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Struggling to help your middle or high school students grasp abstract language concepts like inference, context clues, and Tier 2 vocabulary? This all-in-one speech therapy language bundle provides ready-to-use lessons that make language comprehension more concrete and manageable!Designed for middle and high school students, this resource breaks down complex language tasks into step-by-step activities. Whether you’re focusing on vocabulary development, inferencing skills, or teaching students ho

Do you have a following direction goal, but your students are way past 1, 2, 3, step directions? In middle and high school, students still have difficulty following directions, but it's harder to target. We can help them in a fun and functional way through crafts (specifically origami)! My middle schoolers love when I pull out crafts and have so much fun! Little do they know they're actually working on their following directions skills. (Don't you love sneaky but fun therapy?) Overviews of ho

Teaching vocabulary is hard. Do you tackle it word-by-word, by subject, teach them strategies? I believe in the adage: give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. How does that tie into vocabulary? Well, I think that we should be teaching our students strategies to figure out word meanings, so that they can do it on their own. A lot of my students don't know how to use context clues and have no idea how to figure out a word's meaning from

Imagine a speech session where students are engaged and learning concepts that will help them succeed. It's not easy to find materials and activities that will capture the hearts of my middle schoolers, but I've noticed that my students learn best when the material is interesting and easy to understand. The resources can also be used across different goals.Context clues #2 and Inferencing #2 can be used across grade levels and target a variety of skills: understanding and forming complex senten

Looking for a good place to start with inferencing with your students but not sure where to begin? This evidence-based resource (now including BOOM cards) will help you target critical thinking skills such as inferencing. It starts with an overview of inference and how to use inference. It come with a pre-test that tests your students' abilities to infer. You can start where they have trouble. This resource has over 34 pages of content and provides a pre-test and 31 practice questions. Level

Target synonyms and antonyms in an easy and fun way using activities like matching, word search, word scramble, mazes, and crossword puzzles! Teaching vocabulary can be difficult and sometimes boring for the students! These worksheets provide the perfect resource to use for individual help or homework. Every activity has an answer sheet included. This evidence-based resource will help you target vocabulary, specifically synonyms and antonyms. This resource has over 40 pages of content and incl

I don't know about you, but I've had so much trouble finding a good, middle school appropriate figurative language activity that's not covered with cutesy graphics and is straight to the point. It also feels so aimless to target metaphors and other figurative language out of context. This evidence-based resource will help you target those figurative language goals in an EASY and FUN way. This resource has over 32+ pages of content and goes over 15 metaphors in context and in detail. You can

Syntax and grammar are the bread and butter of language. Without a good grasp of it, students can have difficulty understanding complex directions or grade-level passages. As grade-level passages get more difficult, I've been finding the need to target higher-level complex sentences using subordinating conjunctions. Usually by middle school, my students are able to form sentences using compound sentences and have FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so) down pat. But when I ask them about the

Do your speech students struggle with math word problems? You may ask, why would we work on math in speech? The answer would be, we're not working on math, we're working on decoding and understanding the key vocabulary included in the math word problems. A lot of our students love math, but they HATE math word problems. The reason is because they don't understand what the question is asking them. After researching and encountering many students with this very issue, this resource was created.

This bundle includes two resources that target higher level inferencing questions. Inferencing (Leveled Introduction) includes inferencing from pictures, riddles, sentences, and paragraphs. It includes a pre-test so you know where your students have difficulty. Inferencing 2 focuses on inferencing at the sentence and paragraph levels and includes three non-fiction longer paragraphs for increased rigor. It covers subjects/topics that are age-appropriate.Save by buying both of these essential mid

This bundle includes three resources that target middle school tier two vocabulary. Context Clues -- The perfect introduction to context clues for middle or high school speech students. Includes five different types of context clues and plenty of practice questions.Tier Two Vocabulary in Context -- 20 tier two vocabulary words introduced through word study, paragraphs, and recall.Synonym and Antonym Vocabulary Activities -- Looking for some fun activities for your students with vocabulary goals

Looking for a fun, language-rich activity for your middle or high school students? Crack the case and uncover the truth in this interactive detective-style mystery game!Students will step into the role of investigators at the Maple City Historical Museum, where a priceless violin has vanished. To solve the mystery, they'll explore 11 exciting locations, read through interviews, emails, shipping tags, and photos, and piece together the clues to figure out who stole the violin, how they did it,

Are you looking for something interactive and effective for teaching students how to use context clues? This resource targets the five types of context clues and includes practice at the sentence and paragraph levels. A lot of my students don't know how to use context clues and have no idea how to figure out a word's meaning from a sentence/paragraph. When they come across a word they don't know, they just skip over it, which really affects comprehension (especially if they don't know over ha

A lot of students have difficulty as they get older and experience a vocabulary gap. They're understanding less and less of what they're reading due to this gap. Tier two vocabulary words are not frequently used in everyday conversation and are often referred to as academic vocabulary. What can we as SLPs do to help? We can't teach them every word they need to know, but what we can do is teach them important words that they'll encounter across subject areas. We're not just teaching them the

I don't know about you, but I've had so much trouble finding a good, middle school appropriate figurative language activity that's not covered with cutesy graphics and is straight to the point. It also feels so aimless to target figurative language out of context. This evidence-based resource will help you target those figurative language goals in an EASY and FUN way. This resource has over 55+ pages of content and goes over 12 idioms in context. You can type right into the boxes in the PDF

Are you trying to teach complex sentences like passive voice, relative clauses or following complex directions with lots of spatial relationships? I've found that a lot of my middle school students lack the foundational grammar skills to understand complex sentences and directions. I've created this resource in an attempt to teach them the fundamentals that they need to be successful in school! Included inside are 16+ pages that teach grammar, syntax, and spatial relationships and 25+ pages o

Looking for more difficult but easy to understand/teach material for inferencing?This packet skips straight to sentence level and paragraph level inference questions. All new sentences, paragraphs included! There are also three more difficult nonfiction paragraphs included at the end of the resource. This evidence-based resource will help you target critical thinking skills such as inferencing. It starts with an overview of inference and how to use inference. This resource has over 32 pages of

Looking for interesting passages for your older students that aren't too long?I've found that my middle school students enjoy learning about new, interesting topics, but their attention is lost when the passage is too long. So, I created this resource that includes five older student appropriate topics: How chocolate is made and producedVideo games History of the ParalympicsThe world's most important inventionThe Grand CanyonThis evidence-based resource will help you target critical thinking s

Tier two vocabulary words are not frequently used in everyday conversation and are often referred to as academic vocabulary. Students that have a lack of vocabulary have difficulty understanding academic/grade level passages. What can we as SLPs do to help? We can't teach them every word they need to know, but what we can do is teach them important words that they'll encounter across subject areas. We're not just teaching them the definition, but giving them tools to decipher meanings of word

Engage your students with a fun, sports-themed reading comprehension and vocabulary resource designed specifically for SLPs working with middle and high school students! Featuring a global soccer tournament theme to make reading practice motivating and relevant, while targeting critical language skills. What’s Included: 5 grade-appropriate articles (5–7th grade reading level) about global soccer, famous players, historic matches, and what it takes to win Each article includes Tier 2 vocabular