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I am so grateful for all the support that my TPT store has had this year and I want to show a little bit of love. I will have a TPT gift card giveaway as part of a blog hop. I am a speech and language…

Are you igniting your student’s high order thinking skills or are you stuck at the basic recall of information questions? If you are attempting to create opportunities for Bloom’s Taxonomy of questions giving a range and depth to what we are requiring for students how are…

What do you think of when you think of popsicle sticks?  Does it bring up memories of enjoying a summer day with your friends while you ate a cool treat? Do you think of the pleasure of splitting a double pop to share with your…

Good children’s literature can be the vehicle to teach story grammar. I love ” The Scarecrow’s Hat” by Ken Brown to teach story sequencing as there is a very clear story sequence structure. ” The Scarecrow’s Hat” is a story in which the chicken  admires…

I love using literature to teach. It gives me a jumping off point to teach vocabulary and story grammar.   It Takes A Village by Jane Cowen-Fletcher Book Companion is a great story that is set in an African village.  Yemi is given the responsibility…

Recently a graduate student stated that they wanted to use a time timer but did not have one. Using a time timer is a great thing. It is visual. It clearly indicates the time for the person. HOWEVER, we don’t always have access to a…

As we have been working on our read aloud lesson plans as we go through the semester, what have you learned? If you have begun the lesson with students what has surprised you? What are some of the unique strategies that you have in place…

Baseline: the starting point of therapy The first thing that one does prior to beginning therapy is to take baseline information to determine the most appropriate goals you should develop. I am writing this blog as some clinicians are having difficulty writing these. The American…

  This year I wrote a grant for East Greenwich School system that helped support close reading strategies. The grant was from the Rhode Island Department of Education and it allowed staff from Frenchtown and Meadowbrook to be able to attend the Core Reading Institute…

When choosing a book for speech and language therapy you want to make sure that the text matches your student’s reading level.   There are several tools that you can use that will make this easier. Scholastic has a tool called Book Wizard: http://www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/ This will…