1 – Story Champs Intervention

I utilize Story Champs with so many of my students.  I wrote a review of it last year as well that you can view here.  Story Champs is flexible and I’ve seen really good growth from utilizing it.  In my mixed language/articulation groups, I’m able to target story grammar, vocabulary, articulation, and more with this tool.  There is also a Spanish Bilingual version available now.

Cost: $298.00

2 – iPad/Apps

I’ll just get this out of the way here.  I do utilize my iPad and apps frequently as therapy tools.  My iPad is much easier to take around to my quick artic sessions, screenings, etc. than a pile of artic cards or paper screeners.  I utilize it in various ways as well, using apps that aren’t solely for therapy as well.  I will say that we don’t ALWAYS use the iPad and I never let my students just “play” on it (unless they’ve earned free time after an assessment).  I typically sit next to them when we use it and I always hold it and have control in the session.  There are many great apps out there that can unleash your creativity as a clinician and apply speech/language skills in a different way.  I would recommend attending the upcoming XceptionalED Special Apps Update conference if you are interested in learning more.

Cost: iPad $329-1149  Apps: Vary $0-90

3 – Books

We use books constantly in therapy.  They are wonderful for mixed groups, themes, etc.  I typically find my books at thrift stores because they are so affordable there.  Occasionally I splurge on new literature.  There are so many great books that I won’t be naming them.  However – here are a few great lists by some of my favorite bloggers: Crazy Speech World; Speechy Musings Book Lists by Speech Sound and Books for Teaching Story Grammar in Speech Therapy; The Speech Space; etc.

Cost: $0.50-$20

4 – Super Duper

Honestly, for the most part I have moved away from the games and card decks from companies like Super Duper.  However, there are a few products that are flexible enough to be used for many goals and groups.  These are the products I pull on occasion to target 4-5 different goals in a session: “WH” Chipper Chat; Pirate Talk, What Do You Say…What Do You Do… At School?; The Question Challenge Card Game; Turtle Talk Fluency and Language Game

Cost: $55-70

5 – Board Games

We don’t play a lot of games but when we do, they address goals!  Now, I preface this by saying that most of these will need some adaptations made to make it work in therapy.  But that’s why we do the therapy and the material doesn’t do it.  Some of my favorites include Hedbanz, Blurt, 5 Second Rule Jr, Riddle Moo This, and others.  Again, I hunt thrift stores for these as I would much rather spend $3 on a gently used game than $15 on a new one.

Cost: $12-20

6 – Teachers Pay Teachers

I would be lying if I didn’t say that I utilize many wonderful materials from TpT.  Not everything on TpT is created equal and I highly suggest reading information and reviews carefully.  Also look for any information about the use of the product from the seller or others.  Some of my go-to resources include Editable SLP Assessment Templates; Cycles for Phonology Toolkit; Grab N’ Go “WH” Questions; Nyms-O; Nonfiction Texts Targeting Articulation and Language

Cost: $3-30

7 – Your School Campus

There is no reason to keep yourself inside the therapy room at all times.  Get out of there!  Within your school and on your campus are great opportunities for language and articulation.  We have done attribute searches (find something red, find something square), sound walks (find your articulation sound), and more.  Some of our favorite places to visit are bulletin boards, the playground, and my administrators (we like to ask them questions or tell them stories using our good articulation for example).  A big part of our job is moving the skills we work on from isolation into the general education environment.  These structured therapy times outside of the speech room can do just this.

Cost: Free

8 – Maps

A lot of my students have not been outside of the city they are growing up in.  They may travel to a nearby state or to Mexico to visit family occasionally.  We like to use maps – the bigger, the better – in my speech room.  We can use these to plan a road trip and read about/discuss attractions along the way.  We can hunt for cities that have their speech sound in the name.  We can talk about what we see around a place on the map (river, highway, city, park, etc.).  Maps are very interesting to kids in my experience.  They also love to use google maps to explore place they haven’t been or are just interested in.  We’ve used google maps to look at the house I grew up in – they LOVED that!  You can often get maps for free from local tourism shops, services like AAA, or from relatives who don’t want that atlas any longer.

Cost: Free

9 – Sensory Materials

I love integrating sensory bins and materials with my “everyday” speech materials.  We love using kinetic sand, fake snow, water beads, etc. to create a sensory component of our sessions.  I will often hide thematic/sound-based dinky doodads and other tiny items in sand and excavate them.  We may close our eyes and describe what we feel using our description details.  We might just put some laminated TpT cards or other stimuli in the sensory item and work on those.  Regardless of the activity, my students love working with sensory materials.

Cost: Free – $10

10 – Box of Highly-Preferred toys/items

If you work with students using PECS or other AAC devices/systems, having many highly-preferred items at your fingertips can be the key to unlocking their language skills.  I often keep several varieties of wind-up toys, light-up toys, poppers, sensory items, etc. nearby.  This allows me to quickly have students requesting with attributes and working on describing their items.  This can also help in motivating younger students to complete tasks and earn a preferred item.  I recommend looking in the dollar sections, holiday clearance, thrift stores, and even fast food meal toys.  Pro tip: keep these out of reach/sight if you aren’t using them or you may have a distracted and upset child on your hands.

Cost: Free – $4 each

Therapy is not all about the material you use.  It’s important to remember that the material is not the therapy, YOU provide the therapy and may utilize a material/tool in doing so.  What are some of your go-to therapy materials… share below!

The holidays are over and we’re still in the early days of winter – sigh.  I’m sure that many of you are shivering as you read this post.  So… what are some books to use in therapy that are NOT holiday books?  What can we pull out of our Mary Poppins bag and use with our clients until the Earth tilts back towards the sun and we can start planning spring therapy?

Here are 7 of my favorites:

Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats

This is easily one of my top books to use.  We typically use it in conjunction with snow-themed sensory bins, creating instant fake snow, or other activities. Snowy Day can be used for inferencing (e.g. What did he find sticking out of the snow to make a third track?  What will happen when he hits the snow with his stick? Where did the snowball go?), narrative retell, vocabulary (slowly, firm, heaping, deep, drag), and more.  It’s a classic and easily adaptable for most elementary client ages.

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow by Lucille Colandro

Of course I have to mention a “There Was an Old Lady” (when will she ever learn and does she have pica?!?) in this list.  Aside from some of the snow-based activities listed above, we use this book to work on vocabulary, answering “why” and other wh- questions, and pairs well with various TpT activities like this one from Jenn Alcorn of Crazy Speech World.

The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino with Jon Nelson, Ph.D.

If you have upper elementary clients or clients in middle/high school, take a look at this book.  It is more nonfiction with a little flair with great vocabulary and is a good way to work on comprehension of science texts in the therapy setting.  I like to use it as a transition from more “young” fiction texts to the textbooks that my students are learning from.  It’s  a nice bridge between the two.  This book can be read in chunks and activities planned for each area of the book.  Also, there is a “How To Catch Your Own Snow Crystals” experiment which wouldn’t work well for me in Phoenix but if you’re allowed to go outside with your clients in colder climates, could be great for you as a follow-through activity.

Hibernation Station by Michelle Meadows

Hibernation is a big winter-related topic for many of our clients in their classrooms.  Here is a nice and slightly different book that looks more into the topic of hibernation.  I love that the animals are wearing pajamas and the cute illustrations.  There are problems to solve within the book and a lot of good “sound” words and animal vocabulary.

A Loud Winter’s Nap by Katy Hudson

I will confess… my mom gifted this book to our speech/language room this year, it wasn’t my find.  The illustrations alone are hilarious and useful for therapy.  I love the “sound” and vocabulary words included, the emotions discussed, figuring out just why “tortoises don’t like winter”, and the overall message of this fun little book.  A quick read and easy to pair with animal, snow, or winter activities.

Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr/Eric Carle

Of course I have to mention this gem.  If you work with younger clients, including pre-K and even EI, this book is truly wonderful.  It is even better if you’ve used Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See? with the client before.  There are oodles and oodles of TpT and other materials to pair with this book – no need to re-invent the wheel.

Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson

The wonderful SLP that I have the privilege of sharing a caseload with this year introduced me to Bear Snores On. This book pairs wonderful illustrations with descriptive vocabulary and rhyming words that make this book a sing-song read.  I love to pair this book with a book companion from Shannon Werbeckes of Speechy Musings and mix and match the skills depending on my groups.

There are, of course, many other wonderful winter books to use in therapy, please share your favorites below!  I can’t say how much the use of literature has improved my therapy provision and I highly recommend the use of books in therapy.  Happy winter and have a wonderful 2018!

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Easy speech/language decoration activities:

My students LOVE to decorate my room for the seasons.  I have found a very easy way to make this a speech/language activity.  I simply find a line-art image(s) to print out large enough (1/2-full sheet) to be written on and decorated.  For my language groups we encorporate a book or activity into the decorating.  We may write vocab words, answers, etc. onto the graphics.  For articulation we write season-themed words onto the decorations and practice them before decorating.  The decorating is only 3-5 minutes of the session because we use paint daubers to decorate.

When completed, I cut them out an put them up on my cabinet.  They love this activity and will come in to find their decoration in future sessions – I may review the items on the decoration, have them say their words again, etc.  Easy!

Finger Lights:

We all know that card decks get stale very quickly.  We spice them up with these cheap finger lights from the party favor section of Target.  (You can find them elsewhere too)  I give each student one light and they use them to point to things on the card/book, point to their answer, etc.

I have really seen an increase in participation from students during their turn as well as during other students’ turns.  They don’t need another motivator during the session when these beauts are involved.

Spinners and Tallies:

Never underestimate the simplicity of tally points.  I simply printed off this chart for my groups of students and place it into a dry erase sleeve.  After their turn, they get to spin (eliminates the pesky dice roll which takes too long) and add the points to their total.  We often have a 2-minute drill at the end where we have the first person to accurately answer getting a point and go until the session is over.  Who knew that it just takes tallies?

Friendly Competition:

In my therapy room we use several apps and articulation activities in small groups or quick individual sessions.  I selected a few of those to display record-holders on our board.  We utilize Listen Close & Missing Letter apps from Erik X. Raj, Cup Stack Challenge (how many cups they can stack from our Articulation Towers), and a 5-minute challenge.  During the 5-minute challenge a student says their words independently and we count how many correct productions are made in 5 minutes.  They are very motivated to get their names onto the board and keep them there.  And by doing this, they are motivated to say as many accurate productions of their words in short sessions!  Win-Win!

Dauber Sheets:

There are a TON of these sheets available on TpT.  General reinforcers, 100 challenge pages, etc. are great for keeping students focused and motivated.  On articulation sheets I either have them say their words as they dot them or I have them keep track of accuracy with two colors of daubers for correct and incorrect responses.  They love seeing how many they can finish in a session and when they are finished I let them hang them up for a week.

(Pictured activity from Busy Bee Speech found here)

Erasers:

Have you seen those cheap $1 packs of erasers at Target?  Grab a few packs for therapy.  We use them in many ways but one that we use a lot is as a general reinforcer.  Simply have students spin/roll after a turn and collect that many erasers as “points”.  I suggest a small bowl or container to put them in or they will likely be played with by students.  Other uses include coverings for 100 challenges if you don’t want to paint dot them, bingo chips, etc.  These can also be found on sites like Oriental Trading and Amazon.  EASY!

Motivating doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive.  It is not necessary to play games as a reinforcer.  Something simple like the motivators above will be easy to implement and will increase the motivation of your students.

HOW DO YOU MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS?

I’m an SLP and I enjoy long walks… down the hallway?

Most SLPs have a packed schedule.  Trying to organize therapy minutes for 60+ students across multiple grade levels and goals into about 30-35 hours per week is extremely difficult.  I’m not sure about you, but I end up with sessions back-to-back nearly all day.

Each year I’m surprised with how long it takes me to walk to and from my students’ classrooms.  This year I’m on a very spacious campus.  For example, if I have 1st grade students scheduled at 9:00, I am leaving my office with my previous group at 8:58.  It takes a few minutes for me to gather all of them from their classrooms and organize them.  It’s 9:02 when we leave their pod area.  We begin walking, as briskly as their 1st grade legs will move, and arrive at my room at 9:05.  By the time they are sitting and calm and I begin our activity or lesson, it can be nearly 9:10.  At 9:28 we must depart to return to their rooms.  We don’t walk silently, I’m trying to engage them in conversations that further target their therapy goals but it is difficult to do without bringing along materials.  I feel like I’m missing out on so many minutes of potential therapy each day.

I know that part of the solution is students moving about campus and arriving to my room independently.  While my older students should be able to come to me on their own, there are those beginning weeks of learning schedules as well as those students who demonstrate “difficulty” with getting from their classroom to me.  And eventually I’d like to be able to send my Kindergarteners and 1st graders back on their own but we’ll likely be starting our sessions together for a majority of the year.

To take advantage of these minutes of transition, I’ve developed these Walk ‘n Talk cards to keep on hand.  I have included a majority of the targets my students work on in 16 prompt cards (printed 2-sided) that I can use as we walk across campus.  I can have students practice articulation for 3 more minutes, warm up with some reminders and questions, practice fluency carry-over or conversation skills, etc.  These cards are available here!

I have really enjoyed having prompts on-hand during our transitions and it has also been something that I can utilize for quick articulation and language RtI and screenings, provide to teachers for RtI and carryover in the classroom, and send home for parents.

I would love to hear from you on this topic.  Are transition times something you struggle with as well?  How do you take advantage of those minutes?

Have a great week!

Here are the products that each blogger is offering and links to their store and product:

Sublime Speech: Editable SLP Assessment Templates

Activity Tailor: Articulation and Language Therapy Joke Books: I’m Joking!

Allison’s Speech Peeps: Articulation Context Clue Cards Using Tier 2 Vocabulary

Busy Bee Speech: Interactive Articulation Binder for Speech Therapy

Consonantly Speaking: Playdough Mats for Articulation: S&Z Edition

Crazy Speech World: American Inventors Nonfiction Texts for Comprehension, Grammar & Vocabulary!

The Dabbling Speechie: NO PREP Build a Sentence Activities

Home Sweet Speech Room: Speech Farkle

Kristin Minden: Spring Speech Homework Bundle

Let’s Talk Speech Therapy: AAC and You–Handouts for Classroom Teachers

Let’s Talk with WhitneySLP: Spring-Related Sequences

Live Love Speech: Grab n’ Go Social Skills

Mrs.T SLP: Winning & Losing Games: Social Story Mini Books

Ms.Jocelyn Speech: Social Scripts: Tone of Voice

Peachie Speechie: Shamrock Listening Comprehension Sentences

Rock Chalk Speech Talk: “Woof!” A Dog-Themed Speech and Language Unit

Simply Speech: No Prep St. Patrick’s Day Articulation Homework

Speech Bubble SLP: Language Trifolds

 Speechy Musings: Speech and Language Therapy Centers for Articulation

Speech Time Fun: St. Patrick’s Day Yes No Questions

Speech to the Core: Everything You Need! Spring

Super Power Speech: Spring Up with Language (Level 2)

Queen’s Speech: The Voice Monsters {Voice Therapy Techniques}

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Here we go!  One of my favorite times of the year… A TpT Sale Party!  “Teachers are Heroes” sale starts this week and we’re linking up with our cart favorites just for you!

I have finally started to feel my product-producing MoJo coming back and have begun to make a new series of products for Articulation.  The first in this series is available now and will be a great price during the sale!  Articulation Strips – /r/ are a totable articulation drill activity for readers! Great the traveling SLP, RtI/push-in services, independent practice, homework, and more!  There are over 180 articulation strips in this pack!  More sounds will be added soon!

I have also Bundled my Animal Puzzles!  These interactive puzzles are perfect for EI/Pre-K Speech therapy, classrooms, and more. Endless targets including requesting, body parts, following directions, describing, animal noises, free play, and more.

Now for my over-flowing cart!  Here are 5 of my picks for the upcoming sale!

Interactive Vocabulary Books: Color Books from Speech Room News

Leveled Grammar Intervention from Allison’s Speech Peeps

Mad Scientists Inferences from Live Love Speech.

Apraxia – Interactive Apraxia Activities Value Bundle From Teaching Talking

No Prep Articulation by The Speech Bubble SLP

Enjoy the sale!  Share below what you will be purchasing!  And check out more posts on the Linky Home for more ideas of great products to purchase!

]]> http://sublimespeech.com/2015/02/whats-in-your-cart-hero-sale-edition-linky-party.html/feed 1 http://sublimespeech.com/2014/12/appy-new-year-yapp-guru-expert-linky.html http://sublimespeech.com/2014/12/appy-new-year-yapp-guru-expert-linky.html#comments Mon, 22 Dec 2014 01:57:07 +0000 http://sublimespeech.com/?p=2082 As 2014 comes to an end, Yapp Guru is looking at which apps are the Top Ten apps that the App Experts loved in 2014.  My iPad has had such a crazy 2014!  I went from working in 2 elementary schools with K-5 and children with severe Autism (including many nonverbal students) to working within the Early Intervention system with clients 0-4 on my caseload.  However, I want to give you my Top 10 from the entire year… these are apps that stay on my iPad instead of floating in the cloud and are used most frequently.  Some of them made their debut in 2014 but others have been around for a bit.  Regardless, these are the apps I recommend to you!

(In no particular order of course!

Articulation Test Station – $49.99

I love using this app for RtI screener, speech samples during evaluations, and progress monitoring.  It is incredibly easy to use and is always my go-to for a quick paperless evaluation/screener!  Watch for sales but it’s worth the $50, and I don’t say that easily!

Peekaboo Barn – $1.99

This is one of my favorite apps for preschool clients.  We utilize it to work on following directions, identifying animals, and labeling.  We can also talk about the animal attributes, what’s in the barn, and more.

Avokiddo Emotions – $2.99

I love to use Avokiddo emotions with a wide range of clients.  We use this with social goals to identify emotions, talk about why the character feels that way, etc.  We also use this to work on attributes, actions, describing, requesting, and so much more.  It’s a well-made and versatile app!

ArtikPix Level Plus – #29.99

This is a very versatile and clean app for articulation therapy.  I love the way it is set up and remembers settings and data between sessions.  If you work with a lot of articulation clients and/or RtI for Articulation, this app is a great investment!

aacorn – $189.99

AAC is an ever-changing area.  This app is great for some students and a great way to introduce AAC to younger children.  It learns the student and can be customized completely.  I also love that they offer free version to SLPs for therapy and trials.  Plus, of all AAC options, this is one of the best made and affordable options.  I have used this with nonverbal elementary students as well as nonverbal children under 3.  With some training, it can be utilized by most students easily.

Soundable – FREE

Sometimes you have to kick back and relax with a nerdy little SLP game.  Soundable is a great refresher for IPA and fun SLPs!  Think of it as Scrabble with IPA!  Enjoy!

Toca Kitchen Monsters – FREE

This is a great free app from Toca Boca.  As a general reinforcer, it is goal.  However, if you dig deeper you’ll find that you can do following directions (which food to pick, how to cook it, etc.), talk about attributes, vocabulary, and much more!

I Dare You Articulation – $4.99

This app has been a favorite of mine since it’s arrival in the app store.  My older articulation students love it!  We even were able to go around our school with the app and “dare” some teachers and the principal to do the dares by utilizing good speech sounds.  It was so motivating and the staff loved it!  Erik X. Raj has so many motivating articulation apps!

Real Vocabulary Pro – $29.99

I really enjoy how this app targets vocabulary learning in students K-5.  You can work on antonyms, synonyms, definitions, multiple meanings, and idioms within this app.  It also keeps data for you!  There are reinforcer games as well which is helpful for older clients!

Sentence Ninja – $19.99

Sentence ninja is a great way for students to work on grammar and syntax.  It can also be used for language and articulation carry-over.  It’s a very motivating theme for students and they enjoy working on this app during sessions.  It has built-in data tracking also.

There are so many incredible apps being added to the marketplace each day.  These 10 were my favorites of 2014 and I can’t wait to see what 2015 will bring!  I hope you’ll visit the other blogs in this linky to see which apps they loved this year!

Appy New Year!!!

]]> http://sublimespeech.com/2014/12/appy-new-year-yapp-guru-expert-linky.html/feed 3 http://sublimespeech.com/2014/09/back-to-school-buys-little-bee-speech.html http://sublimespeech.com/2014/09/back-to-school-buys-little-bee-speech.html#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:00:30 +0000 http://sublimespeech.com/?p=1833 Sublime Speech’s Back to School Buys continues today with Little Bee Speech’s Articulation Test Center!

I’m a huge advocate of making certain things easier about speech and language therapy.  One thing that has always driven me crazy is toting around oodles of paper copies of articulation screeners.  Luckily Little Bee Speech (and a few other app companies) has delivered the goods with their articulation test/screener.

Choose between Screener and Full Test, adjust settings, view information/tutorials, and see results from the start page.

 Little Bee’s Articulation Test Center offers a wide range of goodies in their comprehensive app.  It’s incredibly complete and easy to use.  If you’d like to learn more about the details of the Screener or Full Test, I suggest you take a few moments to view the video tutorials below.  This will help you to decide if this is the right tool for your iTherapy box!

Screener: Choose appropriate age/phonemes to screen, mark errors in as much detail as you’d like, record notes, etc!

In the elementary school that I last worked in, I utilized the screener portion of this app to screen RtI students.  I loved the mobility and flexibility of this app.  Plus, this screener is more motivating than the screener forms and easy to use with non-readers.  I could simply mark if a child made an error or be very specific with the type of error or substitution that was made.  I also loved the notes section where I could jot down things that happened or were noted during screening.  You all have incredible memories but we can all use a little reminder sometimes!  The notes section is perfect for this and is available throughout testing for use.

Full Test: Much like the screener – choose positions and if a sample is needed. Progress through stimulus cards.

I love how clear the stimulus photos are.  They are also great for vocabulary during testing!  You can even turn the photo to face the child with one easy click.  Perfect for sitting across from students during testing without having to turn the ipad for them and trying to mark the test upside down!

Speech Sample: These colorful scenes record the entire conversation that you have with the client. It is interactive and you can click on objects/animals throughout for prompts.

 The Full Test is also great for gathering even more information.  While this is not yet standardized, it is a great tool for progress monitoring, gathering detailed speech samples, and more.  I have also used this as a more detailed screener for RtI students.  While I could not include the results from the prompts into formal SpEd testing, I often used the speech sample portion of this test as an addition to the GFTA, etc.

Results are comprehensive and easy to utilize in reports to teachers, parents, and for your own files.

 I love the easy to use results section. Ready-made results are easy to tweak for your own reports for parents, teachers, and for student files.  I also love that recommendations for phonemes to address are given.  This makes transitioning over to Articulation Station a breeze. (yes, we used that great app too!)

Overall, this app is a must-have for SLPs using an iPad for therapy.  No, it isn’t standardized yet and some may not be able to utilize it for formal testing purposes.  However, for progress monitoring, screenings, and RtI, this app is extremely valuable!  I look forward to utilizing it with my Pre-K and EI students as well.

 Little Bee is having an incredible sale on this app right now – Take advantage of 50% off!

Only $24.99!

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I’m sure that if you work with Elementary and even some Secondary students you have had the battle of needing to work on the dreaded /r/ or /s and z/ with a student who is older and difficult to motivate.  These were the students that Kimberly developed this series for.  I had the opportunity to look over and use the /s/ and /z/ book for this review.  I’m a little sad that I’ve moved out of the schools because this was such a hit!  (particularly with my boys!)  You can even follow simple instructions located within the book to receive a PDF copy of the book to make printing easy and utilize on the iPad if that’s how you roll!

Here is an example of how many different positions the phonemes are targeted in.  This really helps increase the accuracy of your data collection by targeting specific positions for the sounds.

In Tic Tac Toe you have the option to utilize pictures or words (as shown above).  There are suggestions for eliciting carrier phrases/sentences as well.  I love how easy this is to copy and have ready for students!  They always love beating their SLP!

Sink-a-Ship is like a typical “Battleship” type game.  A really fun activity in therapy.  Definitely for the older students that are readers.

Stop-Gate is one of my all-time favorites.  It looks like “squares” and that is one way to utilize the game.  However, the instructions show a different way to play.  Each player has an assigned direction (horizontal/vertical) and connects 2 dots on their turn and says the word that is crossed off during this.  If a dot has been used, it can’t be used again.  The last person to be able to move is the winner!  My students adored this game!

Triangles is another connecting dots game. When a triangle is completed, the child/adult puts their initial into the triangle to claim it.  The most triangles wins the game.

Finally, one of the absolute best parts of this book are these Hall Passes.  This can be used during hallway time between classroom and therapy room.  It could also be used as a brag tag, carry-over in class, or any other creative way that you can think of!

Overall, this comprehensive book (and the /r/ version as well, I’m sure!) are an incredible addition to any speech session this year.  If you have older and more difficult to motivate students (particularly boys) this will be an instant hit!

You can easily purchase this activity from Activity Tailor’s TpT Store: /s/ & /z/ or /r/ books!  It can also be purchased at Say it Right.

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Kim has even lowered the price of these great materials by $10 this week for Sublime Speech’s followers!  WooHoo!

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