Speech Therapy Ideas & Speech Therapy Activities

Verb variety is the key to this activity/game.  Students reach into a bag or bowl and pull out a game card.  Then they have to fill in a missing verb to complete the sentence on the card. To play it as a competitive game, have the student or team complete the sentence with as many [...]

Students practice finding and replacing boring verbs with vivid verbs on this worksheet.  First they find the boring verbs in the story, then they rewrite the story replacing the boring verbs with their own vivid verbs. This page can be used together with the vivid verb pre-test and post-test, cards and sorting pages, and identification [...]

These worksheets give students practice identifying and sorting vivid verbs.  The first worksheet has students cross out the boring verb choice and circle the vivid verb that completes the sentence.  On the next two worksheets, the students write the vivid verbs from the word bank below the boring verb that they could replace.  The ten [...]

Help your students learn more about vivid verbs and the boring verbs they can replace with these 50 vivid verb cards and 10 sorting pages. An answer sheet is also included. What you need: vivid verb cards, printed and cut apart boring verb sorting pages, printed on cardstock or colored paper, if possible What to [...]

Using vivid verbs instead of boring verbs can greatly improve your students’ written and verbal sentences. Use these worksheets to get a sample of the verbs your students use to finish sentences.  You can then compare their verb usage before and after you work on vivid verbs. These pages can be used together with the [...]

Helping your students upgrade their verbs from “boring verbs” to “vivid verbs” can improve their written and verbal sentences tremendously.  By teaching them to use more specific verbs, they’ll be able to create images in their reader or listener’s mind. Materials included in the mini set: 2 worksheets that can be used as a pre-test [...]