Apple Articulation Giveaway!

Apple week is underway in my speech room! I thought this would be the perfect time to share my latest NO PREP creation - Apple Articulation!

This packet addresses early and later developing sounds in the initial and final position! It also includes pages for /s/ blends, /r/ blends, and /l/ blends (a page for each blend and a combo page)! This morning I printed all the pages I needed for the week in a blink of an eye! Gotta love fun activities that save precious time. This packet is already a big hit!

Here's a peek:

My students are also getting a kick out of the visual cues near the top of the page! There's a picture depicting tongue/lip placement for each speech sound! Today we used crayons, but the next time I bust out these sheets we will use bingo daubers! If you're interested in this packet, you can find it in my TPT store by clicking HERE. I love making repetitive drills fun for my students. :)

It's been forever since my last blog giveaway, so I'd thought I'd share the apple love! Just enter the rafflecopter below for FIVE chances to win! Raffle begins on Tuesday and will end on Sunday!

If interested in more NO PREP fall and apple themed articulation packets, you can check out my blog posts from last year. Just click HERE and HERE to preview my color, cut, and glue articulation packets.

Thanks for stopping by my blog! Have a wonderful day!

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Halloween Articulation (Plus Giveaway!)

I don't know what it is exactly, but I've always loved Halloween! I love the costumes, the haunted houses, the spooky hayrides, and the endless reruns of Hocus Pocus! Not surprisingly, I love spooky speech! October is my absolute favorite month for speech therapy, because I get to read tons of my favorite books (Room on the Broom, Hallo-wiener, Where's My Mummy, and more!) and invite a few cute monsters into my speech room! I've also made a gajillion therapy resources, because I just love this time of year so much!

Last year, I hosted a couple giveaways to share my Halloween color, cut, and glue articulation activities. You can peek the early and later developing sounds HERE or the blends packets HERE. I have also updated all five of last year's Halloween packets too! So if you scooped them up last year, please download them to get 2-3x more word options!

I also made a couple more Halloween articulation packets (I couldn't help myself! haha), so I'd love to host a giveaway again this year too! I hope you're ready for some spooky speech!

Witch's Articulation Brew

This is seriously, one of the cutest packets I've ever made! It's full of darling little witches and their articulation brew! Students will absolutely fall in love with these spooky sweethearts! This packet contains all early and later developing sounds (in the initial and final positions), as well as, consonant blends (/r/ blends, /s/ blends, and /l/ blends). Best of all? It includes a visual cue on each page to show students their lip and tongue placements for each sound! This makes these sheets ideal for homework too! Parents will find this feature very helpful. While students wait for their turn to engage in repetitive drills they can color these sheets or students can use bingo daubers/dot markers with these activities! Here's a peek:

Halloween Articulation Gumballs

Kids love monsters. Fact. Seriously, monsters are super fun and kids love them! These monster gumball machines are surrounded by articulation gumballs! All early & later sounds are featured in the initial and final positions and consonant blends are featured! This packet is a great way to tackle multiple sounds in a group while still having your students do the same activity. You can use this packet in a variety of ways, one session use crayons and the next use bingo daubers/markers/etc. Here's a peek:

If interested, you can find ALL of my Halloween resources HERE. I have 19 Halloween items. Clearly, I'm obsessed. haha

You can enter the rafflecopter below for FIVE chances to win these two packets! Thank you for visiting my blog! Have a wonderful day!

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Apple Themed Lesson Plans

Fall is in the air. I've already busted out my boots and I'm geared up for one of my favorite seasons in speech therapy! Leaves, apples, scarecrows, and Halloween, oh my! I just love this time of year. This week is going to be apple week in therapy! If you're new to my blog, I have a little series called "A Slice of Speech" where I share a little slice of my speech room in the form of visual lesson plans! Stop by each Sunday to get a "slice." :)

Last week we had so much fun with our pirate theme! You can read more about the resources I used for that here. One of my favorite books that meshes pirates and apples is If You Give a Dog a Donut by Laura Numeroff. I adore her If You Give a.. series! I read this book to my now first and second graders last year, so I'll be using this book with my kindergarteners only. My first and second graders will be using Queen's Speech's Autumn Apples packet. It includes a ton of activities - mini book companions, irregular plurals, describing, and more!

Expressively, we will continue our work with the EET and describe apples, applesauce, apple juice, and more! (*note to self - stop at Kroger before work!!) I love the graphic organizers included in the Autumn Apples packet! We will also be comparing different types of apples and apple foods. Receptively, we will practice following conditional directions (perfect for a If You Give a... book!), answering comprehension questions, and working on understanding spatial concepts using my If You Give a Dog a Donut Book Companion.

My articulation kids will be using my latest Apple Articulation packet! I'm super excited about these little activities! We'll use crayons, colored pencils, and bingo daubers to complete them! We will also throw together an easy-peasy apple craft! I have a bunch of die-cut apples, so we will glue our articulation words onto the apples! My fluency students will continue learning about stuttering and practicing light contacts with my September fluency packet.

I'll be giving some homework this week too. I'll send home some grammar pages, printables from the book companion, and some apple articulation sheets too!

If you would like to download these visual lesson plans just click HERE. You can find each resource by clicking the picture!

You can also take a peek at apple week from last year by clicking HERE. We had bushels of fun! haha

Do you have an apple week in your speech room? Which resources/books do you use? Please leave a comment and let me know!

Thank you for visiting my blog! Have a wonderful day!

When the Leaf Blew In (Freebie!)

Wild About Books Wednesday is FINALLY back and just in time for one of my favorite seasons - fall! The beginning of the school year has been so hectic and I'm finally getting a spare moment to resurrect my little blog series. If you're new around here, each Wednesday I'll be sharing a book and discussing ways that you can use it to enhance speech and language! Literacy is one of my greatest passions in life and I love taking a literature-based approach to therapy. I have lots planned, so make sure you stop by each Wednesday!

Today, I'm discussing one of my favorite little fall books - When the Leaf Blew In by Steve Metzger. I also whipped up a little freebie for you!

This is such a fun story! A leaf blows into barn and it sets off a huge series of events! It causes the cow to sneeze, which causes a spider to fall on an owl, which causes the owl to swoop out of the barn, and so on. There are a million ways to utilize this little book. Here are a few ideas:

1) Cause & Effect - Every action in this book causes another action to occur! It is the PERFECT book for teaching cause & effect.
2) Verbs - This book is overflowing with action words! Examples from the book include sneezed, hopped, leaped, swooped, etc.
3) Past Tense - All of the verbs are in past tense, which makes this book the perfect learning tool! You can target irregular (blew, spun, etc) or regular past tense (sneezed, hopped, etc)
4) Farm Vocabulary - I love a good farm theme! This book contains a cow, pig, goat, duck, dragonfly, and so much more! A great way to expose children to animal vocabulary.
5) Story Retelling - The chain of events in this story makes it an ideal book for teaching sequencing! I created a little freebie for story retelling. It's a little book that students can assemble. On each page they will complete the sentence by drawing the event. For instance, "When the leaf blew in the cow..." then the student is to draw a picture of a cow sneezing. Here's a peek:

If you're interested in this little freebie you can scoop it up by clicking HERE.

Have your read this book? I'd love to share your ideas in the comments! Also, if you're a fellow blogger please feel free to link up with your own ideas! Just link back to me using the picture below:

Have a wonderful Wild About Books Wednesday! I hope to see you next week too! :)

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Pirates Go to Speech!

Ahoy, me hearties! It's time to roll out the pirates! Talk Like a Pirate Day is September 19th and I always love to incorporate it into speech and language therapy. Themes really spice things up and pirate week is one of my favorite times of the school year! I decided to round up some fun resources that I'll be using next week and share them with you! I'm also linking up with Tracy at The Gold Country SLP for her "Talk Like a Pirate Linky Party."

First up, I'll be reading one of my favorite pirate themed books, How I Became a Pirate by Melinda Long. My students loved the activities from my book companion last year! It contains some fun card games and NO PREP resources too! You can find it in my TPT store HERE.

You can also read my blog about it HERE to get a bigger preview!

A fourth of my September: Articulation Game Boards packet features pirate themed games! I'll definitely be printing off these NO PREP goodies for all of my articulation groups next week! Other themes in this packet include apples, fall, and back to school! Here's a peek at a few of them:

Similarly, my September: Apraxia on the Go packet has some pirate fun too! If you follow me on Instagram you saw this picture already!

I also have a couple pirate themed activities in my September: A Dab of Speech and Language packet! Although it is mainly a school themed pack, it does contain a "dab" of pirates! :)

I also found some fantastic pirate freebies to use next week!

Panda Speech has some Pirate Themed Category Cards!

The Speech Peach has some NO PREP Pirate Speech Seeks! Super fun!

What are your favorite pirate books and resources?! Please leave a comment below and let me know! I'd love to add to my Pirate toolbox! Don't forget to check out The Gold Country SLP's linky for more ideas!

Thank you for visiting! Have a wonderful day!

Spin-Go Articulation!

Spinner games are all the rage in my speech room right now! It's amazing how much fun a kid can have with just a paperclip and a colored pencil!

I created a little game called "Spin-Go" for my therapy room! It's super fun and perfect for the preschool and primary crowd. A student spins the spinner and then practices the word that they land on. After they practice their word they get to color the matching picture and then they repeat! When they color five pictures in a row, they get spin-go! It's a great game to elicit tons of repetitive drills and it also keeps your students engaged as they wait to work one-on-one with you!

I love having a wide variety of NO PREP games and activities in my toolbox! Life as a school-based SLP is very hectic and I don't always have time to print, cut, and laminate every single activity. So of course, I had to have these games for all themes and occasions!

Currently, I have Back To School, Zoo, and Farm themes! I have many more themes planned so I went ahead and created a growing bundle. It's currently 50% off until more packets are added.

Spin-Go Articulation: A Growing Bundle

Here's a little peek into the various themes:

Spin-Go: Zoo Articulation

This packet contains a variety of zoo animals such as: lions, hippos, giraffes, zebras, pandas, monkeys, gorillas, and more! These games can be used year around or during a zoo/animal theme!

This is also a great way to introduce students to zoo vocabulary! They can practice their articulation and learn about the zoo at the same time. 

There's also a farm version!

Spin-Go: Farm Articulation

This little packet contains pigs, dogs, sheep, horses, cows, and other farm creatures! Here's a peek:

I have many more of these packets planned and TONS of new words are coming to future packets. If you purchase the year long bundle the following packets are guaranteed: fall, winter, christmas, spring, St. Patrick's Day, Easter, and summer! The upload limit on Teachers Pay Teachers is 200 MB and IF I have space left I'll try to include some bonus themes also! I'm crossing my fingers that one of my favorite clip artists creates some Halloween spinners soon! :)

Have you tried spinner games yet? My students love them, because they're novel and fun! Also.. I secretly felt like Macgyver when I first showed my students how to use a paperclip and pencil to spin these spinners! haha

Thanks for visiting! Have a wonderful day!

A Slice of Speech (Lesson Plans for August 31, 2015)

It's Sunday and that means another evening of lesson planning! My first full week back was absolutely exhausting! Seriously, I took a three hour nap yesterday and I'm still sleep deprived. haha

If you're new to my blog, each Sunday during the school year I share my visual lesson plans. You can download them and click the pictures to find the resources I'll be using! Many of my favorite teacher bloggers share their visual lesson plans each Sunday and I thought it was such a neat idea!

My students absolutely adored The Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books by Lucille Colandro last week! I was hoping to use one of my new book companions I bought during the BTS sale this coming week, but didn't have any time to prep this weekend! Oh well... there's always next week! Between napping and working on some new products, my weekend went by so fast! So, I'm definitely all about the NO PREP this coming week.

I'll be busting out the EET and bingo daubers this week! We will be using my "dab and describe" pages, dabbing pronouns, and using the compare/contrast sheets from September: A Dab of Speech and Language! September, already?! I'll be tackling receptive language with some of my favorite Super Duper products - WH Bingo and their Magnetalk Barrier game! We will be focusing on following directions and answering questions!

My speech kids will be "spinning" all week with Back to School Spin-Go! I bought a brand new case of colorful paperclips to prepare! (My speech room was totally out of paperclips due to the popularity of my "spin and dab" pages last school year. I always let my students take paperclips with them so they can use them at home. It's crazy how fast your paperclips disappear when you do that! haha). Just a little bit about these games. Basically, a student spins the spinner and practices the word that they land on and then colors the word. They repeat the process and once they color five in a row they get Spin-Go! Well, I liked the game so much and I knew how much my students loved spinner games last year so I made a Back to School version... and then a farm version.. and then a zoo version. haha I decided to just post a growing bundle, because when I find a resource I like I want it for all seasons/occasions. Kinda of like shoes.. why do I want them in every color? #hoarder If interested, just click the link to view a preview and get more details. It's currently 50% off.

If you would like to snag my visual lesson plans, just click HERE. I hope these lesson plans will be useful! I hope you have a marvelous week. Thanks for visiting!

Back To School Lesson Plans

"A Slice of Speech" is back! It's a whole new year, which means a whole new batch of lesson plans! Each Sunday, I will be sharing what I have planned for the upcoming week and my visual lesson plans. If interested, you can download my plans and just click on the pictures to be sent to the resource. They're super convenient! I got this idea from some of my favorite teacher bloggers, I love technology! :)

My paperwork is in order, I have my schedule figured out (until someone inevitably throws a monkey wrench my way haha), and I'm ready to start a whole new year of therapy! I've been spending the summer creating new resources and collecting new toys. To say I'm excited about a  new year is an understatement! I'm rip-roaring and ready to go!

This is one of the most critical weeks of the school year! While IEP goals will be at the forefront, I'll be spending a great deal of time establishing routines, procedures, and expectations for my room. One of my favorite activities for establishing routines in my articulation groups are color, cut, and glue activities. I've mentioned this before, but I cannot handle students sitting around waiting for their turn. My students have to be engaged at all times.. the last thing I want is a bored student who is off-task and distracting others. My articulation groups will be learning the routines of coloring, cutting, and gluing using my Back to School Articulation packet. This routine is super important, as it's also the same routine for many crafts that we will do this year. I have one student with apraxia and some phono kids, they'll be using my August Apraxia On the Go cut and paste activities!

My language students will be introduced to The Old Lady! We will read There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books by Lucille Colandro and tackling our language goals! We'll be working at lot of sequencing, temporal directions, and more! I'll also be busting out Braidy the Storybraid for the first time ever this week too! During our second session with the old lady, I'll introduce Braidy as a story retelling tool! So excited! This is a new tool for me and I'll definitely share my experiences with the kit later on. I still can't believe I was approved to make such a large purchase. I'm definitely lucky!

You can download my visual lesson plans by clicking HERE.

By the way, my book companion for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books will be a flash freebie all week long! If you snag it, please leave some feedback love! I hope it will help you with back to school planning - enjoy!

Thank you for visiting my blog! Have a wonderful evening!

Back to School Boost: TPT Shining Stars Linky Party!

I'm super relieved that Teachers Pay Teachers has decided to do a one-day Back to School Boost Sale on August 19th! There's still so many things that I need for the school year! I'm linking up with Jen over at The SLPrunner to share some items that I believe are shining stars!

One of my favorite items is also my best-seller! Back to Speech: NO PREP Activities is a comprehensive packet that is designed for the first month of school.

It's no surprise, I adore NO PREP activities! I just counted and I have 103 NO PREP listings in my store (including bundles)! What can I say? I love to print n' go! haha.. Over the summer I added to my collection with two new series: Fluency In a Snap and Apraxia On the Go! These are both growing bundles (new packets will be added each month) so they are marked down by 50% until I add in the October packets. These are new, but already two of my favorites! The boost sale is the last time they'll be at their absolute lowest price.

Apraxia On the Go for the YEAR

Use the TPT code: MORE15 and you'll receive an additional 28% off of this already discounted item. That comes out to only $2.16 a month.

Fluency In a Snap for the YEAR

These packets are going to be all about stuttering. I'm super excited about all the things I have planned for this series. Scoop it up during the boost sale for the best possible savings! It averages out to just $1.20 per packet, so it will be a great opportunity to add to your stuttering collection.

Here are some more shining stars that I recommend!

Articulation Word Wall by Nicole Allison

I have a giant white wall that needs some color! This word wall will be perfect and I love her line of functional decor!

Dotting Silly Sentences by Speech Therapy with Courtney Gragg

I'm a huge fan of Courtney's therapy materials, so I know this will be a shining star!

How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World: Book Companion by Lindsey Karol

I was lucky enough to review this companion over the summer! I fell in love with the book and Lindsey's companion!

Enjoy the Back to School Boost on August 19th! My entire store will be 28% off when you use the TPT Code: MORE15. I'll also be extending my sale on August 20th!

Thank you for visiting my blog! Have a wonderful day and don't forget to browse through Jen's linky to discover some more shining stars to brighten your school year! :)