We hope you all had an amazing Thanksgiving with family and friends!

Cyber Monday is this coming Monday, November 27th, and we have been gathering some amazing deals for you! Have you had your eye on any of these great resources for speech therapy? Now is the perfect time to give them a try!

1. SLP Toolkit: 50% off the monthly subscription rate for two months for new subscribers! The code is case sensitive and is CybMon17

https://www.slptoolkit.com/

2. Super Duper Publications: 25% off Webber Card Combos! This one is good from Friday-Tuesday, so you can start shopping now!

https://www.superduperinc.com/

 

3. Teachers Pay Teachers: 25% off site-wide!!! The code is CYBER17

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/

Be sure to check out our store and use the discount code CYBER17 for 25% off while you are there:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Speech-N-Teach

4. SLP Now: $25 off the Yearly Materials/Tools Memberships or $37 off the bundle. The code is THANKFULSLP. (This discount is the equivalent to getting two months for free on top of the bundle discount!!)

https://slpnow.com/

5. Speechpathology.com: Get a FREE bonus month & enjoy 13 months of unlimited CEU access!!! This deal is running today and tomorrow (11/27-11/28) with the promocode: 13MONTH

https://www.speechpathology.com

6.  Speechbloguk: 20% off speech sound packs until Monday night with the code BLACKFRIDAY

https://speechbloguk.com

/7. Melocomm Speech and Language: The Melocomm Family Bundle will be just 12.99 (That’s over 25% off a bundle of six apps) and the self-analysis of stuttering app SASEA will be 50% off all day Monday!

http://www.melospeech.com/

8. AHSA Store: 40% off everything today with the promo code: CYBER17

https://www.asha.org/eweb/OLSDynamicPage.aspx?Webcode=olsmainpage

 

9. Games: Revamp your reinforcers!!!

Toys R Us: 5.99 selected preschool games (trouble, candy land, chutes and ladders pictured in ad), 14.99 all Hasbro Jr. games and select family games, 10.99 select classic games, 20% off Apples to Apples and Uno games and other selected family games!
Target: Cyber Week sales on Sunday, November 26th but the main event offer is 15% Off site-wide MONDAY ONLY. Target is offering free shipping and free returns on all orders. 20% off exclusive games here

Walmart:  UNO card game is 4.89, Pie Face is 5.88! See all game deals here

Amazon:

Save up to 50% on select toys from Hasbro Gaming, NERF, Play-Doh, and more here

10. Craft Supplies: Put some of those crafty pins you’ve been saving to use!

Toys R Us: Buy one get one 40% off all CrayolaJoann Fabrics: 2.99 shipping, 50% off entire stock of storage!

Michael’s Craft: 50% off one regular priced item with the code 50SAV112617     60% off craft storage and 2017-18 planners by The Happy Planner!!!!

Please see individual websites for terms/conditions and any potential changes to the above mentioned offers! This post has not been sponsored, and is just a collection of the best deals we could find online. We do have an affiliation with teacherspayteachers.com, where we have our own store, Speech N Teach, which will be included in the site-wide promotion.

Happy shopping!

Speech, Teach, and Love,

Ana & Lacy

Have you tried wordless picture books with your groups?

If not, I highly recommend it. They open the door to discussion and allow for therapists to target SO MANY goals at once. They are also perfect for non-readers, and older students who struggle with reading and typically shut down when you pull out a book in a group setting.

You may be nervous to try a wordless picture book, but you’ll be relieved to find that there are already materials made to help guide you through how to best utilize them. You don’t have to re-invent the wheel! These five book companions provide fantastic ideas and resources for adding wordless picture books to your therapy tool kit.

“Flora and the Flamingo” is an adorable book by Molly Idle, showcasing a girl who befriends and dances with a flamingo. The companion packet from Speech is Sweet is currently FREE on Teachers Pay Teachers. Download it now for following directions, “wh” questions, describing, sorting, and fl blend articulation printables.

 

 

Mark Pett’s wordless picture book, “The Girl and the Bicycle” tells the story of a persistent little girl who diligently works towards her goal of buying a shiny new bicycle. Our companion activities include activities and worksheets to focus on skills including: inferencing, comprehension, story retell, sequencing, describing, comparing/contrasting, verb tenses, sentence structure, pronouns, qualitative & spatial concepts, articulation, and fluency.

 

 

Bill Thomson delights readers with his book “Chalk”, about two kids who discover a magical bag of chalk on a rainy day.  You can download companion activities from Speech Time Fun that make it easy to target a wide variety of goals, including sequencing, “wh” questions, higher level questions, verbs, predicting, cause/effect, tier 2 vocabulary, and describing.

 

 

“Tuesday,” by David Wiesner is a fun, wordless story about frogs on a frolic. The companion activities, created by A Green and Gold Speech Therapist will make it easy to use the book to target vocabulary, verb tense, adjectives, prepositions, sequencing, synonyms, comparing and contrasting, emotions, senses, articulation/phonology, and story retell. I really enjoyed using the open ended game board and card game that came in the packet.

 

“Flotsam,” by David Wiesner is about a little boy who finds a mysterious camera and had the pictures developed. Cathy Ruth has made an extremely unique lapbook activity to accompany the book. The lapbook format includes inferencing, illustration prompts, text-to-self application, map work, science and history connections, character study, and a flip-book study of reality versus fantasy.

NOTE: The books mentioned in this blog post are not included with any of the companion packets and must be purchased separately. The creators of these companion activities have no affiliations with the authors of the books, and have simply created speech and language activities can be used with the stories.

Speech, Teach, and Love,

Ana

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Do you ever have students light up and say “Oh! I’ve done these before!” when you pull out a tried and true printable game? Kids love routines and they love things that are familiar.

Better yet, we don’t have to waste precious therapy time explaining rules when we could be getting high repetitions of therapy targets! We can also send printables home with the student after the session to use as homework targets and to keep parents in the loop about what we are working on in therapy.

Here are some of our favorites! We hope you enjoy them too!

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1. Our articulation and language maze activities are my favorite go-to no-prep printable for mixed groups. It is a life saver to have one activity that my articulation and language students can work at the same time. The language mazes are even divided by Level 1 skills (K-2) and Level 2 skills (3-6) for synonyms, antonyms, and multiple meaning words!
2. These fantastic articulation puzzles for every month include the following sounds: p, b, m, n, t, d, h, w, k, g, f, v, s, z, s-blends, l-blends, r-blends, pre-vocalic r, vocalic r, l, ch, sh, th, and J.  My favorite thing about them is that they include a picture cue for each target word non-readers. They are a huge hit in my KG-3rd grade groups.
3. Our dot-to-dots are a no-prep printable that your students will love! They will connect a dot each time they say a target sound and to make form a picture. Each set has 20-25 words per page,  and each unit includes over 150 Dot-to-Dot pages targeting K, G, S, Z, L, R, SH, CH, J, L/R/S Blends, and Voiced & Voiceless TH! Each sound target is broken down by initial, medial, and final position of words PLUS by 1, 2, and 3+ syllable words!  Did I mention they are no-prep!?
4. These word searches provide a fun activity for students to do while waiting for a turn, and also make a great take home activity. I love the space provided to write a sentence using three words from the list.
5. If you have ever played connect four, you will love this speech version called dots and boxes. My favorite way to use these is to laminate them and let students use dry erase markers to play so I can use them again and again as a quick, grab-and-go therapy session.

Do you have any familiar games you love to play with your therapy groups? We would love to hear about them in a comment on this post!

Speech, Teach, & Love,

Ana

GUYS… I bought two sets of Halloween themed bowling blocks at Target Dollar Spot (they were $3.00. (???)) and they have allowed for SO many fun therapy sessions. I am always looking to not only spruce up the “sit-at-a-table” sessions, but also to incorporate some activity into the learning. Well, this has done just that. The kids are insanely loving it. I will probably hear, “can we bowl today?” until May, but hey, whatever works, amiright?

Here’s how I transformed these cute blocks into speech, language, and fluency therapy:

 

First, I cut strips of laminated card stock into rectangles (roughly 1″x2″ but honestly, I eyeballed them). I then attached hook and loop fasteners to the backs of those rectangles and to the backs of the bowling blocks. Next, I attached the two parts together and trimmed excess paper  that was showing  from the front as needed.

 

Finally, I used a fine tip dry erase marker to write my target skills on the laminated rectangles. SO SIMPLE! These are easily reusable- just wipe off and write on new targets! I saved a few extra rectangles with the hook and loop on the backs to quickly change out targets while we are working. I’ve used synonyms, antonyms, categories, verbs, adjectives, describing, themed vocabulary, articulation targets, fluency techniques, multiple meaning words, and more with this game; the possibilities are endless. These are also great to target social skills like turn taking and teamwork (setting up the blocks for the other person) .

 

Here’s how I set up the session:

The kids come in and I explain the rules of bowling (if they haven’t played before) and their targeted skill focus for the day. We talk a bit about their skill and then we begin playing. Each child takes an individual turn rolling the (eye)ball down the “lane” (floor) toward the bowling pins. When they knock a pin over, they have to practice their skill with the word on the back of how ever many blocks they knocked down. They move those blocks out of the way and hand them to the next person in line to start setting up their bowling lane a few feet away. The student gets one more turn to try to knock down any remaining blocks and repeat the process. We use the same set of scoring rules for regular bowling (except, obviously, there are only 6 pins).

Look for these adorable sets at your nearest Target Dollar ($3) Spot and try them for yourself! What’s your favorite dollar spot find? Any other ideas for ways to use these in sessions? Let me know in the comments!

Speech, Teach, & Love,

Lacy