Speech Sentiments

**Recently updated and improved!** Are you using minimal pairs to target phonological processes and looking for fun ways to engage your students in speech therapy? This worksheet packet might be for you! Included are a total of 14 different activities which address auditory discrimination and production practice for gliding (/w/ vs /r/). They were designed to be adaptable with any reinforcer or used on their own. They are also suitable across age groups (~PreK-3rd grade). **Check out the growing

Use this positive reinforcement chart to encourage "brave" speaking with students who have selective mutism! You will receive a total of 5 different chart themes/styles: a gingerbread house, castle, haunted house, sandcastle, and regular house! Each style is available with a boy superhero character displayed and a girl superhero character displayed. Note to Therapist/Educators: This resource was designed for use with young students who have selective mutism. It serves to provide extrinsic, po

"R" can be a tricky sound to learn (and teach)! Here is a quick and easy-to-interpret rating scale for working on /r/ with students of all ages. Includes one simple data collection sheet that can be used by the student or speech therapist to track productions. Use the arrow and numbers (1-5) on the scale as reference points to indicate the strength and accuracy of each trial. Written descriptions of each /r/ quality on the scale are also provided. -----------------------------------------------

Looking to start an effective, engaging reward system with your speech therapy students that doesn't consistently cost you money, time, or effort? Consider using a marble jar system! There are many resources online that point to ways you can implement this with your speech therapy students. Included in this resource are two printable, full-color posters I have created to implement a marble jar in my own therapy room, with the intention of encouraging increased self-awareness and monitoring of g

Your students are sure to love this engaging ice-breaker activity! Each student receives a different game board (containing the same questions but "shuffled" around). On their turn, he/she rolls a die and chooses a question that matches the number rolled. After answering the question, all students get to color the space. It's a race to create a path that runs from start to finish! This game is great for assessing/probing a variety of speech and language skills (e.g. during back-to-school season

Engage your speech therapy students in the story of "Old Clothes for Dinner?!" by Nathalie Alonso. This silly, yet rich-for-learning book makes a great addition to a food-themed unit such as around Thanksgiving! (Recommended for grades 1-4) This 34-page packet aims to target a variety of speech and language skills to flexibly work with many students on your caseload - those with goals for pragmatic/social skills, articulation skills, language skills, and fluency skills. Many pages appear open-e

A simple companion to go along with The Color Monster story by Anna Llenas in speech therapy! This includes a variety of loosely structured activities that you can use to engage students as you read the story and after. I've included icons to represent core words, action verb directives, and emotion names to place throughout the book for your preschool/elementary learners of all ages and levels! Some suggested goal areas for this activity include: Following directions (action verbs, task-based

Engage young learners in speech therapy using this companion along with the story "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams! This story is perfect for reading any time in the fall or around Halloween. Included is a 24-page book that requires some easy assembly using a laminator, scissors, and some hook & loop fastener dots. It is geared toward students in preschool through early elementary ages who require increased support for learning vocabulary, following direc

This sweet, no-bake, recipe will make a great end-of-year or summer themed activity for your students! Designed as a hands-on speech and language therapy lesson, but appropriate for all settings. This PDF contains a step-by-step guide (2 pages, 6 steps in total) for how to create a s'mores snack mix in a bag, along with extra information relating to how I personally prepared the activity for my own students! Two copies of the guide are provided, one with the measurements I used, and one with a

This simple build-a-snowman reinforcement activity for winter can be paired with any goal(s) in speech therapy! Students practice their target, then roll 2 dice and get to cross off that many numbers in the grid on the bottom half of the page. Once they reach the end of a row, they get to complete the task that is designated. Students will trace, draw, and color their way to finish. The first person who makes it to the end of the entire board wins! No prep needed, simply grab a die, print, and g

Calling all of your ABC-lovers! This book allows students to read and collect all 26 letters of the alphabet and put them into a delicious bowl of alphabet soup. It's a great way to engage even your "less" interested story-readers! This book was designed with gestalt-language processors in mind. It features repetitive text and a storyline that travels through a variety of settings to be used with students on a variety of levels. Teach functional phrases (e.g. "Where are you? There you are! Ouch

Looking for an easy, informative, print-and-go home practice resource for students practicing the /th/ sound? I have loaded these 6 pages with tons of targets for the phoneme, syllable, word, phrase, sentence, and carryover levels! (They also work great as a grab-and-go resource for articulation session drill!) I created these after I started receiving an increased number of speech referrals in the school for students who struggle with producing the TH sound. Many times, if the child only prese

A fun way to target a variety of language skills with your elementary school students in speech therapy! This resource features at total of 12 themed print-and-go activity pages to use year-round. Use the provided pictures to answer the questions for each scenario. As students work through each scenario, they use the key code to unlock letters which solve the riddle provided at the bottom of each page! The following themed pages are provided in this resource: SummerBack-to-schoolFallHalloween

This fun, interactive story is perfect for your community/around the town theme in speech therapy! Visit 7 familiar community places as your student reads and identifies objects that match a given function/description. The repetitive text/ moveable picture pieces will keep young students engaged and encourage active participation! Target the following language skills and more! Object functionsCategoriesWH-questionsDescribingFollowing directions--------------------------------------------------

Use these posters to introduce and reinforce the rules of the speech therapy room during individual and/or small-group sessions! A total of 4 unique poster styles is available in this bundle. Each poster style comes with 5 rule variations to accommodate different needs across elementary school/clinical settings. Additionally included is one "Speech Room Rules of Conduct" page - perfect to set the stage for your later elementary and middle school students! There are 22 usable pages in total. --

This simple beach/summer-themed reinforcement activity can be paired with any goal(s) in speech therapy! Students practice their target, then roll 2 dice and get to cross off that many numbers in the grid on the bottom half of the page. Once they reach the end of a row, they get to complete the task that is designated. Students will trace, draw, and color their way to finish. The first person who makes it to the end of the entire board wins! No prep needed, simply grab a die, print, and go! Perf

This simple back-to-school-themed reinforcement activity can be paired with any goal(s) in speech therapy! Students practice their target, then roll 2 dice and get to cross off that many numbers in the grid on the bottom half of the page. Once they reach the end of a row, they get to complete the task that is designated. Students will trace, draw, and color their way to finish. The first person who makes it to the end of the entire board wins! No prep needed, simply grab a die, print, and go! Pe

Your students will love this simple caterpillar-building activity to practice their speech therapy language goals. Choose a picture scene and target sheet, grab your bingo daubers or some colored dot stickers, and then with some very quick cutting/stapling you're ready to go for your session! **Want to try this activity before you buy? Check out a free 1-page printable sample by clicking here! All target sheets are in a multiple-choice format (fields of 3-4 choices) and contain both pictures/w

In this no-prep, flexible reinforcer game, students are racing to bring all of the Thanksgiving foods to the table before the entire family arrives! This can be used for cooperative or competitive gameplay. It makes a great grab-and-go activity for your preschool and elementary-aged speech therapy caseload during the hectic holiday season. **Looking for some targets to use with your caseload? Check out the full version of this resource here!You may also like:Back to School Bus Rush Game for Art

Are you looking for an engaging and thorough way to work on prepositions and following directions in speech therapy with your students? Look no further! This makes a great back-to-school or year-round activity. This is book #8 in my Interactive Preposition Book series, featuring a cute turtle and his library antics! Each page focuses on a specific prepositional term. Students will practice a total of 10 common prepositional terms with this playful theme, including: On topBetweenLeftRightUnderAb