Let's Grow Language
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Willard, Utah, United States
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I am a speech language pathologist in my clinical fellowship year. I work in the public school setting supporting children of all ages, disabilities, and skill levels. My strength in language acquisition and sentence generation provides me with insights others may not see.
Prior to being an SLP, I previously taught secondary education with endorsements in English Language Arts, German as a Foreign Language, and English as a Second Language. I taught literature, writing, grammar, and cultural lessons for nearly 10 years before discovering my "home" in speech language pathology.
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Foldable Tent: craft activity
This is a simple print-and-go craft activity is easy to use with a camping themed unit or camping themed narrative. Combine this craft with camping verb cards from my TPT store for free, or buy a Pack to Go Camping item sort for just $2. These items together could prepare a child for a great camping adventure, or they can expand a narrative to help a child generate language.
Not Specific
Literature, Not Subject Specific
Pack for camping: activity sort
This activity was designed as an extension for the book, "The Camping Trip," by Jennifer K. Mann, but it could be used for other units instead. This activity requires students to decide what items they should pack for a camping trip, and what items they need to leave at home. This file includes an instruction page, a duffle icon to place items, and a house icon to place other items.
K - 5th
Literature
CCSS
CCRA.R.2
Camping Verb cards
This resource contains 24 photographs of activities that people do while they are out camping. These cards were designed to work as an extension- or frontloading activity in conjunction with "The Camping Trip" by Jennifer K. Mann, but could be used with any other camping or outdoor themed unit. Combine this free resource with the foldable tent craft from my store to expand language even further. Children with language disorders need more repeated, specific practice with language, especially
PreK - 5th
Reading, Speaking & Listening, Vocabulary
CCSS
SL.2.1
"The Camping Trip" narrative intervention activity: irregular past tense
This resource is a narrative intervention extension activity to follow "The Camping Trip," by Jennifer K. Mann. These cards, designed to be printed double sided, allow children to consider the irregular past tense word prior to seeing the answer, thereby providing think time to allow students to generate their own response--an essential aspect of language practice. Pictures provide clues about how this word was used in the story and facilitate retell. To support retell, download this free ret
PreK - 5th
Grammar, Reading
CCSS
CCRA.SL.6
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden: Narrative Retell Map
This is an extension activity for "Millie Fleur's Poison Garden" by Christy Mandin. This New York Times Bestseller provides a variety of language targets for children in speech therapy, language arts, and fun homeschool lessons. This map offers a visual map of the story elements and a visual reminder of sequencing words to support complex sentence generation. **At the end of this narrative unit, we make adorable carnivorous plants by bending pipe cleaners. Watch this Youtube video for a t
1st - 6th
Literature, Reading, Social Emotional Learning
Millie Fleur's Poison Garden: Emotional Inferences and Complex sentences
This is a narrative extension activity that builds off of "Millie Fleur's Poison Garden" by Christy Mandin. This is a great springtime narrative that generates conversations about inclusivity, growth mindset, and perseverance. See other resources in my store to find other extensions for the same book. As with most narrative extensions, this is best used after reading the text at least one time. This particular extension activity requires children to make inferences about emotional states and i
2nd - 7th
Literature, Reading, Social Emotional Learning
CCSS, TEKS
RL.2.3
, RL.3.3
, RL.4.1
+8
Also included in: Millie Fleur's Poison Garden Narrative Unit
"Red Sled" Narrative Unit and Extension Activities
This is a language and narrative intervention unit that extends the book "Red Sled" by Lita Judge. This unit includes the follow language targets and activities: Present Progressive verb practice cardsRegular past tense verb practice cardsIrregular past tense verb practice cardsStory Sequencing with picturesSeasons visualCompare and Contrast PracticeOnce you print these pages-- I always laminate them, too-- it becomes a great winter-time a grab-and-go literary unit. The detailed instructions f
PreK - 3rd
Grammar, Literature, Reading
CCSS, TEKS
CCRA.L.1
, CCRA.L.3
, LA.K.1.B
+4
Pig the Monster: Irregular verbs extension activity
This activity is a narrative intervention extension activity for “Pig the Monster,” from the Pig the Pug series by Aaron Blabey. This activity targets 12 irregular past tense verbs. The cards can be used to supplement the narrative retell or simply used for sentence generation in the context of Pig's adventures. As with all narrative intervention extension activities, this is best used after reading the story at least once. That provides the content for the sentences. If the child can't remem
PreK - 6th
Grammar, Literature, Reading
CCSS
CCRA.W.3
, CCRA.W.4
, CCRA.SL.1
+2
Also included in: Pig The Monster Extension Activities
Thanks for Nothing! Extension for a Complex Sentence
This is an extension activity to use with Bruce the Bear, Little Bruce Book "Thanks for Nothing!" After reading the narrative with the child, this activity stretches language to formulate a complex sentence using a subordinating conjunction and adverbial phrase. The use of the pictures and sentence ideas reduces cognitive load off the child and brings abstract concepts into a more concrete realm, thereby helping a child who uses only simple sentences to stretch their language in a comfortable
PreK - 5th
Grammar, Literature, Reading
CCSS, TEKS
CCRA.L.1
, CCRA.L.3
, CCRA.L.4
+4
Also included in: Thanks for Nothing! Extension Bundle
Thanks for Nothing! Verb tenses
This is an extension activity for "Thanks for Nothing!" A little Bruce the Bear book. It can be used in other instances, but I'm a big fan of narrative intervention activities, so I find this a great time to talk about what the mice do in the book. Students match different variations of the verbs "eat," "carve" [pumpkins], and "play," to custom pictures of each sentence. These verbs match activities that the mice do in the book, to allow for a reading connection and verbal expression. Why do
PreK - 5th
Grammar, Literature, Reading
CCSS
CCRA.L.1
, CCRA.L.3
Also included in: Thanks for Nothing! Extension Bundle
Pig the Monster dress up activity
This is a Speech therapy extension activity to "Pig the Monster" by Aaron Blabey. This is a printable pug and 8 fitted Halloween costumes. These same pages are also included in black and white to use as coloring pages, if someone wants a more personalized Pig and outfit. This resource also offers suggested language targets that could be used during play. This can help a parent or resource teacher think more like a speech therapist and elicit more language from a child with a single activity.
Not Specific
Grammar, Literature, Reading
CCSS, TEKS, VA SOL
RL.1.3
, RL.2.3
, RL.3.3
+2
Also included in: Pig The Monster Extension Activities
Graphic Organizer Menu
This resource is designed to support metacognition and reasoning skills. It works well as a class set, or 1 per pair of students. Printed two-sided on card stock and laminated. The purpose is to help students see and decide how to organize different types of texts. Students will "order" the desired graphic organizer from the teacher for each text. When you download this resource, be sure to follow my TPT store to get updates on other awesome resources! Studies done and evidence based practic
3rd - 12th
English Language Arts, Reading Strategies
CCSS
RI.7.8
, CCRA.R.1
, CCRA.R.2
+7
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About the store
Experience
I am a speech language pathologist in my clinical fellowship year. I work in the public school setting supporting children of all ages, disabilities, and skill levels. My strength in language acquisition and sentence generation provides me with insights others may not see.
Prior to being an SLP, I previously taught secondary education with endorsements in English Language Arts, German as a Foreign Language, and English as a Second Language. I taught literature, writing, grammar, and cultural lessons for nearly 10 years before discovering my "home" in speech language pathology.
Teaching style
As a speech pathologist, I incorporate my experiences as a teacher to create worthwhile extensions to narratives. I use evidence based practices in my speech therapy sessions and specifically employ narrative intervention methods to target academic and social language needs. Narrative unit extensions also allow for natural lessons and practice opportunities specific to different contexts.
As a teacher, I stood by the idea that project based learning is the best method. We incorporate all of the different content areas in each unit and make connections.
I like a classroom with lots of little routines. Tongue Twister Tuesday, Math Facts Monday, weekly book talks, Fluency practice on Fridays, and even Reading for Fun every Wednesday.
My own education history
*Bachelor's of Arts in German as a Foreign Language Teaching from Weber State University*
*Bachelor's of Arts in Language Arts Teaching from Weber State University*
*Endorsement for English as a Second Language in Utah fulfilled by Southern Utah University*
*Bachelor's of Science in Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education from Utah State University*
*Master's of Arts in Speech Language Pathology at Utah State University*
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