lesson plans

    How many of you plead for one more minute when the alarm clock goes off?  This is the feeling that students sometimes feel when their break is over. They want to extend it by a little bit. We need to teach students how…

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…

  In class I am using  “Text Talk”.  This program delivers direct vocabulary instruction of sophisticated words, combined with rich talk about text, to provide students with critical language and reading comprehension skills. This scientifically based program has been proven effective in raising students’ knowledge…

  Each year I establish the “rules” of my lesson using Whole Brain Teaching developed in 1999 in the small Southern California town of Yucaipa by  three instructors, Chris Biffle (college), Jay Vanderfin (kindergarten) and Chris Rekstad (4th grade). They spent a year designing a…

Date:                                                    Session :  Lesson Plan                                    Client Initials:   I have added the document here so that you can download and save it. Lesson Plan Baseline level of performance Goal:. Materials: Procedure: Data:     Observations/Behavior:  This is the format that I would like you…

    Each year I chose a classic story and use that has the basis of my lessons. I  feel that it is important that our children learn the classics and not just the Disney versions of stories. So much of our literature is part…

This is it. You finally have your first clinical assignment.  A multitude of feelings come over you, excitement about finally being able to “do” the task that you have been putting so much academic effort into, anxiety about what your client will be like, the…