Autumn Activities
Welcome autumn! If you’re like me, you’re ready for some cooler weather and fun, fall activities. I love to use the changing of seasons to introduce new vocabulary, games, and activities into my sessions. It’s also a great time to reinforce previously learned skills from a different angle. Try some of these apple activities or [...]
Describing Dogs – A Fun Language Therapy Activity
Why work on describing?
Describing with details helps a child be specific about the different attributes of an item. This can help students with comparing and contrasting, using details in their writing, and increasing their vocabularies.
Creativity disclaimer
First off, I must give credit where credit is due. This wonderful activity is used by the teachers in my [...]
Categories- A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place
Do you want a way to help your clients expand their vocabularies and improve their describing skills? If so, work on categorization.
Organization
When things are organized, you can find what you need quickly and know where things go once you’ve obtained them. The same is true for linguistic organization. Understanding how things go together allows us [...]
The Secret to Decoding Basic Word Problems
There comes a time in a student’s life when a dreaded thing happens to their math assignments… the numbers start getting overrun by words! There are words everywhere and numbers hiding here and there. Ahh!
While word problems can be intimidating to any typical student, they can seem downright impossible to figure out for the student with [...]