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The Hungry Giant by Joy Cowley targeting vocabulary & prepositions
The Hungry GiantGreat follow-up activities to review vocabulary. Go on a bee hunt for vocabulary and have them look "under/in/behind" to target prepositions too! Can incorporate bees by talking about...
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The Hungry Giant's Soup by Joy Cowley targeting sequencing, verbs, opposites
Make soup follow-up activity to work on sequencing and verbs (i.e., cut, stir, cry etc.). You can pretend play and make a small vs. large soup and eat with a "giant" spoon. Work on opposites big/small...
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Stuttering therapy materials for easy onset
I created this easy onset graphic to introduce the concept of easying through the vowel to the consonant (good for adolescent clients who stutter). I have the client slide their finger along the graph...
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Word Analysis for If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Word analysis folder activity with vocabulary from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. After reviewing the story and vocabulary have children help fill in the sentence blanks.Submitted by Lamar...
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Sound Identification
The sets of pictures below were used for various sound identification games. For instance, children were asked to find every word that starts with /m/ and give it to a moose and discard the others in...
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Sound Identification
After reading the story Please, Puppy, Please by Spike Lee, clients helped complete the sentences in this folder activity. They were then prompted to identify the first sounds in the key words and...
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Letter Awareness, Sound Identification, & Letter Naming Puppy-Themed Craft
-letter inventory s p m f-match upper and lower case letters-name letters-ID sound of each letterEach child gets an 4 rhinestones that have lower case versions of the target letters written on them....
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Word Tracing and Copying
First children were given an overlay for the top of the paper that matched the bottom but had the word puppy filled in. They were instructed to copy the word, letter by letter, into the blanks on...
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Word Analysis Activity for Please, Puppy, Please by Spike Lee
After reading Please, Puppy, Please by Spike Lee and reviewing vocabulary, use this word analysis activity to have children fill in the sentence blanks. Related images can provide a helpful cue as a...
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Sound Blending with Dog Bones
This sound blending activity accompanied a lesson designed around Spike Lee's book, Please, Puppy, Please. CVC (and a few other vocabulary) words such as like, puppy, me (cv), gate, feed, wash, mine,...
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Word Analysis and Vocabulary Activities for "Little Red Hen"
After reading The Little Red Hen, this word analysis file folder activity was used to have children help tell the story by filling in the blanks. These puppets were used for a dramatic play vocabulary...
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Sound Blending and Segmenting Folder Activity
The short "a" sound was targeted in the classroom the week this activity was used in therapy so all of the CVC words contained the short "a" sound (cat, tap, mat, cap, map, sap, sat, bat, pat, and...
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Sound Identification and Sound Blending
The first sound in each word was missing so children could practice creating different words by replacing that first sound. Clinician asked clients questions such as, "If you have the word "see" and...
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Sound Blending
Make vocabulary words on cookies with the first letter detachable with Velcro. Go through selected vocabulary words from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff to familiarize clients with the...
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The Five Senses Vocabulary
This activity targets vocabulary associated with the five senses: ears/hear, mouth/taste, hands/touch, nose/smell, eyes/see. It is a silly and fun part-to-whole felt board activity that can be...
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Initial Sound Identification
Have children say the names of the items at the top of each strip and identify the first sound in each word. Then have them sort a pile of various images according to initial sound and place it on the...
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Rhyme Tree
After reading a thematically-related storybook, client identified and "picked" rhyming pairs of apples and put them in the basket.Submitted by Lamar University Speech-Language Pathology graduate...
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Simple Brochures on Acquired Communication Disorders
These brochures are intended to provide families with basic information on aphasia, dysarthria, apraxia, and cognitive communicative disorders. They include a general overview of each disorder and...
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Simple Brochure on Dysphagia
This brochure is intended to provide clients and families with basic information on dysphagia and various diet levels. It includes a very general overview of swallowing disorders and includes...
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Space theme to build narrative and semantic skills
Space theme to build narrative and semantic skills. Using the "Magic School Bus Takes a Moonwalk" book, have the child identify vocabulary words. Have the client pair pictures with words and define...
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Dining Out
For special needs kids, dining out is a functional activity that requires a little practice ahead of time. The dining out experience builds vocabulary such as restaurant, menu, waiter/waitress, check,...
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Story Recall, Vocabulary, and Prepositions with Splishy Sploshy
Using a decorated box, adhesive characters and objects, the client was scaffolded during follow-up story-related activities to increase sequencing, preposition usage, description, and vocabulary...
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Picture Schedule with Timer
Using a simple picture schedule, the client can assist in creating the order of events for the therapy session (or the same order can be used each session). Once that order is determined, transitioning...
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One-Step Directions with Favorite Characters
This activity was designed to engage a client who prefers to play independently. Targeting one-step directions, clinicians used characters and a Nick Jr. program the client responds to and engaged...
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Camping Thematic Unit for Pre-K and PPCD clients
This unit includes a variety of activities to target expressive and receptive language skills for the Pre K and PPCD population.Picture exchange selection board for the client to request desired...
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