significant language delays,  this can be a very difficult task for them. This got me thinking..... What do I need? I started making books based on themes: farm animals, things at school, ocean items, and things in the city. I wrote these books in an easy, repetitions pattern so that children could read them along with their teacher or SLP. They are written in the Brown Bear, Brown Bear format so that non-readers and beginning readers can read them again, and again.  These books are just a beginning point for you to say all of these items in the book belong to a category- the category name is.....  Then you can go on to tell the kids what are some similarities between the items and what are some differences,  what are the parts, where do the items come from, what is their function, etc. 

Here is a copy of my City, City what do you see which includes many services that are found in our communities.

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Reading to your children- why?

I found a really great article and it got me thinking about books& reading to kids.

I have heard many teachers talk about the backslide kids have during the summer especially with their literacy skills. In order to keep the reading and language skills going we should read to our kids and the promote a conversation to ensure comprehension.

A few great tips for parents during the summer are:

1. Read everyday. Read anything, it doesn't have to be books; read recipes, poems, signs, and even cereal boxes!

2. Take turns. Have your kids read to you and you to them. I know my kids love it when we read TOGETHER! I  read a page and then they read a page.

3. Ask questions! Many parents make the mistake of asking questions in a testing manner. Ask questions that  promote thinking and not yes/no answers. What do you think will happen next? Why did that happen? Why did you like the story?

4. Make it fun. Turn the book into an activity. Many books have colouring pages and other activities that go with them. When you find colouring pages or activities turn it into a language rich experience. you can sequence the story by asking what was the first thing that happened in the story, the. What happened, and what next, etc. A great website to look at is http://www.kizclub.com/stories.htm for book activities. I also sell book buddies for Brown Bear, Brown Bear, The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, etc. 

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The cool article was http://www.raisesmartkid.com/all-ages/1-articles/14-the-benefits-of-reading-to-your-child