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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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
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}
Back to School Problem Solving for Middle/High School Students+Digital Version
For updates on new products follow me on TpT!Sign up for my NEWSLETTERConnect with me on INSTAGRAM and FACEBOOKFollow my website/blog www.speechsnacks.com________________________________________________________**This product is also available as a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD for use with Google Classroom!! Text boxes have been added for your ease and convenience. Get ready for a new school year! Joe, Chris, Liz, Mary, and the rest of the gang are back with some problem-solving scenarios for middle and
6th - 12th
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}
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
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
"Earn Some Green" {Figurative Language Packet for Older Students}
Help your students identify and define figurative language concepts with this fun St. Patty’s themed packet. Packet includes “leprechaun loot” which students earn when they have responded to one of the figurative language cards (idioms, similes or metaphors.)
Pg 5 includes a Figurative language review sheet with a definition and example sentence for idioms, similes and metaphors for use before and/or during the game.
Pgs 6-7: 12 idiom coins
Pg 8: one blank page of coins to add your own idioms
p
3rd - 9th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Spring Language Bundle for Older Students
The One-Stop Ice Cream Shop! {Language & Auditory Processing}
See Speech Snacks in action as we make "language sundaes" on my FACEBOOK PAGE HEREIf you and your students like ice cream, then you’re going to LOVE this multi-level, multi-activity language packet!! I had so much fun creating this summer-themed activity which can be used during National Ice Cream Month in July---or any time you feel the inspiration to bring a little sweetness into your therapy sessions!! In this packet you will find the following target areas addressed: SPATIAL CONCEPTS AUDI
3rd - 6th
Vocabulary, Writing
Also included in: End of the School Year Speech/Language Bundle
Let's Go Shopping! Categorizing, Problem Solving & Sequencing for Older Students
This activity was inspired by a school-wide shopping trip to several stores including Target, sporting goods stores, toy stores and other “big-box” stores.
This product addresses life skills for shopping while targeting CATEGORIZATION, CLASSIFYING, SEQUENCING, SOCIAL SKILLS, INFERENCING AND PROBLEM SOLVING.
I highly recommend that you read the blog post that accompanies this item HERE for more information on how to use this product
This 24 page download includes:
This 24 page download
3rd - 10th
Vocabulary
School's Out for Summer!{FREE} Language Activity for middle/high school
Are you and your students excited about summer break?! Before you all head off for a few weeks of rest and relaxation, be sure to check out this summer-themed freebie! It addresses open-ended/“WH” questions geared toward middle and high school students with an “end-of-the-school year” theme! Activities include: •8 question cards/scenarios •8 speech and thought bubbles to fill in and/or discuss •12 “Summer Suggestions” cards and ablank “To Do” list to help keep your tweens and teens busy and bor
6th - 12th
Wintertime Wellness:Language,Problem Solving,Comprehension
Are you ready for cold and flu season? Help educate your students on situations, vocabulary, and figurative language related to the theme of wellness—and learn more about the cold versus the flu with the included reading passage! Object: After players make a match or responds to one of the target areas, they can take a card from the shuffled pile of cold and germ cards. The first one to earn/collect all 6 “kick your cold” cards is the winner. But beware of the “germs on the loose” cards! (each
5th - 12th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Winter Language Bundle {for older students}
"Oh My Green-ness!" (O.M.G.)--- Categorizing and Describing Packet
This fun language game contains a collection of “green things” that can be used in several different ways:
for RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE: Give your student THREE clues or THREE adjectives describing an object and ask them to guess the object. (played similar to “I Spy”) Make an additional copy for each student in the group.
for EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE: Have students form teams (depending on how many are in your group) and require them to give THREE clues or THREE adjectives describing an object. After ma
K - 5th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Spring Language Bundle {Elementary level}
Phonological Football!
The perfect game to use during football season while teaching important phonological awareness skills!
Download includes 21 pages: 2 pages of each color-coded helmet category including: identifying how many syllables in a word, what sound begins/ends a word, rhyming, syllable segmentation. Blank cards for each category are also included to add your own words to cards.
Play TWO ways!!
Game 1 is played similarly to Candy Land---Cut and laminate cards for durability. Shuffle cards well and place
PreK - 2nd
Phonics & Phonological Awareness
Words from My Heart: An Exercise in Kindness & Using Good Descriptions {FREE}
Thank you for downloading this free activity! Please remember to leave feedback! You can follow my store by clicking on the GREEN STAR next to my logo! February is the perfect month to remind ourselves of the importance of speaking kindly and giving positive feedback to those around us. As teachers/educators, we are role models that need to set the example for our students through our words and actions. Use this activity to share a positive message with your student about the qualities that ma
1st - 12th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Valentine Bundle: Language Activities for Older Students
Student Organizational Home Planner {Digital Version Included}
**This product is also available as a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD for use with Google Classroom!! Text boxes have been added for your ease and convenience. PLEASE NOTE: You can purchase the complete bundle which includes an accompanying executive function game HEREStart the year off with this great organizational planner meant for home use as a communication tool between student, parent and educator. Unlike the school homework planner that many students receive from their school district, this plann
4th - 12th
Journal It, Picture It, Record It: Speech Carryover for older students
Like many adults, many kids are attached to their technology. While I’m not advocating that you encourage your students to text obsessively and spend hours on their portable devices, I do believe that it can be an effective way of getting them to make a conscious effort to monitor their speech in situations OUTSIDE the therapy setting. You would be amazed at the level of interest students take in getting a school-based assignment completed when it involves using their own personal devices!!
Th
5th - 9th
Computer Science - Technology
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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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