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Letter naming and letter sound fluency are critical to reading success, however assessments for reading fluency are not only testing a child’s letter/sound knowledge, but they are also testing a young child’s understanding and familiarity with the task. Traditional letter naming tasks are less than engaging for the little ones and it’s hard to teach the rapid naming task with items they have not yet mastered. I honestly believe that rapid naming is a skill in itself. This Category Dice game i

Which one doesn’t belong activities are a great way to promote oral language and critical thinking skills that fall in Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy levels of Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing and Evaluating. By asking these questions, children practice vocabulary, word retrieval, describing, processing, organization, analysis of relationships between items and differentiating skills. This activity uses higher level critical thinking skills which requires word knowledge and describing

This is a bundle pack of Transitions Talk Volumes 1-5. Transition Talk is a flip card resource for teachers to capitalize on lost instructional time while children wait in line for lunch, the bathroom or the many other transitions that occur throughout the day. These activities address language and critical thinking skills which impacts literacy and academic success. Two Categories , Would You Rather?, What Am I? and Which one doesn’t belong? activities are a great way to promote language and c

This Farm Animal Unit is a printable that works on vocabulary and language skills. This activity is designed to be hands-on as the children work on vocabulary, sorting, size concepts, positional concepts, describing, comparing, contrasting and direction following. This activity was created to be printed, laminated and used with magnets on a cookie sheet or white board. My own kids even have fun with it on the fridge. This activity is great with individual students working on these concepts

I first learned the Little Mouse flannel board activity years ago when I was doing an internship in graduate school. Through the years, I have made many different variations, and I don’t think I can say I’ve ever found a child that hasn’t enjoyed this game. This activity is 31 color pages in PDF format. It includes instructions, mice, and house printables to use on a cookie sheet, white board or flannel board. My own kids love to play this on the fridge, and I have a set on the dryer that t

The Three Little Pigs Positional Word Game is a great way to work on expressive and receptive positional words while having fun.  This activity was designed to accompany any version of the story The Three Little Pigs. This activity in 15 pages in pdf format and focuses on positional words on, under, beside, behind, in front.  The activity is intended to be printed in color and laminated for repeated use. The activity is copyright protected by Speech Cafe www.speechcafe.org.

This is a one page re-produceable log to use during therapy sessions to record student progress and session time. Print front to back and record daily data during student sessions. Data transfers nicely to 3rd party billing.

Knuffle Bunny Positional Word Game is a great way to work on expressive and receptive positional words while having fun. This activity was designed to accompany the book Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems. This activity in 9 pages in pdf format and focuses on positional words in, on, under, beside, behind, in front. The activity is intended to be printed in color and laminated for repeated use. The activity and all images are copyright protected by Speech Cafe www.speechcafe.org

Transition Talk is a flip card resource for teachers to capitalize on lost instructional time while children wait in line for lunch, the bathroom or the many other transitions that occur throughout the day. These activities address language and critical thinking skills which impacts literacy and academic success. Which one doesn’t belong? activities are a great way to promote language and critical thinking skills that fall in Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy levels of Remembering, Understanding, Applyin

Goldilocks & the Three Bears Positional Word Game is a great way to work on expressive and receptive positional words while having fun.  This activity was designed to accompany any version of the book The Three Bears. This activity in 19 pages in pdf format and focuses on positional words on, under, beside, behind, in front.  The activity is intended to be printed in color and laminated for repeated use. The activity is copyright protected by Speech Cafe www.speechcafe.org.

Transition Talk is a flip card resource for teachers to capitalize on lost instructional time while children wait in line for lunch, the bathroom or the many other transitions that occur throughout the day. These activities address language and critical thinking skills which impacts literacy and academic success. What am I? questions are a great way to promote language and critical thinking skills that fall in Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy levels of Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing an

Little Star is a variation of the Little Mouse activity. Kids love these repetitive games. This activity is 30 color pages in PDF format. It includes instructions, stars, and car printables to use on a cookie sheet, white board or flannel board. My own kids love to play this on the fridge, and I have a set on the dryer that they play while I’m doing laundry. This set includes cars to work on colors, upper case letters, lower case letters and numbers. Additionally, all sets are great to wo

Transition Talk is a flip card resource for teachers to capitalize on lost instructional time while children wait in line for lunch, the bathroom or the many other transitions that occur throughout the day. These activities address language and critical thinking skills which impacts literacy and academic success. Volume 2- Would You Rather...? works on skills in Bloom's Revised Taxonomy levels of Applying, Analyzing and Evaluating. While asking these silly questions, you are able to work on voca

This resource includes two versions of volume meter visuals to teach and prompt children to use appropriate voice levels in varying environments.

Little Red Riding Hood Positional Word Game is a great way to work on expressive and receptive positional words while having fun.  This activity was designed to accompany any version of the story Little Red Riding Hood. This activity in 19 pages in pdf format and focuses on positional words on, under, beside, behind, in front.  The activity is intended to be printed in color and laminated for repeated use. The activity is copyright protected by Speech Cafe www.speechcafe.org.

Transition Talk is a flip card resource for teachers to capitalize on lost instructional time while children wait in line for lunch, the bathroom or the many other transitions that occur throughout the day. These activities address language and critical thinking skills which impacts literacy and academic success. Volume 3 is the second volume working on categories. Categorization works on skills in Bloom's Revised Taxonomy levels of Remembering , Understanding, Applying and Analyzing. Some of t

This Which One is Missing? activity helps children work on their vocabulary and working memory skills, in a fun game format.  The activity is 23 pages in PDF format with varying levels of difficulty. The product is intended to be printed in color and laminated for repeated use.  The activity is copyright protected by Speech Cafe.

Do you love playing bingo, but often choose not to play with little learners because their chips end up everywhere except on the square it is supposed to be on. Do you end up spending more time on "chip management" than teaching the intended skill. This Clip a Letter Bingo and the rest of the Clip Bingo series is the perfect solution to this problem. Using these specially designed bingo cards, clothes pins act as the chip, and will stay securely in place. No more bumping cards or chips with thos

iSpy games are a great way to work on visual discrimination and vocabulary skills. This activity includes 2 large picture cards, 16 small object cards, directions and vocabulary checklist, highlighting the functions and categories of common household objects. This file is in pdf format and is intended to be printed in color and laminated.

Transition Talk is a flip card resource for teachers to capitalize on lost instructional time while children wait in line for lunch, the bathroom or the many other transitions that occur throughout the day. These activities address language and critical thinking skills which impacts literacy and academic success. Volume 1 Categories works on skills in Bloom's Revised Taxonomy levels of Remembering , Understanding, Applying and Analyzing. Some of the many skills children are able to work on ar