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Animal Alliteration Activity

Alliteration Activity Cards

Why Work with Words? Playing with sounds can be so much fun when using alliteration.  For speech therapy groups it’s great for phonemic awareness and fun sound practice.  Develop better writing and vocabulary skills with your language therapy groups as well. Alliteration Animals and Actions Use these cards to get your students started with alliteration.  [...]

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Valentine’s Day Fix-up Worksheet

Language Therapy Worksheet - Valentines Fix-up Sentences

“Fix-ups” are a great way to have students identify and correct written errors, which can then carry-over to editing their own writing.  These Valentine’s Day fix-ups focus on capitalization, punctuation, and possessive “s” errors.  You can print copies of this language therapy worksheet for individual work or write the sentences on a board for a [...]

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Vivid Verb Replacement Story

Vivid Verbs Replacement Story

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 [...]

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Vivid Verbs Worksheets

Vivid Verbs Practice Worksheets

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 [...]

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Vivid Verbs Cards and Sorting Pages

Vivid Verbs Activity and Posters

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 [...]

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Vivid Verbs Pre-test and Post-test

Vivid Verbs Pre-test-and Post-test

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 [...]

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