It’s that time again! Freebie Friday brings us to another fun language activity with my cute monkey clip are I got at www.graphico.com. Check it out!Palm Tree Match Up is a match up game between objects and their attributes. I also added some blank trees and bunches of bananas so you can make your own […]
I have been performing early childhood assessments for the last decade and particularly over the last 5 years have encountered more nonverbal children between the ages of 3-5 than I have in my previous 5 years of therapy. I wonder if there is a trend in the severity of disabilities we are able to diagnose […]
I saw this cute clip art from Lilly Bimble Digitals and knew I had to make some farm themed activity for my PK and K kiddos. So I made this interactive book about living on a farm. It targets several things: expressive vocabulary, discussion of a single category (farm animals), rhyming, making predictions to fill in the […]
I saw these cute spring colored pencils from Creative Clips clip art and immediately thought of a sequencing activity I could make for my kiddos. Many of my young language delayed children struggle with retelling stories so I begin by teaching them ways to “sequence” everyday activities into 3 steps (modeling a beginning, middle and […]
It’s Spring and I think it’s time for some cute spring speech and language freebies! How about some a semantics game? I made this Rainy Day synonym game for my language kids. You can match up the synonyms, or have the students come up with their own. There are also points cards in there (great […]
A few weeks ago a brilliant follower on my FB page (you know who you are) commented on a story about my son and she gave me a great idea! Why not make a transportation themed book that imitates a much loved children’s book that is repetitive and rhythmic in nature? At that moment, Blue Car, […]
Last week I talked about the steps I use to teach PK kiddos how to understand analogies by focusing on understanding relationships between objects. Today I’d like to just write the several ideas I have done with PK kiddos that have worked to teach them how to understand categories of objects! If you have other […]
Boarder: From the Pond @ http://frompond.blogspot.com When I first started working with preschoolers I thought it was bit crazy to think of teaching analogies to 4 year olds. But after thinking about it, I realized that analogies are just about understanding relationships between two objects. So here are my tried and true steps to teaching […]
As a Speech-Language Pathologist, I feel music, singing songs and finger plays are a very important part of communication as these activities improve auditory processing and comprehension skills while teaching language, prosody, turn taking and so much more! So I thought I’d share with you my Top 10 favorite songs and explain why I love […]
Looking for a winter themed word association game? Well here is one just for you. Have your children match up the pine cone with the pine tree for the two words that “go together”! You can work on answering ?s and problem solving by having them answer “why” those words go together! There may be two […]
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