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5 Easy Ways to Use Short Stories in The Classroom

Whether you are an SLP or a teacher, you can utilize short stories to support the students you work with. Short stories for kids are a great way to practice important reading skills, like comprehension, vocabulary, and story retell in the classroom. As an SLP, I like using these ideas to collaborate with the teacher […]

How to Use Short Stories for Speech Therapy

Short stories for speech therapy can be an incredibly versatile tool. Let me show you all the ways they can make your life easier by saving you time in planning and prep! Short Stories in Therapy You need short stories for your speech therapy sessions for a variety of reasons. In therapy, we are often […]

Summarizing Text with Graphic Organizers – Freebie!

Reading comprehension is a skill that we are constantly working on with our students that have speech and language disorders, and one of those very important comprehension skills is summarizing. This was a huge struggle for the students on my caseload because it’s not just tapping into struggles with receptive language, but also expressive. Luckily, […]

Tops and Bottoms Activities for Language

These Tops and Bottoms Activities are great for building language important language skills in the classroom or speech therapy sessions. This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. This week and next is all about farms and plants in my speech room, so I wanted to share some of the activities that we have been doing with […]

American Inventors Nonfiction Activities for Speech Therapy

I’m thrilled to have finished this packet so far in advance of inventors week on the theme calendar, which is scheduled for my last week in February! I knew the theme would be a great opportunity to not only explore my students’ creative minds, but to delve into some nonfiction text about some famous creative […]

Winter Speech Therapy Plans

I’m getting myself geared up to hit the classroom bright and early tomorrow. I know based on my theme therapy calendar that I’m doing all things winter this week (and probably next week too), so I wanted to share what is on my lesson plan to help you get ready too! First, the book I’m […]

{New} Fall Speech Activities

Hi friends. I’m going to preface this post with the fact that I am sick. I’ve been sick for three whole days. Because, school. What better way to spend sick days than working? Riiiiiiight. I am currently on self induced vocal rest, which is tough with it being football season and all. Working keeps my […]

Weekly Speech & Language Homework!

Could I BE any more excited about this? Anwser: No. Not possible. A goal of mine is to always have a home program for my students. Always. Regardless of whether they do it or not, I feel like it’s my job to provide it. And typically, I’m quite the procrastinator, so the home practice they […]

Using Sentence Strips for Main Idea Goals

This week we have been all about the presidents, so that means LOTS of non fiction text! With some of my intermediate kids, that also means working on comprehension strategies. I also have to incorporate a lot of writing and syntax skills in pretty much everything I do because of my students’ needs. So I […]

Chinese New Year Activities for Speech Therapy

This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. I LOVE using Chinese New Year activities in speech! I posted earlier this week about my Year of the Horse craftivity, BUT here are the rest of the activities we used this week! The book The Great Race is so fantastic…I literally can use it across my ENTIRE caseload. […]