Hickory Tree Speech Therapy

This "cheat sheet" provides 1. -ar, -er, and -ir verb endings for verbs in the present, preterite, imperfect, and future tenses 2. present tense estar, ir, and dar conjugations 3. irregular present "yo" verb conjugations 4. preterite conjugations for ser, ir, decir, dar, traer, hacer, and ver Excellent resource for students to use when writing or editing

Complex sentences can be very challenging to teach- and frustrating to learn! I have used this activity with upper elementary to middle school students to make complex sentences fun! Students love pretending to be a "bratty" child ("I will not do the dishes unless I can watch TV when I am done!") or sharing their dreams for the future ("I can't be a famous musician unless I practice music every day."). Four worksheets are included. This activity is built as an expressive activity, scaffolding

Complex sentences can be very challenging to teach- and frustrating to learn! I have used this activity with upper elementary to middle school students to make complex sentences fun! Two worksheets are included. This activity is built as an expressive activity, scaffolding students' ability to construct their own complex sentences using sentence frames. However, it also builds comprehension, as students discuss each other's sentences and perfect their own. Use it as a worksheet, or laminate for

In this worksheet, students name the category that a list of 4-5 items fit into. The categories range from simple and concrete (car, train, plane, boat, taxi = transportation) to more abstract (firetruck, apple, strawberries, rose, heart = things that are red). I created this worksheet for a group of my sixth grade students, so there are some categories of specific interest to them (rappers, hockey teams, movies). Not only did this activity give them practice for organization/categorizing ite

These three worksheets target sentence formulation using the word 'because.' This activity is built as an expressive activity, scaffolding students' ability to construct their own sentences using sentence frames. However, it also builds comprehension, as students discuss each other's sentences and perfect their own. Use it as a worksheet, or laminate for repeated use. Graphics: @Charlotte Braddock 2013 http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Charlottes-Clips-4150 Check out my other complex/co

I use these worksheets with elementary student working on using coordinating conjunctions. These four worksheets target the coordinating conjunction 'and' in both the subject and predicate. This activity is built as an expressive activity, scaffolding students' ability to construct their own compound sentences using sentence frames. However, it also builds comprehension, as students discuss each other's sentences and perfect their own. Use it as a worksheet, or laminate for repeated use. Graph

These three worksheets target compound sentence formulation using the coordinating conjunction 'so.' This activity is built as an expressive activity, scaffolding students' ability to construct their own sentences using sentence frames. However, it also builds comprehension, as students discuss each other's sentences and perfect their own. Use it as a worksheet, or laminate for repeated use. Graphics: @Charlotte Braddock 2013 http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Charlottes-Clips-4150 Check

I use these worksheets with elementary student working on using coordinating conjunctions. The coordinating conjunction "but" can be difficult to explain. This product has decreased my students' frustration as they learn to use and understand sentences with "but." This activity is built as an expressive activity, scaffolding students' ability to construct their own compound sentences using sentence frames. However, it also builds comprehension, as students discuss each other's sentences and pe

Complex sentences can be very challenging to teach- and frustrating to learn! I have used this activity with upper elementary to middle school students to make complex sentences fun! This product contains two organizers for using the conjunction "since." One for the temporal meaning (e.g. I have been playing soccer since second grade.") and one for the causal meaning (e.g. Since I ate too many snacks after school, I'm not hungry for dinner.") This activity is built as an expressive activity, sc

These three worksheets target the coordinating conjunction 'or.' This activity is built as an expressive activity, scaffolding students' ability to construct their own compound sentences using sentence frames. However, it also builds comprehension, as students discuss each other's sentences and perfect their own. Use it as a worksheet, or laminate for repeated use. Graphics: @Charlotte Braddock 2013 http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Charlottes-Clips-4150 Check out my other complex/compo

This worksheet raises students' awareness of the prefixes in-, im-, ir-, and il-. Students segment the prefix from the base word. After the writing task, my students discuss the meaning of each word. We discuss how the prefixes mean "not" or "the opposite of."

Students increase awareness of the prefix dis- by segmenting dis- from base words. Next, students explore the meaning of each word by writing it in a sentence.

Picture board game with a variety of pictures of items that go together in different ways (category, function, location, attribute, etc.). Use chips or laminate and use dry erase markers to choose two (or more!) items and explain how they go together. These pictures were chosen so that there are many combinations! This can also be used to target following directions.