WH Question Fall Games

Do you have those students you work with week after week trying to target "wh" questions? I do! I feel like I am always trying to find ways to work on "wh" questions other than through reading, because that is what I do with most of my students. Don't get me wrong, literacy-based interventions are AWESOME and I'm all about using appropriate stories to target "wh" questions, but sometimes my severe-profound students need a game to spice up our therapy sessions. Hence, my WH Fall Fun Pack! :) You can grab it on my TPT store here. The first thing I love about this fall fun activity are the "wh" question mats you can place in front of the students to ask questions about. If you're working with one or more students, you can change this activity to meet your specific student needs. 

This pack also includes a simple "wh" question apple picking activity in which students must pick an apple, answer a simple who, what, where, when, or why questions, and collect them in their basket. There are also apples with worms that they can pick that make them take an apple out of their basket. My students LOVE these types of games, so that's why I always make this type of game. 

Here is a sample of the "who" question cards. 

And the last game includes a gameboard which you can use with any of your students as well as with the comprehension questions following the game in the pack. These cards require your students to pay attention auditorily to what you say about the picture, and then answer questions based on what you say. Here are those samples. I can't wait to get this printed and laminated tomorrow to use with my language groups on Thursday!

I hope you enjoy this product and would love to hear the fun fall activities you are doing with your students! I love the changing weather here in Iowa and I think it's always fun for students to play games that relate to the seasons to keep therapy sessions engaging! Leave me a comment to let me know what you think of this pack. 

App Review: ArtikPix

Adding Custom Flashcard Decks for Progress Checks

Do you ever get sick of all the different papers, flashcards, word lists, and more that you have out when working with your students? I definitely do! So this year, I decided that I want to utilize my iPad more in therapy, especially on data collection days! Hence, the review of ArtikPix!

I'll walk you through how you can create your own custom decks on this app so that you can also individualize therapy and data collection to suit your own needs. 

Click on "create" when you first open the app:

Then you'll be able to see all of your custom decks you've created, called "My Decks". As you can see, I've started a few for different students and also a sound-specific probe that I can use with multiple students (for all contexts of R).

To add a new deck click on "add" in the bottom right corner:

Then you'll give your new deck a title and you can add a picture if you want. I'm going to call mine J Probe for a student whose name starts with J. At the bottom I like to put which sounds the students' probes target: 

Now I'm going to walk you through how to create your custom cards. Follow the red text, arrows, and ovals below!

And now you've added your own custom card to your new deck! It's very simple once you get the hang of it and doesn't take much time at all to customize your students' decks! 

One drawback I did find, however, was when I was making my R list, I was unable to choose the sounds /pr/, /thr/, and /shr/ because those are not sounds the app currently has in their premade decks. I'll see if they can fix that next time they make some upgrades! Here's a peek at my R list I finished: 

 Let me know how you're using this app and if you find any other apps for articulation data collection particularly useful! 

Happy Speeching! 

Fall Fun /R/ Therapy and Homework Pack

Fall Fun /R/ Therapy and Homework Pack

I love fall weather here in Iowa, especially when the leaves start to change and the weather begins to cool! The cool weather we had last week inspired me to create some fall fun activities. I tried to think of what target I could use more therapy activities for, and I decided to create this /r/ pack! My favorite thing about this /r/ pack is that it targets not only initial, medial, final /r/, but it separates the vocalic /r/ sounds out into their specific contexts and all of the blends are also separated. Of course if you like to target initial, medial, final, you can combine the cards to meet your needs!

Here is the fall fun game to use with the flashcards, and also the Fall Fun Roll & Cover!

 Also included is a homework pack including a parent letter! I am HORRIBLE at consistently sending homework home with my students. I'd love to come up with a homework system someday in which I have all the homework assignments for my articulation students at hand and ready to grab from their folders at the end of their sessions, but that seems like such a daunting task that I haven't been able to mark that one off my to-do list! There's a parent letter to emphasize the importance of homework, specific 5-word R strips, one blank 5-word strip so you could use it with your other students too if you wanted, and a month's worth of daily calendar activities. 

Grab this Fall Fun Pack at my TPT store here! Leave a comment and let me know how you like it, or if there are things you'd like to see changed in the future with any of my products!

Also, ALL MY PRODUCTS ARE ON SALE UNTIL THURSDAY! CHECK OUT MY STORE HERE!

Fun in the Sun Plurals

Back to School Doesn't Mean Back to the Cold (Yet!)

Since last April I've not posted one single thing on here or even made any fun materials. Total SLACKER! Hopefully as the school year gets started and I get back into the groove of things, I will be much better about getting materials made and posting ideas that I use in therapy, etc. 

With that comes something I made last spring and never posted to my TPT store, Fun in the Sun Plurals. This summer themed regular plural game pack targets summer plural nouns. It's a fun game to use in therapy as the school year begins when you're talking with your students about what they did over the summer. It also might be nice to use in the winter when you're fighting those winter blues!

Grab it at my TPT store here!

The set includes regular plural flash cards for teaching sessions:

 It also includes 4 different Bingo Boards with a separate calling card page!

All you need is to print, laminate, cut, and play a fun Bingo Game to help teach your students regular plural nouns!

Ice Cream Cows Articulation for /k/, /g/, /s/blends, /s/ and /z/

Hello friends! Sorry for the delay in posting to my blog. I'm hoping to get into a better routine of adding posts to my blog as the year winds down, but I shouldn't make any promises! I finally finished the rest of my Ice Cream Cows Articulation pack for K, G, S-blends, S, and Z. Check it out here on my TPT store!

I've used this set with two different games that are included in this articulation pack. The first game is Scoop the Scoops. To play, grab a set of the sun cards, their target sound ice cream scoops, and put them facedown on the table or in a grab-bag. They're trying to collect the most scoops to put in their cone to win the game. But watch out for the sun! It will melt their scoops and they'll have to put one or two scoops back into the pile! It's a great game to keep the students engaged and it keeps some competition running wild in my speech room! I always play with my students and it makes therapy so much fun!

 The last game included in this set is a board game that can be glued and laminated to a file folder for durability. Grab these cute games in my articulation set of Ice Cream Cows at my TPT store! Enjoy!

Free Beach Games!!!

Sorry for the delay in posts, but my life has been nothing short of crazy these days! Work has been super busy and Adam and I are preparing some trips coming up in the months of May and June. In these dreary, cold, rainy days in Iowa, I've got my mind on the beaches of Mexico! That's our big trip in June where my brother is having a destination wedding! So, I made some beach games for those of you out there who are also dreaming of warmer, sunnier weather! Grab them over at my TPT store here!

I love using the Roll and Cover themed games with my articulation students. I have them roll the die on their turn, then say their word that many times before they get to cover up that number. It's such a quick and easy game and doesn't distract too much from the goal of each therapy session. You can play with as many students as you want! Here's a sample:

Who doesn't love a good old-fashioned mini board game? My students love a little competition to see who can get to the finish-line first. This game-board is based on who can build a sandcastle first. Watch out for the crabs, though. They'll pinch you and you'll have to move back two spaces.

Feel free to leave a comment and let me know how your students are liking the beach themed game-boards! Also, check out my other blog I share with another awesome SLP, Courtney: TheTalkingOwls! Courtney has posted some amazing materials on that blog and you can grab them on her TPT store!

Beach Verb Grammar Set

Check out my latest TPT material that I spent my Saturday evening making while my husband was busy watching basketball! I always find that I don't have enough materials targeting those stubborn verb tenses that so many of my language impaired students struggle with. Grab it at my TPT store! 

Check out the cute cards with shells and cute action verb clipart which I got from MyCuteGraphics.com. The pictures below show you what the target cards and answer cards look like for the 3rd person singular verbs!

And here is one of the three buckets your students can use to collect their shells! 

I hope you enjoy this fun grammar game in preparation for fun in the sun this summer!

Leave me a comment below! :)

~Lauren <3