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Straw Planes Receptive Language Activity

Hey friends. Just posting this quick activity I did last week with some kids. I saw these cute planes at Allfortheboys.com. They're a little different than the same old paper airplane activity Target 1 & 2 step directions while you build a straw plane. You can then work on just about any goals while you race your planes and discuss them. Verb tenses, comparatives/superlatives, ... Read More about Straw Planes Receptive Language Activity

Cars Roll & Remove Reinforcer

So many of my speech groups contain very diverse groups of kids. I love this quick game because the kids can manage it themselves, it's fast and it works for those diverse groups where no 2 kids are working on similar goals. Although it's titled as a articulation reinforcer... it works for anything. Students just cover their game card with bingo chips. They roll the dice ... Read More about Cars Roll & Remove Reinforcer

SpeechBook

Let's bring social networking into the speech room. Our kids are loving all things digital, so lets give them a little facebook based language activity! My students helped me decide which characters should be in 'speechbook" There are 2 versions for SpeechBook. One version includes sentences on the 'wall', where the student needs to fill in the correct pronoun. The other version has ... Read More about SpeechBook