About the store
Hello! Thank you for visiting my store! My name is Rose Kesting. I am an ASHA-certified, New Jersey-licensed speech-language pathologist. I have been practicing since 1994, in a variety of settings including public and private schools and clinics, with children ranging from pre-k to grade 12. Currently, I work full-time in a private school for students ages 8-18 with dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities. We are one of the only Orton-Gillingham accredited schools in the United States.
I have been blogging since 2011 about all things related to food and speech/language therapy at www.speechsnacks.com. I have combined my passion for my profession with my love of cooking and nutrition to create fun, engaging speech-language therapy materials.
Additionally, I created ©Language Chef, a comprehensive, language-rich resource that uses FULL-COLOR photo visuals and recipes that have been tested in my kitchen and therapy room. You can find the extensive collection of Language Chef resources here in my TpT store. Many of the recipes are inspired by the blog posts that I have written over the years at “Cooking Up Good Speech with a Side of Speech Snacks” www.speechsnacks.com
In March of 2024, I put my cooking-themed therapy ideas into practice and opened The Kidz Kitchen of NJ--Where Cooking and Communication Go Hand in Hand. My business offers IN-PERSON COOKING CLASSES for children ages8-16 and is a place to learn how to cook, create, communicate, and collaborate. You can find my kitchen classroom in Central New Jersey and at www.thekidzkitchen.com and IG and FB @thekidzkitchenofnj
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Cariboo Is For Older Kids Too | Vocabulary & Strategies
It's true! Cariboo is for older kids too!!! According to Beck et al. (Bringing Words to Life) “...students become interested and enthusiastic about words when instruction is rich and lively...” You can view my video tutorial for this product : HEREMany SLPs own this highly coveted and popular game used in speech/language therapy and now you will have one more great way to make use of it---with your middle and high school students. Use this as your go-to vocabulary activity! Each month teac
5th - 12th
Vocabulary
CCSS
CCRA.L.5
, CCRA.L.6
National Speech-Language-Hearing Month Activity Packet
May is National Speech-Language-Hearing Month (formerly Better Hearing and Speech Month/BHSM)! Celebrate by creating greater awareness in your therapy room with these fun language-based ideas that can be used across a variety of age/grade levels: 1—Read the National Speech-Language-Hearing Month poem (written by me!) with your students and use the follow-up page to identify rhyming words, and synonyms and to explain the idioms found within the poem. (pages 3-4) {this activity would be suitabl
PreK - 8th
Categorize It! Organize It! {a word retrieval game}
This game is great for addressing, CATEGORIZATION, WORD FINDING, and EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING skills. ORGANIZATION is a key component of EF and this game will challenge your student’s ability to organize in a practical way related to everyday items and locations in their environment. Purchase a few plastic utensil organizers from the discount store and you’ll be on your way to good organization! All players start off with TWO of EACH utensil. Collect the number of utensils according to the po
2nd - 8th
Vocabulary
Main Ideas and Supporting Details{A Feast of Turkey Topics for Thanksgiving}FREE
Looking for a fun and interesting way to address this challenging language goal? This product will help your students gain a better understanding of main ideas and supporting details. It includes: *a visual aid or analogy for explaining the topic, main idea, and supporting details. *12 tables of topics and main idea cards *12 images that represent supporting details. * blank tables and turkeys to create your own topics and/or main ideas * organize the topic, the main idea, and supporting
3rd - 8th
Writing
Also included in: Fall Language Bundle for Older Students
Restaurant Themed Social Skills & Auditory Processing Cafe {Middle School}
Welcome to SpeechSnacks Cafe!! I was inspired to create a restaurant-themed packet that would help students with social skills for proper table etiquette. The packet evolved into other areas of language and auditory processing as well---and is the perfect addition for your life skills groups! What you will find in this restaurant-themed language packet: •(pgs 3-5) 18 cards of social scenarios related to restaurant situations/table manners •(pgs 6-9) 24 cards of restaurant descriptions in whic
3rd - 8th
LANGUAGE CHEF| Fall| Language Skills| Cooking| Visual Recipes
Get ready for a FUN, FUNCTIONAL, MULTI-SENSORY, LANGUAGE-RICH learning experience! If you are looking for a change of pace from your current therapy and classroom materials, then you found the right place! © Language Chef is a comprehensive, language-rich resource that uses FULL-COLOR photo visuals and recipes that have been tested in the kitchen and classroom. Many of the recipes are inspired by the blog posts that I have written over the past 12 years (“Cooking Up Good Speech with a Side o
K - 9th
CCSS
RI.K.1
, RI.K.2
, RI.K.7
+9
Also included in: LANGUAGE CHEF BUNDLED RESOURCE| Language Skills| Cooking|Visual Recipes
Back to School Bundle:Student Organizer&Executive Functioning (Older Students)
This bundle contains BOTH the Student Organizational Planner and Executive Functioning Strategies Game. These products complement each other as they address goals related to time management, good organization, and higher-level language skills that ALL you older students can benefit from!! Get both of these items together and use them to start off the school year on the right foot! Start the year off with this great organizational tool meant for home use as a communication tool between studen
4th - 12th
Spring Language Bundle for Older Students
This bundle covers all your spring-themed language needs! Your older students deserve some fun and challenging new materials and so do you! Buy all four and save more! (If you have purchased any of these products individually, please do not purchase this bundle.) Here is what you will find in this bundle: Earn Some Green: Help your students identify and define figurative language concepts with this fun St. Patty’s themed packet. The packet includes “leprechaun loot” which students earn wh
5th - 12th
Supporting main ideas, details & written language with Main Idea Cookies|Winter
If your students like cookies, they will have fun learning to identify and write about topics, main ideas, and supporting details with a cookie and winter theme! This packet includes: page 3: a visual aid or analogy for explaining the topic, main idea, and supporting details. Pages 4-6 contain 12 cookie jar topics. Match them to the cookies (main ideas) on pages 7 & 8 OR give students just the topic card and ask them to come up with their OWN main idea. Page 9: 9 images that represent sup
5th - 9th
Writing
Also included in: Winter Language Bundle {for older students}
COOKING UP GOOD DESCRIPTIONS (food edition) | VISUAL SUPPORTS & SEMANTIC MAPPING
Use this VISUAL SUPPORT tool to assist your students with DESCRIPTIVE language tasks that require them to ELABORATE and EXPAND when describing FOODS! Although I LOVE to incorporate foods and cooking into my speech/language sessions, I know it isn’t always possible for everyone to use REAL foods in their therapy setting/classroom. Use the VISUAL SUPPORTS in this product anytime you want to incorporate a food/cooking theme WITH or WITHOUT REAL foods---for example: use with PHOTOS/DRA
K - 8th
Vocabulary
LANGUAGE CHEF BUNDLED RESOURCE| Language Skills| Cooking|Visual Recipes
This BUNDLE is a ZIP FILE consisting of ALL FOUR SEASONS of LANGUAGE CHEF resources!! **You will need to unzip this file to view the included pdfs** There are a total of 48 recipes contained in this bundle! 18 FALL recipes10 WINTER recipes10 SPRING recipes10 SUMMER recipes**(please note: the same pre-recipe and post-recipe activities are found in all four editions)** © Language Chef is a comprehensive, language-rich resource that uses FULL-COLOR photo visuals and recipes that have been teste
PreK - 9th
Fall Language Bundle for Older Students
Buy all four and save more! (If you have purchased any of these products individually, please do not purchase this bundle.) Here is what you will find in this bundle: VOCABULARY BUILDING FOR OLDER STUDENTS:*Six vocabulary strategy cards (to use as a reference for this product or any new vocabulary that you may address ) that provide specific ways to support tier-2 vocabulary development *Vocabulary knowledge chart. *Eight apple-themed reading passages containing key tier -2 words in bold and 2
5th - 10th
Informational Text, Vocabulary
Make a Cup of Snowman Soup--Oxymoron Match-Up! {Middle School}
What is an OXYMORON? A figure of speech that combines contradictory words (i.e. “jumbo shrimp”, “dull knife” ...and “snowman soup!!” Help your older students to understand and use oxymorons in their everyday verbal and written expression to add creativity and great visual imagery to their language! Game Contains: 36 oxymoron cards snow and sun matching oxymoron cards 36 fill in the blank sentence cards “Draw It” page Snowman soup poem 1 collectible “SpeechSnacks” recipe card How to p
5th - 10th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Winter Language Bundle {for older students}
Happy New Year 2026! New Year's Resolution Race
In honor of a brand new 365 days, here’s a game to start the year off right! –and a “SpeechSnacks” recipe card for good luck in the new year! Page 3– Game board: Players start at “Baby New Year” and end at “Father Time.” Pages 4-9: 27 New Year vocabulary with matching student-friendly definition cards. Page 10: graphic organizer with spaces for synonyms/antonyms, sentence examples, parts of speech, picture representations, and a vocabulary rating scale for use with New Year-themed vocabulary. Pa
2nd - 8th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Holiday Language Bundle {for Older Students}
A Cornucopia of Tier-2 Vocabulary {for Older Students}
This packet is designed to help teach students look beyond the memorization of dictionary definitions and further develop a deeper understanding of tier-2 vocabulary words . In addition, it addresses comprehension skills through “WH” questions related to the content of the passages that require thoughtful, inferential responses. Object of the game: Read the passages aloud to/with your students. Roll the dice and pick the numbered tier -2 word in one of the passages that corresponds. Be the f
5th - 10th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Fall Language Bundle for Older Students
Valentine Craftivity---"Speech is Like a Box of Chocolates!"{for older students}
*Please see the preview for a visual description of the box assembly
This activity was created with your middle school and high school students in mind!!
Speech is Like a Box of Chocolates....
This game contains a delicious variety of FIVE areas of language and listening skills AND a fun craftivity for making your own box for keeping all your “chocolates.”
***Use the chocolate box for storing and organize all your game cards when activity is completed!
The player who collects the most c
4th - 10th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Valentine Bundle: Language Activities for Older Students
Back To School "How Was Your Summer?" Icebreakers {FREE} with digital update
**This product is also available as a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD for use with Google Classroom!! Text boxes have been added for your ease and convenience. Start your new school year off with a conversation about the summer break. Use the 12 open-ended question cards to find out how your students spent their time off during the summer. Laminate and cut the cards and place in a pile. Have students take turns responding. (Incorporate a game board or your own game rules as an option.) Be sure to includ
4th - 12th
Writing
Scrambled Eggs{Categorizing, Figurative and Humorous Language}Older Students
I love the colorful patterns on these eggs! Perfect for creating a language activity that would be sure to keep your students engaged!
Included in this packet are:
1- EGG-spressions includes 12 egg-themed idioms and 12 matching definitions.
2- Cat-EGG-ories: 16 categories and 16 matching answers. Cut the cards into two halves on the solid lines. Scramble up the halves. Students must match the correct top half to the correct bottom half. These cards are versatile. Use them to have players g
3rd - 10th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Spring Language Bundle for Older Students
"Guess My Valentine!" and “Your Heart is in the Right Place" Barrier Game
(Please note: A duplicate copy of each page is provided in this download)
Barrier games are great for targeting many areas of speech and language!! Use this game for any of the following....
For language goals
• Expressive/receptive understanding of colors, shapes, sizes, quantity, spatial, etc.
• Expressive/receptive understanding of vocabulary
• Expressive/receptive skills for one, two, three or more step directions
• Asking/understanding “wh” questions
•Storytelling/narratives
For Articu
1st - 5th
Vocabulary
April Fool's Cause and Effect & Perspective Taking for Older Students
Happy April Fool’s Day! Your students will love these fun April Fool's practical joke scenarios! (Tell them they are meant for the classroom only!) Cut out and laminate the 12 cards (pages 3-5) and emotions cards page. (page 6) Read through each of the 12 April Fool’s practical joke scenario cards (the cause). Decide what will happen next (the effect). Determine how the individuals in the situations might feel as a result of the effect (perspective taking). Discuss what the practical joker m
5th - 10th
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About the store
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Hello! Thank you for visiting my store! My name is Rose Kesting. I am an ASHA-certified, New Jersey-licensed speech-language pathologist. I have been practicing since 1994, in a variety of settings including public and private schools and clinics, with children ranging from pre-k to grade 12. Currently, I work full-time in a private school for students ages 8-18 with dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities. We are one of the only Orton-Gillingham accredited schools in the United States.
I have been blogging since 2011 about all things related to food and speech/language therapy at www.speechsnacks.com. I have combined my passion for my profession with my love of cooking and nutrition to create fun, engaging speech-language therapy materials.
Additionally, I created ©Language Chef, a comprehensive, language-rich resource that uses FULL-COLOR photo visuals and recipes that have been tested in my kitchen and therapy room. You can find the extensive collection of Language Chef resources here in my TpT store. Many of the recipes are inspired by the blog posts that I have written over the years at “Cooking Up Good Speech with a Side of Speech Snacks” www.speechsnacks.com
In March of 2024, I put my cooking-themed therapy ideas into practice and opened The Kidz Kitchen of NJ--Where Cooking and Communication Go Hand in Hand. My business offers IN-PERSON COOKING CLASSES for children ages8-16 and is a place to learn how to cook, create, communicate, and collaborate. You can find my kitchen classroom in Central New Jersey and at www.thekidzkitchen.com and IG and FB @thekidzkitchenofnj
Awards & shining teacher moments
2025 Cooking School of the Year (Awarded by Children's Culinary Institute- http://www.childrensculinaryinstitute.com/teach-with-us/)
2015, 2016, 2019, 2021 "Kidmunicate" Best Websites and Blogs for Speech Pathology
Owner/Operator of The Kidz Kitchen--Where Cooking and Communication Go Hand in Hand (part-time business)
IN-PERSON COOKING CLASSES AND CAMPS for kids ages 7-13.
A place where kids cook, create, communicate, and collaborate
www.thekidzkitchen.com
My own education history
• B.A. in Speech Pathology/Audiology Loyola University (Maryland)
• M.A. in Speech Pathology from The College of New Jersey
• Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC)
• State of New Jersey license in speech pathology
• American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) member
• Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators (Member)
• New Jersey Speech and Hearing Association (member)
• Central Jersey Speech and Hearing Association (member & past treasurer)
Children's Culinary Institute Network Member
ServSafe NJ Food Handler certificate
Additional biographical information
Professional Development Presenter: Using Google Read & Write in the Classroom to Assist Students with Language-Based Learning Disabilities, Continuing Education Workshop for School Staff October 2022
Professional Development Co-presenter (auditory processing deficits in school-age children): Central Auditory Processing Disorders: An Overview and Strategies. Continuing education workshop for school staff March 2017
Professional Development Co-presenter: Executive Functioning: An Overview and Practical Applications for the Classroom. Continuing education workshop for school staff October 2014
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