"Social Pragmatic Language Activity Packet" Product Swap and Giveaway

Do I have something fun for you today! I'm doing a giveaway with Tatyana Elleseff from Smart Speech Therapy LLC.  Tatyana is a bilingual SLP with a full time hospital affiliation as well as private practice in New Jersey. She specializes in working with multicultural, internationally and domestically adopted as well as at-risk children with complex communication and language disorders. 

The product I'm reviewing today is her Social Pragmatic Language Activity Packet. If you work with children on the spectrum or have kids with goals for inferencing or reasoning, you NEED to go get this product. Now. 

There are 30 jam-packed pages of awesomeness. The pictures and questions are presented in a hierarchy ranging from basic social situations to more ambiguous and abstract situations. Most scenarios are suitable for ages 8-9, but can be used as young as age 6. The SLP will need to use his/her own discretion in selecting the appropriate scenarios for your students' ages. 

Areas covered by the questions:

1. Recognizing Emotional Reactions

2. Explaining Facial Expressions

3. Making Predictions

4. Making Inferences (re: people, locations, thoughts, feelings, and actions)

5. Multiple Interpretations (of actions and settings)

6. Interpersonal Negotiations

7. Sympathy/Empathy

8. Peer Relatedness (Support)

9. Interpreting Ambiguous Situations

10. Problem Solving

11. Determining Solutions

12. Determining Causes

13. Determining Perspectives

14. Social Judgment

15. Safety Rules 

In addition to questions that cover the topics listed above, some scenarios also contain short stories with additional questions that focus on auditory memory, processing, and comprehension. That's an average of 10-20 questions per picture!

So why do I love it?

• It is so versatile! Like I said above, this product would work wonderful for students with Autism who need extra help in social situations and figuring out emotions. But that's not all- the questions also lend themselves to inferencing and problem solving skills. The extra questions provided through the short stories target vocabulary, higher level reasoning, and comprehension.  
• Your students get the opportunity to answer every kind of WH- question in almost every question set.
• The hierarchy from explicit to more abstract situations provides a nice progression for my students. They were able to get the hang of the skills in the simpler scenarios before moving on and building onto their skill set in the later pictures. 
• The photos strike up quality conversation. With these photos and questions, it is easy to spend two or more sessions on just one picture, especially with the more abstract scenarios.  
• I can use it with my middle school students- what's not to love about more materials for that population!?

Enter the giveaway below for a chance to win this product yourself! If you just can't wait, you can find this product in Tatyana's store here for $14.99. But that's not all- Tatyana is doing a review of my product "Winter Nonfiction Leveled Reading Passages and Questions". You'll have a chance to win my product over on her blog!

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Hold Your Horses! A Figurative Language Game

Hoooooold your horses people! I've got the perfect product for you: a figurative language activity that focuses on idioms, metaphors, and similes!

There's a handy anchor chart that you can use with your students that give definitions of an idiom, simile, and metaphor. 

I've included 24 different idiom, simile, and metaphor cards! That's 72 cards in all! Mix all the cards together and have your students decide if the sentence(s) is an idiom, simile, or metaphor. Or, keep the cards separate, or mix together if you choose, and have your student explain the meaning of the figurative language being used. 

I've also included a two page game board. Simply roll the dice and move around the game board, collecting points as you go! 

And to keep track of those points, you can use these score sheets!

If you're in need of a new figurative language activity, check out "Hold your Horses" here! How do you target figurative language?

I "Mustache" you a Question...Can you Sequence?

There are many kiddos on my caseload this year who are working on sequencing. I was having trouble finding exactly what I wanted, so I decided to create my own! 

This product contains a total of 66 sequencing sets! There are 36 color coded sequencing card sets (12 sets each of 3, 4, and 5 step sequences). Each sequence is a different colored mustache to make sorting the cards a little easier. Below is an example of some 3 step sequences.

There are also 30 sequencing stories, 5 each for 3-8 steps. Read aloud, or have the students read, the story and sequence the steps to the story. Below is an example of the 3 step sequence stories. 

If this looks like something you could use, head on over to my TpT store and check it out!

How do you target sequences in therapy?

Love it and List it Linky: Vocabulary Activities

This month I'm linking up with Jenna over at Speech Room News for her "Love it and List it Linky: Vocabulary Activities!"

Jenna has asked us all to let you in on our favorite vocabulary activities, so here we go!

1. Word Feast Elementary and Word Feast Middle School. I recently purchased these and am enjoying using them in therapy! They are great to work on building vocabulary through reading activities, and includes everything from antonyms/synonyms, predicting, associations, finish the thought, and yes/no questions. 

2. I have also recently purchased The Bridge of Vocabulary. This book is wonderful! The book is broken down by grade level and includes literally hundreds of different activities and worksheets to use with your students.

3. Unfortunately, I don't have the wonderful EET program that many other bloggers and SLPs are using. I have, however, found a great alternative! It is a Language Therapy Program by Speech Chick. I haven't purchased the entire program yet, but I am using the worksheets included in the free download and I can already see a difference with my students. 

Head over to Speech Room News to check out what other SLPs are using to target vocabulary. What are your favorite products to use?

What Does it Mean? Vocabulary Graphic Organizer {FREEBIE!}

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I have many students on my caseload this year working on vocabulary. I recently purchased Linguisystems' Word Feast Middle School (I plan to do a blog post on why I love it, so if you're curious stay tuned!), and I needed a way to organize all those new vocabulary words my students are learning! I couldn't find exactly what I wanted, so I decided to create my own. 

My graphic organizer includes space for the vocabulary word, definition, part of speech, synonyms, antonyms, and a space to write a sentence using that vocabulary word. 

Check it out below, and head over to my Teachers pay Teachers store to get this FREEBIE for yourself!

Language Boxes for Older Students

If your caseload is anything like mine, it is chocked full of language goals. And if your students are anything like mine, they get bored. Fast. And the one thing that they love that will keep them interested is a game. I know, I know. You're probably thinking, not another game! (Because trust me, I was!) The thought of pulling out the game pieces, a generic game board my students have seen hundreds of times, and that electronic spinner that all the kids love so much (and I've loved to hate) makes me want a shot. Of caffeine of course :)

So I bring you back to the good old game of my childhood- the box game! (for the lack of a better name. If you know the actual name of this game I would love to know it!) The premise is simple, you have a grid of equally spaced dots that players take turns connecting to form a box. The part that makes this game fun is the strategy involved- draw too many lines of the same box and your opponent can complete it and claim it as their own! 

Add in some language goals and you have yourself a fun, exciting, and simple game that will hold your students' attention while they practice their IEP goals.

This 19 page download features:

• 3 pages of synonym/antonym boxes (90 total words)
• 2 pages of categories (60 total categories)
• 2 pages of multiple meaning words (60 total words)
• 1 page of homonyms (30 total pairs)
• 2 pages of associations (60 total pairs) 
• one blank page 
• answer key for synonyms/antonyms and multiple meaning words 

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You can find this product here! If you download, be sure to leave me some feedback. Not only does it let me and other potential buyers know how well you like my product, you also earn TpT credits to use towards future products!