FREE Cariboo /l/ and /l/ blends Kit

Speechies!!!

Doesn't Cranium make the best games? I think so too!

Well, as much as my kids love to play Cranium Cariboo, I wanted to switch things up for my articulation kids to make for extra practice of their sounds. I have created cards which fit perfectly on top of the doors. These cards are for /l/ sounds in the initial, medial, and final positions. I also have /l/ blends in the initial and final positions. :)

In this download you will find over 20 picture cards per position (Cariboo has only 15 slots) to choose from,  BONUS sample phrases and sentences, and backer sheets if you like to organize the cards.

Sorry if the picture is a little blurry... I'm trying :)

 

I like to keep the cards in a zip loc baggie separated by context (initial/medial/final /blends positions). A plastic jewelry baggie/ button bag will also fit them perfectly!

Make sure you laminate them for durability! Have fun!

Marissa

PLEASE NOTE: YOU WILL HAVE TO CUT INSIDE THE BLACK LINES/SQUARES IN ORDER FOR IT TO FIT INSIDE OF SOME OF YOUR CARIBOO GAMES!

You can find this FREEBIE at my TPT store:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Cariboo-Articulation-cards-l-and-l-blends-with-a-BONUS-923371





Make sure that you check out the WH- Questions Cariboo activity at: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cariboo-Wh-Questions-Who-What-and-Where-940734

All about /s/ blends Kit!

 

You can use this kit for /s/ blends all year round if you wanted to! Included in this 50 page kit are worksheets, activities, therapy techniques to help elicit the  /s/ cluster sound,and much more!

Contents included (page by page):
Pages 3-8: 12 sets of minimal pairs
Pages 9-.15: 6 pages of /s/ blend pacing boards: SP, SN, ST, SK, SL, and SW
Pages 16- 18: 3 pages of Drill color sheets
Page 19: Drill phrases worksheet
Pages 20- 39: Theme / Season/ Holiday activities
Pages 40- 47 BINGO/ BLEND boards plus call outs
Pages 48-49: Organization sheets (in case you want to print/ laminate and store the contents in a folder)
Page 50: Credits

 You can find this kit at my TPT store at:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-s-Blends-Kit-917917

Thanks,
Marissa!

All About Apples Board Games!

I love to use the Apples theme towards the beginning of the school year. To make it easier on myself, I have created three (3) open ended games to use for all of my sessions. They can be used for articulation, language, fluency, etc. After practicing targeted speech sounds, language concepts, or while using slow and effortless speech, your student can add Bingo chips/ dauber, apples from the grab bag, or maneuver throughout the board game.

Game boards included:

1. Open Ended Board Game:
Be the first person to reach the bushel of apples!

2. Bingo Dauber/ Magnetic Chip Game :
Place your Bingo or Magnetic Chips on top of each apple once you practice your speech sounds/ language concepts!

 3. Apple Tree Grab Bag Game:
Beware of the Bad apples. The person with the most good apples on the tree is the winner!


You can find these games at my TPT site:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/All-About-Apples-Open-Ended-Board-Games-882830

Thanks,

Marissa

Apple Idioms!

One bad apple really does spoil a bunch! No worries, downloading this document will be as easy as pie. (wink wink)

In this file for Apple related Idioms, you can find picture cards, a Ladder Game, and a bonus worksheet to use as a carryover activity.


You can purchase this file from my TPT here:
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Apple-Idioms-889972


Thanks,

Marissa

Mrs. Moody, What's that?

What does that word mean? This is a common question made by my 4th and 5th graders. Every now and then I'll use a big word around them just to see if they are listening. Sometimes they will ask for me to tell them what it means.

 

Earth Day is coming up and I have created a context clues activity with related vocabulary. Once you print, laminate, and cut cards out, you can use them to match the vocabulary word with the appropriate definition. It has a bonus worksheet that can be used as a carryover with the same twelve (12) words presented earlier. The students can write their own sentence and later color the picture at the bottom of the page.

You can find the FREEBIE at my TPT store:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Context-Clues-with-Bonus-worksheet

Thanks and look for more to come,

Marissa

Mamma Mia!!

Mamma Mia!!! It's the Speecheria!!

Every year I love the pizza theme! All of the preschool and kindergartners are working on making pizzas. We are working on pizza vocabulary, colors, sequencing, and as reinforcement for articulation or fluency.

What you'll need: (ALL from the Dollar Tree)
-Construction paper. I had red (for sauce), brown (sausage), green (green peppers), white (onions), gray (mushrooms), yellow and orange (cheese), and black (olives)
-Paper plates (I have an abundance of these)
-Glue
-Maybe a sharpie/ black marker for labeling parts

You can use however you want. I first begin with a small book that I printed about pizza. (It's short and about 7 pages with short sentences.) You can then put the pizza together by identifying or naming items, then gluing them. For articulation, I drill a lot- so, after about 15-20 productions of the target sound, they can add pieces. We work on vocabulary by categories (meats: pepperoni, sausage, bacon, ham; veggies: peppers, mushrooms, olives, onions, tomatoes; dairy: cheese). You can also make them silly by discussing things that do not belong on a pizza (ie cow, car, etc.).

I also use this song video- (The one I loved was deleted from you tube, but this one was just fine).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFxwqrOKeYc

For the older kids- 1st and 2nd graders, I have been using Dina Peters board game with associated ~27 questions. I have had it for a few years, and I love to use it.

You can find it here- http://www.speechtherapygames.com/token.htm


For 3rd- 5th graders, I use: Go for the Dough board game.

It targets:

80 synonyms 80 rhyming words 80 opposites

80 categories 80 multiple meaning 80 definitions

You can find it at Super Duper.

What do you do for the pizza theme?

Ciao Speechies!

Articulation Bingo: CH Freebie

I have begun making BINGO for speech sounds in ALL positions!

Make sure you use your Chipper Chat Wand and chips, Bingo Dauber, or whatever you like to use!
Enjoy and be on the lookout for more speech sound Bingo activities!


You can find the "ch" sound FREEBIE at my TPT website below:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Articulation-BINGO-CH-freebie


Thank you!

Marissa

Things That Go/ Transportation and FREEBIE

This post is for preschoolers/lower elementary students working on the category: Transportation!
Make sure you Check your local Dollar Tree!  The one on our side of town has LOTS of teacher/ educational resources. I like to get their foam stickers. They even have them broken into category or theme!

My young kids are working on categories. I figured I'd use my foam stickers and book(s) about things that go. For my preschoolers- Go Dog Go (By Dr. Seuss) book as it talks about and shows ways to get from here to there!

 

 

 

 

We went through the book talked about the types of things that go: bikes, cars, skates, skiis, etc.

We then went through my foam stickers and identified and labeled each piece.

Next week, we will go through newspapers, magazines, etc with the category sort worksheet. You can find the freebie worksheet HERE:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Things-That-Go-Transportation-Category-Sort-FREEBIE

Thanks,
Marissa

Classroom layout

Although I am contracted to serve kids at an elementary school, I thought that it would be important [to me] to be able to make it 'my space'. Also, we've been paying storage to house my belongings. I love working at a school!

You'll see pics of the room I have this year and what I have done with it. Some things are not pictured because they are at home.

Froggy's First Kiss Articulation and Language Packet

Hello Speechies!

Valentine's Day is around the corner! In honor of this special day, I have created an articulation and language (wh- questions and categories) packet based off of the book Froggy's First Kiss!

 

The picture above is what I have used for a few years. I have re created and added activities.The coin toss frog printable is from education.com. You can look at that one for yourself. I have recreated one for a Valentine theme.

 Included in the 10 page packet are:

-Articulation Word List from book
-Wh- Questions from book (who, what, where, how, why)
-Kiss Toss Game with frog and kisses/lips
- Bingo/ Dauber Board Game
-Categories Ladder Game


Not the best picture- But these are the games that go with the packet. On the left is the Bingo/ Dauber Game. I love Chipper Chat, so I try to find ways to extend the use out of my wand and chips. You can buy just the wand and chips separately, or if you do not have Chipper Chat, use a Bingo Dauber/Stamper (the Dollar Tree sells them), or put a sticker in each circle.

In the middle is the new frog toss game. I have included the kisses that you can laminate and cut out. I am still using the same one from almost 4 years ago. I taped them to poker chips so that they could be heavy enough to throw into Froggy's mouth. I taped Froggy to a file folder with enough space so that the kisses can fly inside.

To the right is a categories ladder game. All you'll need is a dice or a spinner with numbers (if you have board games, you could one of those for this- no need of spending extra money). Follow the arrows once you roll the dice and answer the questions related to categories. The first person who finishes wins!

You can find this packet at my Teachers Pay Teachers store by clicking below:

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Froggys-First-Kiss-articulation-and-wh-question-packet

For those of you who are new to Teachers Pay Teachers, it is of no cost to join. You can find A LOT of freebies there! I have a bunch of stuff from this site for speech therapy.

Thanks,

Marissa


*Graphics from Scrappin Doodles and Microsoft Office Clip Art

Goodwill... doing the most Good!

Speechies-

Don't sleep on Goodwill! Although I probably have over 40+ board games (seriously), I did not resist going to Goodwill to see the "new" things in the gaming area. I came across some really good games (some I have had my eye on for several years). I bought six games total (one was for my personal home pleasure). They were all $3.99 and a nice lady swiped her Goodwill discount card for me. Yay! I spent roughly $21.00 all together. One game in itself is $32.00.

Hmm... want me to tell you what I purchased?

-  Mouse Trap
- Whoonu
- Cadoo
- 20 Questions for Children
- Charoodles

And for home- Outburst.

I will blog about how I have tweaked them for use in speech therapy. Some of them do not need to be tweaked as they are all focusing around using vocabulary and answering questions.  Stay tuned for more details!
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Jeopardy in Speech Therapy

Welcome Speechies!

I figured I'd get started on my blogs.

 All of my 3rd-5th graders have been working on vocabulary by way of synonyms, antonyms, multiple meanings, descriptions, etc.

This week we are playing Jeopardy!  It's weird that most of my kiddos have never even heard of Jeopardy. (I can understand if they weren't active participants of the show at home, but most showed puzzled faces when I asked them if they had heard of the show).

I have played Dina Peters (speechtherapygames.com) free PowerPoint version of Jeopardy before, but wanted to "play" it again. My students enjoyed competing last time we played Jeopardy.

My categories are: synonyms, antonyms, questions (for listening comprehension), attributes and multiple meanings.

They will be using Eggspert to "ding in" their answers:
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They will keep a count of their points by using their dry erase boards.

Final Jeopardy has four choices (labeled A-D) with the some of the same topics presented during the entire game. The person with the most points can choose which one the entire group will have to answer .

I plan to reward the winner with a McDonald's gift card.

I can use the Jeopardy board for any activity: language or articulation due to LAMINATING the board.

Materials: poster board, neon library pouches, markers, tape, and index cards.