I am always looking for fun, new activities for my students. SpeechPage.Com has oodles of great activities to help you target your student’s speech and language needs. They really think like an SLP when they create their materials. Their activities come already laminated, velcro attached, three hole punched, and in plastic bags! Wow, its like they read my organization wish list!
Today I want to share three of these great activities: Following Multi-Steps! C, AAC Requesting, and Articulation Find It Scene! 6A.
First let’s look at Following Multi-Steps! This activity targets, you guessed it, following multi-step directions. There is a prompt sample page that gives examples of how each page can be used for giving directions. The prompt page gives lots of suggestions of item pairings and order while keeping things general so that you can customize the activity to your students goals. You could target: on, before, after, first, next, last, second, third, between, etc. A fun thing about this activity is that you can pair different items, since everything is velcro, to make some silly combinations that students will definitely giggle about. How about an ice cream and tomato burger?
Next up, AAC Requesting. This activity contains 4 picture puzzles for students work on requesting pieces using any method of communication such as pointing, PECS, a speech generating device, verbal speech, etc. The puzzles are really cute and the pieces are well defined. This would be a great activity for students starting to working on advocacy skills, as well as, describing.
Finally, we have Articulation Find It Scenes! These cute and colorful scenes each have 100 words targeting the designated sound. These particular scenes target /R/ in all positions and /S/ in all positions. Think of it like a ‘Where’s Waldo’ for sounds. With this activity there are so many options to really customize it into a fun and different activity each time you play. You can describe a specific item in the scene, have the student locate it, then repeat the word X amount of times or see who can find the most pictures, there are so many possibilities and with 100 words in each picture your students will get plenty of practice.
These activities are affordable, durable, direct, and fun for kids. They hit all the points on my check list! To check out these and more fun, creative activities by SpeechPage.Com visit their website.
*Disclaimer: These activities were provided to complete this review. The thoughts and opinions are my own.
[…] I know, it looks cool, doesn’t it?! Well, it is! This awesome activity contains four fun interactive scenes. The scenes come ready to use since they are in a plastic bag, already laminated, three holed punched for the option of being put into a three ring binder (see my binder below), have various slits in them (in/through/behind), and already have attached Velcro!! What a relief- I didn’t have to put a product together myself this time:) Their titles are: At the Zoo, At the Carnival, At the Pool, & At the Circus. Each scene has vocabulary targeted words which are on a Velcro strip on the edge of the page to be used in the picture. The prepositions of in, behind, between, in front, on, beside, between, under, over, up and down are encouraged. The pack comes with an additional page which shows images of each preposition and can help guide the person asking for the preposition completion and/or give a visual to the learner. The additional page also has ideas on how the therapist can fully utilize the scenes. The many ways I have used this product:-of course for targeting prepositions: i.e. “Put the cup on”, “Put the sunglasses next to”, “Place the shoes between”, “Place the water bottle behind.”-vocabulary enrichment: i.e. “Let’s name all the pictures at the pool.” “Name what is at the carnival”. “What do we do at the zoo?”-following directions: i.e. “Please put the clown next to the elephant.” “Put the hamburger on the snack bar.” “Put the zoo keeper next to the giraffe and then put the popcorn on the bench.”-wh questions: i.e. “Do you like ice cream?” “Have you been to a carnival?” “Where is the shoe?” “What would you do if you were hungry here?”-fine motor: “Take off the teddy bear and put it through the balloon castle.” “Write out the word zoo.”-articulation: i.e. “r” bird, “grr” says the bear, giraffe, zebra-literacy: i.e. “What letter does zoo start with?” “How many syllables in the word sunglasses?” “What rhymes with shoe?”-concepts: i.e. “What would you do first, second and last at the zoo?” “What shape is the ball?” “Should we call the girl a he or a she?”Since I received this product I have pulled it out to use numerous times with many of my students of different ages. They always enjoy the interactive nature of them and I love the versatility of being able to target so many of their speech and language goals! I also enjoy being able to incorporate them into our themed units i.e. during ice cream week I used the zoo mat since one of its vocabulary targets was an ice cream cone. For all these reasons I can now say with good confidence that Interactive Prepositions are now one of my favorite speech therapy go to products! If you haven’t seen or used any of the products from Speech Page- go check them out- you won’t be disappointed:) Speech Page Website and their online catalog can be found: HERESpeech Time Fun review of Speech Page products can be found: HERESpeech Bubble review of Speech Page products can be found: HERE […]