You will need to cut out the “ingredients” and pizza doughs.  Spending a little extra time cutting out the ingredients will make for a more realistic looking pizza!  Each student receives a pizza dough and begins to assemble it, ingredient by ingredient, until they have each ingredient on their pizza.  This led to many “Italian”-ish accents from the kids.

The included targets in this 48 page, 160+ card set are:

This activity is great for those students that are in the beginning stages of this skill and require picture references to be successful.  It is also a great visual to have on hand if you are still in the instructional phase.

This is one of my favorite parts of this activity.  It’s GREAT for my kiddos working on Pragmatic Language skills and problem solving.  The topics covered are realistic and some are new to students which requires even more inferencing.

Another great one for Pragmatics, expressive language, etc.  For those students working on “feelings” and point of view this is a great portion.

This activity has many situations that should not occur and provides great practice for social language. It is great for reasoning, expressive language, and more.

This is a great beginner task.  The visuals included really help lower students to answer the “wh” questions by referring to the pictures.  I like to expand the activity to asking a similar question about the picture that was not chosen (e.g. the above picture “The racquet does have strings.  What does the taxi have?”

The best part of this activity is that there are multiple answers for most, if not every, card.  To expand, I ask the student to tell me two things that could be answers to each question.

Another great beginner task for those working on Social Language skills!  It’s also good for taking the point of view of others by saying “How would that person feel if you said _____” by using the wrong option.

We had a great time making pizzas:

I loved the variety of targets and the flexibility of the activities.  Most of them were easily expanded upon.

I was able to use this activity for SEVERAL groups and all ages of elementary students.  Even my 4th graders had a great time making “pizza pizza”.

Overall, this activity is a great addition to any speech room.  You will be able to target several different skills with this material.  The pizza reinforcers alone can be used with any other activity/task!  Head over to the item on TeachersPayTeachers to find out more and purchase for $7.00.

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Amy reviewed my Reacting Robots activity as part of our Tangled Tuesday.  Check it out on her blog, grab Reacting Robots in my TpT store and…. grab this FREE Reacting Robots Matching Game as a thank you for checking out this post!  ENJOY!

Thanks to Amy for getting TANGLED with Sublime Speech today!  Such a blast!  

Speaking of “Super” … I have had the great opportunity to try out Live Love Speech’s Articulation and Attributes Superheros for /th/ and /s/ this week (she also offers a /r/ set that I do not have yet).  

It has quickly become the favorite activity of my lower elementary students.

In this game, students draw an articulation card from a pile (48-96 cards included in the sets) as well as a shield card that has a number on it.  They then name the specified number of attributes for their artic word according to the number on the card they chose.  You can also choose to include the “wild” cards which include extra turns and lost cards. You can challenge students by having them formulate sentences using the targeted word and at least one of the attributes they named.

I found this activity to be excellent for my younger elementary students.  We busted it out with some of my 2nd grade /th/ and /s/ students.  The first time we used it, we stayed specific to one sound.  The second time… we got all sorts of crazy and MIXED the decks.  Now, if you have any kids that have difficulties with BOTH /s/ and /th/ you know that carry-over is very hard for them because they get the two sounds confused after therapy.  So, mixing the two decks provides amazing carry-over practice.  

Here are some shots of my speech room during /th/ deck day:

We loved having the handy “Attributes” cards to remind us of what attributes we could list.

 Listing attributes is great language therapy, even for speech-only students!

Adorable graphics and a plethora of expansions and challenges possible.

* Easy to use activities with optional expansions.

*Familiar target words.

*Perfect for carry-over because students will use the target word multiple times while describing attributes.

*Allows language therapy during articulation therapy for students qualifying for both services… or for students that did not qualify for language but may need some additional language support.

* Wild cards add a competitive aspect to the game that we loved.

*Adorable and exciting clip art.

Go Fish or Matching – Trying to match the clipart characters in a game of go fish or a matching game.

ANY board game with spinner or dice – Take a card and roll the dice/spin the spinner for your turn.  State that number of attributes from the spin/die and continue play.

The only thing I’d love to have with this would be wild cards that match the size of the shield # cards so they can be mixed into the deck or spread out on the table for game play.  However the included wild cards can be cut down to this size if you’d like to have that option.

My kids all LOVED this activity and request it specifically   I found that all students enjoyed it but that my K-2nd graders were the most impressed by it!  One student even said, “Superheros make everything more super-er”.  Now, if that isn’t a positive review, I don’t know what is!