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Monday, June 15, 2015

FREE!!! Jeopardy Resources and Ideas

Want an idea for setting up the printable version of my Monster Jeopardy game? Do this!!!

 

Print, laminate and cut out pieces.  Use transparent tape,  Velcro, or sticky tack to stick the point values on the Monster card questions.  Then stick the monster cards to a poster or board (as shown above).  And you are all set to play (even in situations when you don’t have technology available!). J

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Monday, May 4, 2015

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Teacher Appreciation: 3 Days of FREEBIES


Let's celebrate you!! Happy Teacher Appreciation week AND Better Speech and Hearing Month!!! For the next 3 days you will get 3 FREEBIES per day. These freebies will only be available for FREE for 24 hours so make sure you grab them now! 

Here are the links for today's 3 FREEBIES available for FREE (until tomorrow night)!





Sunday, April 26, 2015

NEW PRODUCT!!! $2.00 OFF for a LIMITED TIME





This AMAZING bundle is so versatile, you can’t live without it! There are 72 picture cards available in color and black/white.  Picture cards are also available with words printed underneath in ALL CAPS and all lowercase letters, which makes them useful for preschool as well as the early elementary years.  There are also 72 other word cards (verbs, prepositions and adjectives) included.  Word cards are color-coded but also available in black/white (and in upper/lowercase sets).  There are  15 fill-in-the-blank sentence strips and sentence starters as well as 4 additional blank sentence strips available!!! A NO-PRINT activity with multiple choice question prompts and individual/group data sheets are also included in this irresistible bundle!


So how many different ways can you use these materials? A LOT!!! Here are some examples of how I used them in therapy:

qFor students working with assistive technology (with dynamic displays), I have been using these sentences strip set to have students practice finding new vocabulary on their devices and sequencing the sentences.  Because the “word finder” on the program my students are using has a basic QWERTY keyboard, I use the word and picture cards that have ALL CAPS so my younger students can match the letters independently as they search for words.  This has been an amazing tool to help my students with assistive technology generalize their skills and become more independent when using their devices outside of therapy

qI have several students who have significant difficulty answering basic “what” and “where” questions.  So I have been providing them with multiple choice picture responses (as you have seen in some of my other products.  For students who are working on answering questions and using sentences – use the picture cards to create a multiple-choice picture response set (4-6 pictures).  After you ask the question, have the student place the picture card (and other word cards as necessary) on the sentence strip and say the sentence about the target picture (e.g. What can you eat? –I eat the apple).

qFor students working on word relationships, this bundle offers a fantastic array of pictured items that can help student practice associations, categorization/exclusion and comparing/contrasting.  There are sentence starters to help student organize their response when explain how items go together and/or differ from one another.

qUse these cards for writing supports for students who struggle to form a sentence.  The word cards can be used in conjunction with the picture cards to have students practice sequencing parts of a sentence first then transfer it to writing.  The picture cards and NO-PRINT activity can also be used as writing prompts to help students who need visual to help them come up with sentences.



Saturday, April 25, 2015

Stop, Swap and Roll



Welcome to the Stop, Swap and Roll linky hosted by Jungle Learners!

Stop, Swap and Roll

I had the pleasure of being paired with Amy from 180 Days of Reading for this blog swap and I could be more excited! She was kind enough to send me her Spelling and Word Work Bundle, which offers decoding and spelling practice for a variety of decoding patterns.  


Ultimate Bundle

More than 30 skills are covered with this bundle! Each skill has 5 print and play engaging activities that kids LOVE!  And as a speech therapist I love that many of these activities can ALSO be used to address articulation and vocabulary skills!!!

I am so lucky to be able to share a room with the special education teacher, Nicole Silverwood, for kindergarten and 1st grade.  We used the activities from this pack in a variety of ways and definitely saw the value and versatility in the products Amy creates.  Nicole was able to use this activity to target IEP goals as well as intervention targets for her RtI groups.  Kids loved the activities and were very engaged throughout the session.  It gave Nicole the chance to see who could apply the decoding skills they have been taught without the pressure of reading words from a list.  She kept a data sheet separately to track words that each kid read or had difficulty with for IEP progress monitoring, which also allowed her to see how the decoding skills generalized to other contexts when practicing.


During speech therapy sessions, I was able to use many of the activities from this bundle to practice speech sounds my students are working on while reinforcing decoding.  For the students who have language goals, I used these games to work on vocabulary development and grammar/syntax.  For example, with the Roll, Read and Write activity, I had students roll the die and use the word in a sentence and or describe/define.  We also used the Roll, Read and Write board to come up with associated words and details about each word.  This is critical for developing word retrieval and language processing skills for my students. 


Because we are so excited about using this bundle in a variety of ways (as a spec ed teacher and speech therapist), Amy is giving away her Spelling and Word Work UNLIMITED Bundle!  Enter the Rafflecopter below for a chance to win!

Make sure you head on over to 180 Days of Reading to see my Mushroom Patch UNO Bundle in action



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Thanks to Melissa at Jungle Learners for making this product swap possible!  Head on over to her blog to check ALL the amazing product reviews and giveaways available NOW! 

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Sunday, December 14, 2014

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Saturday, December 6, 2014

Thursday, December 4, 2014

On the 5th day of FREEBIES, The TLC Shop gave to me...

...borders that were CURLY!!! :) 
Curly Borders

Here's some cute frames to spruce up your projects!  I've included an example template with 9 cards on the sheet and a layered graphic to show you how you could use these frames in different ways.


Enjoy!!!

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

On the 4th day of FREEBIES, The TLC Shop gave to me...

Elfie Categories!



I hope you are enjoying all these festive FREEBIES.  Remember - FOLLOW ME on TpT to continue to receive exclusive FREEBIES every month!

Sunday, November 30, 2014

12 Days of FREEBIES


Here is the link to the “12 Days of FREEBIES”!!! I hope you enjoy these holiday FREEBIES.  Save this link so you can access the other freebies and BONUS items I have in store for you!!! Don’t forget to FOLLOW ME on TpT to continue to receive exclusive FREEBIES every month!

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

The "Big Paper" Activity

I just finished reading an article from Topics in Language Disorders (Vol. 32 No. 4) entitled “Evidence of Two Theoretical Models of Writing in Young Children”.  There was a strategy used in this study where students gathered around a large piece of paper (2-3 feet wide and 6-10 feet long) and were given a variety of writing tools (markers, crayons, pencils, etc.).  Students chose their own writing topics (or given a main theme or story to write about).  The activity was child-directed rather than teacher-directed.  Students had the opportunity to communicate orally and in writing with each other during the writing activity.  Teachers monitored students as they worked and encouraged students to talk about their work if they wanted to know what was intended with the writing/drawing produced. 

The “Big Paper” idea seems like a more engaging and interactive way to work on writing.  With the option of writing tools and a large paper to work on, this unique strategy is an excellent way to reduce any anxiety or frustration my students feel about writing.  Research on the “Big Paper” activity suggested improved engagement, collaboration and higher quality of writing produced by the students who participated in the study.  


I am eager to try this activity out with some of my students with language delays who really struggle with writing this school year.  Do you have students who struggle with writing?  Try this method out and let me know how it works for you?  I’ll keep you posted on how my kids do!

Monday, August 4, 2014

Play and Learn: Recess Games

Want some ideas for teaching while your students are playing at recess?  We painted these ice cream scoops on our playground, which will help students K-5 target a wide variety of skills.  Check out some of these ideas! (By the way - if you can't paint your playground, some sidewalk chalk also works PERFECTLY!).


Ice Cream Scoops: Math Games




Number Identification
A great game for kindergarteners to learn and practice identifying numbers 1-20!  Toss a beanbag to the ice cream cone and identify the numeral you land on.  If you land in the middle of a scoop, name all 3 numerals.  

Comparing Numbers
Toss 2 beanbags to the ice cream scoops.  Find the numbers they land on (or are closest to) and decide which number is more and which is less. 

Simple Addition & Subtraction
Toss 2 beanbags to the ice cream scoops.  Find the numbers they land on (or are closest to) and add and/or subtract the 2 numbers.  OR toss a beanbag to an ice cream scoop and add up all 3 numbers.  You can keep a tally of your points using sidewalk chalk to practice adding numbers as the total increases (and to find out who has the most points at the end and WINS!).


Multiplication
Toss 2 beanbags to the ice cream scoops.  Find the numbers they land on (or are closest to) and multiply those numbers together.  You can keep a running tally of points to continue practicing addition (and to find out who WINS!).

Fact Families
This was how this playground game came to life! Each of the ice cream scoops has a fact family set in them.  Toss a beanbag to the ice cream cone.  If you land on a scoop, explain how the numbers are related (e.g. 10 x 2 = 20, 20/2 = 10, etc.).  Identify other numbers that could be factor of the top number too!  It gets better - what happens if you land on a cone or cherry?  Those numbers are different.  If you look carefully, you will notice that those numbers are PRIME numbers.  Talk about what that means with your students.  This activity is LOADED with math vocabulary and concepts that will help upper elementary students who are struggling with these math skills.

Do you have any other game ideas that you can play with these colorful cones? Comment below...