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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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
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
“Roses are Red, Violets are Blue” Valentine Idioms for Older Students
This product was created exclusively for your middle/ high school students and includes a love/dating theme. Use it to help them gain a better understanding of idioms--and it's a great opportunity to get a conversation going about a topic that is very popular with this age group! Cut and laminate all cards for better durability Pages 3-4: “Roses are Red” Poem Matching cards-- Match the idiom to the poem that describes it. (please note that the cards are shown in corresponding matching order o
7th - 12th, Adult Education
Vocabulary
Also included in: Valentine Bundle: Language Activities 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
Do You Want to Build a Snowflake? Vocabulary Building Middle & High School
Wake up your winter language lessons with this very unique activity for your older students that combines geometric puzzle building with vocabulary building!
In this product, I have combined various shapes to create snowflake formations . Your students will have fun building snowflakes as they learn strategies for improving their vocabulary skills.
SIX unique snowflake designs are included . Each design varies by the number of shapes , which increases the challenge in assembly/collection of pi
6th - 12th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Winter Language Bundle {for older students}
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}
Distance Learning Vocabulary Building & Strategies for Older Students
How do you teach students new vocabulary?? It is so important to teach students to look beyond the memorization of dictionary definitions and further develop a deeper understanding of words meanings in practical, situational and contextual ways. **This product is geared primarily toward 7/8th grade and high school aged students. This packet contains : Six vocabulary strategy cards (to use as a reference for this product or any new vocabulary that you may address ) that provide specific ways
6th - 12th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Fall Language Bundle for Older Students
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
"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
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
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}
Pop-Its Are for Older Kids Too! {for complex direction following}
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________________________________________________________Pop Its are for Big Kids Too! These fidgets might be all the craze in your therapy sessions with younger students, but older students can also benefit from these stress-relieving, fun–to–pop toys. And by “older students” I don’t just mean your fifth graders—I mean your middle and high scho
5th - 12th
LANGUAGE CHEF| Halloween| Language Skills| Cooking| Visual Recipes
Spooky Spider Web Treats is a step-by-step visual recipe (using full-color photos) for addressing communication skills with all ages and ability levels from my recipe resource ©LANGUAGE CHEF. (SEE VIDEO PREVIEW for demo!) This activity includes the following: •lesson plan page •full-color step-by-step recipe VISUALS (using real photos) •written directions Follow-up language extension activities: Rate the Recipe feedback sheetRecalling & Sequencing the recipe steps (visual activity)Recipe Summ
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I Heart Homophones--Leveled Vocabulary for Older Students
Homophones sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings and can be very challenging to use in the correct context! This activity will help your students get a better understating of how to use them properly while learning new vocabulary.
This is a leveled activity created for older students that includes 72 total cards. You can start off with less challenging/more familiar word pairs and move toward more challenging sets of homophones.
Cut apart all cards and laminate f
5th - 10th
Spelling
Also included in: Valentine Bundle: Language Activities for Older Students
Halloween Vocabulary Building for Older Students--"Mum's the Word!"
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These activities are made to challenge older students to
learn new vocabulary through various strategies. All words are
Halloween-themed, several with “mum” embedded in them.
30 total vocabulary words are introduc
5th - 10th
Vocabulary
Also included in: Fall Language Bundle for Older Students
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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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