Expanding Vocabulary

Here are a few activities to strengthen your child's vocabulary.

Function of Objects

Vocabulary and Labeling

Analogies

Final Consonant Deletion (leaving sounds off of the ends of words)

This is a great resource to encourage producing the final sound in a word. Each page has the beginning of a word and four pictures that share that beginning, but differ in their endings. For example, all of the words may start with, "Ba," but they end with different sounds (ie: bag, badge). When first introducing this, tell each word to your child. Then ask the child to point to the object you have mentioned. Ask the child to state the name of the object. If the child omits the ending sound, point to the middle picture say, "This is the word you said. You left off the ending sound."


Final Consonant Deletion

Grammar Practice

The following activities can be used to practice grammar AND speech sounds. Once you have chosen the correct verb, read the sentence aloud using correct speech sounds! This will improve your speech production and grammar. Good Luck!

Was or Were?


Irregular Verb Practice



Is or Are?

Practicing speech sounds in conversation

This activity is fun and promotes using correct speech sounds in conversation. Have someone ask you these fun questions. Make a tally mark each time you say your speech sound. Circle the tally marks when you incorrectly pronounce your speech sound! Good Luck.

Conversation Starters

E-Learning for Friday, February 20th

I hope all of you are staying warm! I have included a few activities in this post that can be completed for your e-learning day. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at bhursh@eastnoble.net. Please either email your work to me or return it at your next speech session.


If we are cancelled on Friday, February 20^th or Monday, February 23^rd and you normally have speech on Fridays or Mondays, please spend 20 minutes on any of the activities posted in the blog or the activities posted below. Either return this paper with a caregiver’s signature or email me a video of yourself completing this task.

 

1.       Draw a picture and tell someone about it using your good speech sounds.

2.       Email me a video of you pretending to order a pizza using your good speech sounds.

3.       Interview a friend or family member and use your good speech sounds when you’re asking questions.

4.       Play hide and seek with a friend or family member using an object with your speech sound in it. Have someone hide the object and ask about the location of the object while you’re searching for it (example: Is the fork under the table).

5.       Look at old pictures or pictures in a magazine or book with a friend or family member and talk about your memories using good speech sounds.  Tell about what everyone’s faces are doing (are they happy?) and where you were in the picture.

TIPS FOR ENCOURAGING LANGUAGE IN YOUNG KIDS

This is an awesome website that has suggestions on how to encourage language in your child!

Language Suggestions

Preschool Language Learning

The following link provides 22 different activities to do with your child. During the activity, you can utilize the suggestions to expand your children's language abilities! You can also practice speech sounds with your child during these activities by emphasizing their targeted speech sounds and seeing if they can repeat you!

Fun Recipes for Language Learning

This link is another way to practice speech and language with your child! It provides the story and has suggestions for reading the story to your child.

Brown Bear Brown Bear

Mad Lib Fun

Mad libs are a fun way to practice grammar, as well as, speech sounds. Here are some links to different mad libs. Complete a mad lib with a friend or family member. When you work on a mad lib, one person asks the other person to name something in a category. At the end, you can read the mad lib and it will sound silly!

Valentine Mad Lib

Winter Mad Lib

Here is a link to a website that has mad lib games:

Mad Lib Website

Grammar Practice

All of these activities will help strengthen your grammar skills!


Should I use, "Have" or, "Has?"

Regular Past Tense Verb Practice

Should I use, "Do" or, "Does?"

The links below are for pronoun practice. When we are talking about a boy, we use, "He." When we are referring to a girl, we use, "she." When we are talking about more than one person, we use, "They." When we are talking about a thing, we use, "It."

Who is the sentence talking about?

 Use these pictures to create your own sentences!

Pronoun Picture Practice

Monday 1/26 E-Learning Day

If we are cancelled on Monday, January 26th and you normally have speech on Mondays, please spend 20 minutes on any of the activities posted in the blog or one of the activities posted below.

Articulation Station:

You should know which speech sounds you've been working on! The following activities will be great practice:

1. Find 10 objects around your house that have your speech sound in them. Write the name for each object on a piece of paper. Create five sentences that have these words in them. Email a video of yourself saying these sentences. If you don't have internet, bring the paper to school with you and give it to your speech teacher. Make sure to use your best speech sounds!

2. Play a game with a friend or family member. Make a tally mark for each time you use a word with your speech sound in it. Write ten of these words down. Email me a video of yourself saying these words after the game OR return your paper. Make sure to include what game you played and who you played it with.

3. Email your speech teacher a video of yourself saying what you did during the snow day. Raise your hand each time you say a word with your sound in it. If you don't have internet, write a few sentences about what you did during your snow day. Make sure to underline the words that have your speech sounds in them.

4. Create a list of 25 words with your speech sound in them. Practice the word list. Email your speech teacher a video of yourself practicing the word list or return the word list to your speech teacher.

Learning Colors and Basic Sounds

Here are two activities. The first is a way to work on beginning speech sounds with your child when reading a book. The second is an approach to teaching colors. This approach can be used to teach vocabulary, as well.

Promoting Basic Speech Sounds

Learning Colors

Following Directions

Following directions can be a tough task! Here are activities for students to practice:

Follow directions with pictures 

Follow these silly directions 

Follow directions with objects 


When your teacher gives directions and you're confused, ask questions! There are probably more students that have the same question.

 

Let's Tell a Story!

Here are some ideas for practicing sequencing (First...Then) at home: 

It's always a great idea to use daily actions as an example for sequencing. We can practice ordering by discussing the steps we take to brush our teeth or wash our hands! 

Get a calendar and write something that happened yesterday, today, and that will happen tomorrow. This is also a great way to work on grammar especially verb tenses.

Create a, "how to" picture page. Check out the example below...

"How to" example 

We drew a picture for each step involved when coloring a picture. We talked about what we would need to do first, second, third, and lastly.

Here are some worksheets: 

How many steps? 

Order the steps





 

Name that Category!

You can use these activities to practice your speech sound/s by reading the words aloud or you can practice categorization.

Find 10 pictures (magazines, books, newspapers, or the internet). Name the category for each item. For example, a picture of a banana would belong in the fruit category. 

Click on the following links for more activities! 

Name the Category 

Add to this group 

Alphabet Categories 

What belongs in this group? 

Articulation Station

Here are a few practice suggestions for elementary students that are working on speech sounds:


Create a list of words that have your sound in them. Circle your speech sound in the word. Practice saying each word 5 times. 

Find pictures around your house (books, magazines, internet) that have your speech sound in them. Create sentences using these pictures! 

Read a short story. Raise your hand when you say a word with your speech sound in it. 

Play, "I Spy" with a friend and see how many objects/places have your speech sound in them! 

 Watch a movie and write ten words that have your speech sound in them and practice saying them!

Your speech sounds are all around you! Create your own way to practice your sound/s and share them with your speech teacher!

Let's Practice!

Hello Speech/Language students!

This blog will have practice suggestions/ideas for you to use at home. You can search through the posts and find activities to practice your speech/language goals! If you have any questions, please contact me at bhursh@eastnoble.net .

Thanks,
Miss Hursh