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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Moore Relief Effort Bundle
Myself, as well as other SLPs that have products available on the Teacher's Notebook website, are donating products for relief efforts. Click the sidebar image on my blog to learn more about it!
What Does It Do? What Do You Use It For?
Are you a fan of EET (expanding expression tool) by Sara L. Smith? (http://www.expandingexpression.com/). Do you have students working on object-function?! Then this activity pack is for you! Do you notice all of the color blue?!!
In this file:
-Function Sort: Print and laminate the sorting mats. You can cut them apart or keep them as is. Then print and laminate the sorting cards. Students should identify which function best describes each object. Can they determine more than one function? Can they express a more specific function for each object?
-What Has This Function? Board Game: As students roll a dice and land on the different board spaces, they must name an object that has the function listed on that space.
-What’s My Function? BINGO: Print and laminate BINGO boards for each student. Print and laminate the calling cards. As you pick a calling card, students can take turns expressing the function of the object and locating that function on the board game. The first student to get a BINGO is the winner!
-Review Worksheets:
-Students will match objects to their functions.
-For each function they will list as many objects as they can that have that function mentioned
Monday, May 20, 2013
Character Traits Fun!
Are you teaching character traits to social skills groups? Are your students expected to understand character traits and use it to describe characters in texts they read for class and state tests? Then this activity pack is for you!
In this file:
-Sort character traits into “good” and “bad” categories. Graphic organizer provided to have students write down their responses. 2 levels provided for differentiated instruction.
-Common Characters and their Traits: Print and laminate the board with all of the common characters. Have students sort the traits to the characters that are associated best with them. Worksheet is provided to document responses.
-Reading Comprehension Game: Students will pick a card and determine the character trait to best describe the character in the passage read. Once they respond correctly, they can hold onto their card. If they pick the “go to jail” card, they lose a turn! The student with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner!
-Review worksheets: One worksheet will allow students to match the common characters to the character trait that can best describe them. The other worksheet contains passages provided for practice determining character traits based on passages read.
This activity meets the common core standard:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
You can access this activity in my TpT store by clicking HERE!
In this file:
-Sort character traits into “good” and “bad” categories. Graphic organizer provided to have students write down their responses. 2 levels provided for differentiated instruction.
-Common Characters and their Traits: Print and laminate the board with all of the common characters. Have students sort the traits to the characters that are associated best with them. Worksheet is provided to document responses.
-Reading Comprehension Game: Students will pick a card and determine the character trait to best describe the character in the passage read. Once they respond correctly, they can hold onto their card. If they pick the “go to jail” card, they lose a turn! The student with the most cards at the end of the game is the winner!
-Review worksheets: One worksheet will allow students to match the common characters to the character trait that can best describe them. The other worksheet contains passages provided for practice determining character traits based on passages read.
This activity meets the common core standard:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.3.3 Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
You can access this activity in my TpT store by clicking HERE!
Sunday, May 19, 2013
BHSM: Say & Color! Synonym Street! ((Freebie & Giveaway!!))
Time for another Better Hearing & Speech Month freebie & giveaway!!
For this week....Say & Color! Synonym Street!
Students must express synonyms for the words within the pictures in order to color them!
2 worksheets provided!
This will be a fun and motivating way to work on expressing synonyms! You can access this freebie by clicking HERE!!
Now time for a giveaway! I have been posting TONS of activities related to or to use with the Expanding Expression Tool (EET).
How about a giveaway of one of my products?! To win my Expanding Imagination Activity enter in the rafflecopter below!
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For this week....Say & Color! Synonym Street!
Students must express synonyms for the words within the pictures in order to color them!
2 worksheets provided!
This will be a fun and motivating way to work on expressing synonyms! You can access this freebie by clicking HERE!!
Now time for a giveaway! I have been posting TONS of activities related to or to use with the Expanding Expression Tool (EET).
How about a giveaway of one of my products?! To win my Expanding Imagination Activity enter in the rafflecopter below!
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Friday, May 17, 2013
More uses of EET!! Understanding Non-Fiction Texts & Creative Writing!
It seems like many of you are looking for more ways to incorporate EET into your therapy rooms. One way I have used EET with older students is to teach them how to summarize non-fiction texts!
I have found fun and interesting topics on various websites such as Superteacherworksheets.com and ABCteach.com such as biographies or history of inventions/products. Then I provided my students with an EET graphic organizer. We took out markers to help color code according to the EET. As we read, we underlined the information that would answer EET questions. Then we took what we underlined and added it to our graphic organizer. This has helped my students understand key words and to not underline/highlight entire sentences (I HATE THAT!). After we completed all parts we could, my students go the opportunity to infer the "beads" that were not explicitly mentioned in the story (we used pencil for that!). Once our entire graphic organizer was completed, we used the EET to express summaries! They loved it and did so well! Have you tried this?! Which topics have your students found most interesting?!
Another way I have used EET in my therapy room is to expand creativity and imagination in verbal & written expression! Yes, you read correctly! This has been so much fun the last few days now that the weather is getting warmer! I created an entire activity download for you if you would like to incorporate this activity into your therapy rooms!
This is how it worked:
-Use pictures to help students practice using EET to describe.
-Show students a model of your creation and how you used EET
-Let students expand their imaginations and draw/write using the EET model
-Let students share their creations with the group and use the EET strand to help guide them!
Themes included: pirate, princess, robot, alien, and more!!
You can access this activity by visiting my TpT store HERE!
I have found fun and interesting topics on various websites such as Superteacherworksheets.com and ABCteach.com such as biographies or history of inventions/products. Then I provided my students with an EET graphic organizer. We took out markers to help color code according to the EET. As we read, we underlined the information that would answer EET questions. Then we took what we underlined and added it to our graphic organizer. This has helped my students understand key words and to not underline/highlight entire sentences (I HATE THAT!). After we completed all parts we could, my students go the opportunity to infer the "beads" that were not explicitly mentioned in the story (we used pencil for that!). Once our entire graphic organizer was completed, we used the EET to express summaries! They loved it and did so well! Have you tried this?! Which topics have your students found most interesting?!
Another way I have used EET in my therapy room is to expand creativity and imagination in verbal & written expression! Yes, you read correctly! This has been so much fun the last few days now that the weather is getting warmer! I created an entire activity download for you if you would like to incorporate this activity into your therapy rooms!
This is how it worked:
-Use pictures to help students practice using EET to describe.
-Show students a model of your creation and how you used EET
-Let students expand their imaginations and draw/write using the EET model
-Let students share their creations with the group and use the EET strand to help guide them!
Themes included: pirate, princess, robot, alien, and more!!
You can access this activity by visiting my TpT store HERE!
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Language Lab: Spin & Speak – Social Skills ((APP REVIEW!!))
The developers that brought you Speech with Milo (Doonan Speech Therapy)
has created a new social skills app! I was provided with the fortunate opportunity to check it out so I can share it with all of you! Remember, the thoughts and opinions are all mine :)
This app was pretty easy to figure out how to use. By clicking "set up child" you can add all of your students into the app. You can also select their goal (and multiple goals) from the list provided:
Once you have added your students, you can go back to "home" and click" settings to decide what settings you would like for the activity:
You can always revisit the settings page from the activity in case you change your mind! Now it is time to start! Click "play" to start! You can select your students and then the game pieces for each student participating. You can include up to 5 students in one activity!
The game chips incorporate all of the the developers cartoons which is great for Speech with Milo fans! Now it is time to start the board game! Students take turns spinning the spinner and moving their pieces along the board.
Once they land on their spot, they will get a task card prompting them to respond with their goal selected. There are three choices for your to select based on their responses: correct, assisted, and incorrect.
I will give you the warning that there are TONS of "lose a turns" "go back to __" space and "move ahead to __" spots on the board. Although this makes the game interesting, it can make the game last TOO long at times! Just keep that in mind when trying to decide how much time you need for playing with this app.
Once the first student reaches the finish line, they are presented with this page:
You are automatically prompted that you can access data. You can also access data from the main page. You can also email scores for safe keeping!
Things I like about this app:
has created a new social skills app! I was provided with the fortunate opportunity to check it out so I can share it with all of you! Remember, the thoughts and opinions are all mine :)
This app was pretty easy to figure out how to use. By clicking "set up child" you can add all of your students into the app. You can also select their goal (and multiple goals) from the list provided:
Once the first student reaches the finish line, they are presented with this page:
- Motivating board game
- Real life situations elicited
- Multiple students can participate at one time
- Can individualize goals for each student
- Easy to use
- Elicits conversation which is great for social skills groups
- Data collection and progress monitoring
Learn more about this $5.99 app by visiting iTunes by clicking HERE!
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Butterfly EET Sort!
We have been going EET CrAzY in my speech room lately! I am loving it and my students are doing so well with it! I cannot stop pulling out ideas and creating new ones! I know many of you are asking for more activities to practice using EET! Don't know what EET is click here to visit their website and here to see my previous post about it!
I created a fun activity to help students learn how to respond to each of the "beads" on the EET!
Using this activity:
-Print and laminate the butterfly EET sort mat.
-Print and laminate the answer circles.
-Sort the circles into the correct spot on the butterfly to which EET “bead” it would answer for.
-12 objects are provided (different colored circles used to help discriminate between them). See below, there are 8 yellow circles: 1 with the object and 7 that represent the answers for the EET. Students can place those answers on the corresponding spot on the butterfly! This will help students comprehend what is expended of them for each "bead!"
-Then there are extra objects (black outline) provided to practice describing without choices.
-Other activities: Give students all of the descriptions and have them guess the objects! You can use the circles as choices!
-Review descriptions worksheet: Each “bonus fact” or “what else” description is provided, students must write which object they think it is describing. Two versions are provided, one with a word bank and one without!
I created a fun activity to help students learn how to respond to each of the "beads" on the EET!
Using this activity:
-Print and laminate the butterfly EET sort mat.
-Print and laminate the answer circles.
-Sort the circles into the correct spot on the butterfly to which EET “bead” it would answer for.
-12 objects are provided (different colored circles used to help discriminate between them). See below, there are 8 yellow circles: 1 with the object and 7 that represent the answers for the EET. Students can place those answers on the corresponding spot on the butterfly! This will help students comprehend what is expended of them for each "bead!"
-Then there are extra objects (black outline) provided to practice describing without choices.
-Other activities: Give students all of the descriptions and have them guess the objects! You can use the circles as choices!
-Review descriptions worksheet: Each “bonus fact” or “what else” description is provided, students must write which object they think it is describing. Two versions are provided, one with a word bank and one without!
You can access this activity in my TpT store by clicking HERE!
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