What you need:

• paper plates (one for each child)
• scissors
• glue
• blue crayons
• paper fish, printed and cut apart

What to do:

1. Cut a small strip off an edge of the paper plate to make it resemble a fish bowl.
2. Have the child color it blue.  (If working with a group, the children can color while waiting for their turns.)
3. Let the child glue the fish onto the “bowl” as a reinforcement for working on therapy stimuli.

Therapy ideas:

• Initial /f/ or final “sh” sounds – Give the child a fish for each correct production of “fish”.
• Articulation practice – Write you own articulation words on the fish for the child to practice.
• Colors – Print the fish on different colored paper and have the child identify or name each color.
• Matching – Have the child match the fish by color or size.
• Counting practice – Each time the child adds a fish, he counts how many are in the bowl.

To watch a video from Sprout on how to make this craft, follow this link.

These printable pages are available for free and do not require a membership!  Just click on the link below.

There are many language concepts in math and the skills you can address with these cards help provide the foundation for them.  For example, the concept of comparing amounts of objects with “more than” and “less than” is based on the ability to first count objects and understand quantity.

These materials include instructions for three different activities, 12 black and white numbered glove cards, 12 color numbered glove cards, 10 cards of baseballs without numbers, 10 cards of baseballs with numbers, 2 “is more than” cards, and 2 “is less than” cards.

The materials provided can be used in a few different ways.

Bingo
Play bingo by saying the name of a calling card picture and having the students mark the picture on their board that rhymes with it. They can use pennies, tokens, dried beans, or pieces of colorful paper. When they get a whole row marked vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, they say, “Bingo!”

Matching Game
Make matching games for your students to use individually. Print a board and set of calling cards for each student and have the students place the calling card picture on top of the picture on their board that it rhymes with.

Memory Game
Play a rhyming memory game. Print one bingo board and the page of calling cards. Cut all of the pictures apart and place them face down in rows. On their turn, the students flip over two cards and decide if they rhyme. If so, they keep the pair and go again. If not, play passes to the next player. Continue playing until all of the pairs have been matched.

Worksheet vs. Activity

You can use the materials provided in two different ways.  You can use the worksheet as a handout or you can turn it into a group activity.  To make it a group activity, provide the students with the “always”, “sometimes”, “never” response cards included.  Say a statement aloud, have the students hold up their answers, and allow the students to explain their answers if there is any disagreement.  You can make it competitive by giving a point for each correct answer if you’d like.

A worksheet with 20 statements, an answer sheet, and student response cards are included.  These materials are available for our members.  Become a member today and have unlimited access to ALL of our materials.

How to use the materials

After reading a card or rebus sentence, your student puts the two food items listed in front of him.  Then he decides what to give to the caterpillar.  For example, if the student gets a card that reads, “The caterpillar eats either the celery or the pickle,” he should get the celery and the pickle and then place only one of the two food choices listed in front of the caterpillar.  You can have the student explain the move by saying, “The caterpillar only eats the celery”.

If the sentence says, “The caterpillar eats neither the potato nor the corn,” the student still picks the two food items, but does not give them to the caterpillar.  He explains that the caterpillar does not get any food.  If the sentence says that the caterpillar eats both, the student gives both food pictures to the caterpillar.

A caterpillar,  20 food items, 30 cards, 18 rebus sentences, a reference page, and instructions for the activity are provided for members.

I have found that while all of the students I work with have heard of nouns and verbs, most can’t pick out these parts of speech in a sentence before we practice it.  So, here are some worksheets to use as a pretest or as practice for identifying and sorting the subjects (simple subject nouns), verbs, and prepositional phrases of sentences.  (You can have the students identify just the subject and verb if they are not ready for prepositions.)

Enjoy!

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1. Home Program – Basic Set

This set of materials makes home programs easier for you to make and easier for parents and students to complete. What could be better?!

Included are instructions for the SLP to give to parents, along with home program materials for language development, /s/, and /l/. For the speech sounds, there are practice calendars, picture cards, picture charts, and a game board.

For additional language materials, /r/, “er”, /k/, and “th” home program activities, check out the Home Program Expansion Set.

Check out this therapy material: Home Program – Basic Set
Related materials: Home Program – Expansion Set
 

2. Pirate Game Board with Cards

Beware of pirates and obstacles as you make your way around Pirate Island! Will you find gold coins and move forward…or will you get lost in a dark cave and have to go backward?

Use this game with all of your seafaring students by using any stimuli you want. Included are instructions, a game board, and 16 different playing cards.

Check out this therapy material: Pirate Game Board with Cards
Related materials: Pirates Theme – Basic Set
 

3. Vivid Verbs Mini Set

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.

This set includes a pre-test worksheet that can be used to get a sample of the verbs your students use. Then use the 50 word cards, 10 sorting pages, vivid verb lists, and 4 worksheets to practice with your students. Finally, use the post-test worksheet to see their progress.

Check out this therapy material: Vivid Verbs Mini Set
 

4. Initial Sound Matching Cards

Awareness of phonemes, the smallest units of sound, is important for reading and working on speech sounds. You can help your students work on one of the earliest phonemic awareness tasks by matching words that have the same initial sound.

Included are 10 pairs (20 picture cards) of words that begin with the same sound. They are available in color and black and white.

Check out this therapy material: Initial Sound Matching Cards
 

5. Rhyming Fill-in Story Inspired by Green Eggs and Ham

Green Eggs and Ham is the best selling Dr. Seuss book and a favorite rhyming story for many young readers. This classic book encourages children to try something new because they may discover that they enjoy it. You can read this book with your students before completing the fill-in story, which may help them become more familiar with poetic rhythm and rhyme.

Students will identify rhyming words and then use them to fill-in the blanks and complete our story Why Not Steak or Maybe Cake?, which was inspired by Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.

Check out this therapy material: Rhyming Fill-in Story Inspired by Green Eggs and Ham

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1. Tongue Tip Trouble – Fronting /t/ for /k/

How can you quickly solve the fronting of /k/? Tackle the tongue tip! Getting /k/ in isolation is easily achieved by keeping the child’s tongue tip from making contact with the alveolar ridge or teeth.

This idea includes 2 printable materials available for free to everyone!
Read the entire idea: Tongue Tip Trouble – Fronting /t/ for /k/
 

2. Articulation Stories for Any Sound

Yeah! Your client can successfully use his target sound in words and sentences! Now what? It’s time to take it to the next level. If the child can read, I recommend having him read sound-loaded stories before jumping straight into conversational speech practice.

Read the entire idea: Articulation Stories for Any Sound
 

3. Penny Toss

Need a fun way to get your clients to produce a lot of responses? Then give this game a shot. All you need are some pennies (or plastic chips or beans) and an egg carton or ice cube tray.

Read the entire idea: Penny Toss
 
 
 
 

4. Pocket Chart Memory Game for Speech or Language Therapy

Here is a fun twist on a classic memory game that gets the students up and involved. You can play it with a pocket chart, put the cards up on a board held with magnets, or simply lay the cards out on the table. By choosing different picture or word cards and changing the number of cards used, you can alter the difficulty and the targeted goals.

Read the entire idea: Pocket Chart Memory Game for Speech or Language Therapy
 

5. Pick a Stick Therapy Activity

This is a quick-to-make, versatile, and portable activity that is great for a wide variety of speech and language therapy goals. You can even use it with groups of students working on different skills!

This idea includes a FREE printable word list for multiple meaning words!
Read the entire idea: Pick a Stick Therapy Activity

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These sentences make it easier to work with a group of students who are focused on different sounds or skills.  Every sentence contains the /k/, /l/, /s/, and “r” sounds.  The sentences can also be used to identify parts of speech.  There are 25 Easter sentences and 25 spring sentences available for members.

What you need:

• Sentences printed on green paper and cut apart into strips.  (You can wrap the pieces around your finger or a pencil if you want to make them curly.)
• Large bowl or basket
• Plastic eggs

What to do:

1. Pass out the sentence strips to the students.
2. Place the bowl or basket in the middle of the table.
3. During each turn, the students read a sentence, focusing on their sound or language skill, and then add the paper strip to the bowl or basket.  If they say their sound or answer accurately, give them half of a plastic egg.
4. Once all of the sentence strips are in the bowl or basket, have the students put their eggs together (trading parts with others if needed) and place them on top of the “grass”.

There are many variations of this activity that you can do by placing stimuli or points in the eggs and giving them out whole, having the students name an Easter or spring word with their sounds before adding their eggs, etc.

Leave a comment to share with us how you used the sentence strips in therapy.

What to do:

1. If playing with a group, divide the students into pairs.  If there’s an odd number, you can play to even out the teams.
2. Print out a game page for each pair.  Cut the ladybug and bee pieces apart.
3. After students give a designated number of responses, reward them with a playing piece (either a ladybug or bee).
4. Once each student has earned 4 pieces, let the games begin!  Give the ladybug players the fifth ladybug, and let them make the first move.
5. The players take turns placing one of their pieces on a flower, trying to get three in a row before their opponent does.

Hints and tips:

• You can put magnets on the back of the pieces and play on a magnetic board or cookie sheet.
• Place Velcro dots on the centers of the flowers and the opposite side of the Velcro on the back of the pieces.

Have a bit of fun as you welcome spring into your therapy sessions!