mindful speech

Use these category cards to elicit concrete vocabulary to help organize your students’ semantic networks. Great for students with word-retrieval difficulties. You can: -Time your student(s)—give them one minute to name as many items in the category as they can think of! -Quantify how many items they need to think of for each category.

In working with my middle school students, I find that I am frequently returning to the same concepts: parts of speech, using conjunctions to form complex and compound sentences, and critical thinking skills. So, I designed these reference cards to use with my students. Now, we have a constant reminder (inside and outside of the therapy room) of the kinds of things we're trying to accomplish in speech & language! The idea is that you can jump between different linguistic levels as necessary: l

Being able to reason with verbal information is an integral part of how we communicate, problem solve, make decisions, and achieve success in relationships with others. Improve your students’ ability to reason flexibly and to expand her ability to identify, analyze, and modify information. Having a large repertoire of verbal reasoning abilities will help your students determine the effectiveness of her own responses plus analyze what is being said or presented to her. Have students list at le

You can use this matching game to help familiarize students with these targeted subordinating conjunctions! After each match that’s made, you can ask students to generate a sentence using the conjunction they identified as a match. Super-motivating competition element! Inspired by the popular game “Spot It,” Seek & Speak is a card game consisting of 13 cards, each containing 4 illustrations. There are a total of 13 illustrations in all. One—and only one—matching illustration exists between an

I've found that my students love to roll dice, so I created this activity for my middle school students who are working on conversation skills. I will tell students they have to elaborate on the question--i.e., NO yes/no responses accepted--these questions are good for going beyond yes/no.